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Koine Greek wordlink #838

SR GNT Mat 2:16 Βηθλέεμ (Baʸthleem) ‘the boys in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) and in all’ Strongs=9650 Lemma=bēthleem
Word role=proper noun case=dat gender=fem number=sg
Location=Bethlehem Referred to from Word #844

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Other uses (2) of identical word form Βηθλέεμ (N-dfs) in the Greek originals

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

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

Mat 2:1 ‘Yaʸsous/(Yəhōshūˊa) having_been born in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) of Youdaia in the days’ SR GNT Mat 2:1 word 6

Mat 2:5 ‘said to him in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) of Youdaia thus for’ SR GNT Mat 2:5 word 7

Key: N=noun dfs=dative,feminine,singular