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Koine Greek wordlink #38689

SR GNT Luke 2:4 Βηθλέεμ (Baʸthleem) ‘of Dawid/(Dāvid) which is_being called Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) because_of that to_be’ Strongs=9650 Lemma=bēthleem
Word role=proper noun case=nominative gender=feminine number=singular
Location=Bethlehem TimeSeries=Birth_of_Jesus

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Only use of identical word form Βηθλέεμ (N-NFS) in the Greek originals

The word form ‘Βηθλέεμ’ (N-NFS) is always and only glossed as ‘Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem)’.

(In the VLT, the word form ‘Βηθλέεμ’ (N-NFS) was always and only glossed as ‘Bethlehem’).

Luke 2:4 ‘of Dawid/(Dāvid) which is_being called Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) because_of that to_be’ SR GNT Luke 2:4 word 22

OET-LV: 4 And Yōsaʸf/(Yōşēf) went _up also, from the Galilaia/(Gālīl) out _of the_city of _Nazaret, to the Youdaia to the_city of _Dawid/(Dāvid), which is _being _called Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem), because _of that him to _be from the_household and family of _Dawid, (LUK_2:4)

OET-RV: 4 Because Yosef was a descendant of King David, he left the town of Nazareth in the Galilee region and went down to David’s town of Bethlehem in Yudea (LUK 2:4)

Key: N=noun NFS=nominative,feminine,singular