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Koine Greek wordlink #534

SR GNT Mat 2:5 Βηθλέεμ (Baʸthleem) ‘said to him in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) of Youdaia thus for’ Strongs=9650 Lemma=bēthleem
Word role=proper noun case=dative gender=feminine number=singular
Location=Bethlehem Year=-4 TimeSeries=Wise_Men_Visit_Herod

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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

OET-LV: 2 And the Yaʸsous having _been _born in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) of_ the _Youdaia in the_days of _Haʸrōdaʸs the king, see, wise _men from east arrived in Hierousalaʸm/(Yərūshālayim) (MAT_2:1)

OET-RV: 2 After Yeshua had been born in Bethlehem in the province of Yudea during the time of King Herod, watchers of signs arrived in Yerushalem from the east (MAT 2:1)

Mat 2:16 ‘the boys in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) and in all’ SR GNT Mat 2:16 word 19

OET-LV: 16 Then Haʸrōdaʸs, having _seen that he _was _mocked by the wise _men, was _enraged exceedingly and having _sent _out, he _killed all the boys which in Baʸthleʼem/(Bēyt-leḩem) and in all the regions of _it from two _year and lower, according _to the time which he _ascertained from the wise _men. (MAT_2:16)

OET-RV: 16 When King Herod realised that he’d been tricked by the watchers of signs, he got very angry and gave orders that all the sons in Bethlehem and its districts that were two years old and younger be killed, because that was the period that he’d found out from the watchers of signs. (MAT 2:16)

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