Beth Lehem

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Beth Lehem is a transliteration of the Hebrew name commonly rendered as Bethlehem, an ancient town of major biblical and historical significance.

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Label Occurrences
Beth Lehem canonical 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf ancient town
biblical location
transliteration
appearsInBook 1 Samuel
Book of Ruth
Gospels
Micah
associatedWith King David
Naomi
Ruth
category Ancient Near Eastern cities
Biblical towns
Places in the Bible
distanceFromJerusalem about 8 kilometers south
etymologyComponent beth (house)
lechem (bread)
hasModernCounterpart Bethlehem
surface form: Bethlehem in the West Bank
hasNameForm Bethlehem
hasVariantSpelling Bethlehem
surface form: Beth-lehem

Bethlehem
surface form: Bethlehem of Judah
historicalPeriod Iron Age Levant
knownFor City of David archaeological area
surface form: City of David

birthplace of Jesus according to the New Testament
languageOfName Hebrew
locatedIn Judea
Ancient Israel
surface form: ancient Israel
locatedInModernEntity State of Palestine
locatedNear Jerusalem
meaning House of Bread
mentionedIn Tanakh
surface form: Hebrew Bible

New Testament
Bible
surface form: Old Testament
prophecyAssociatedWith Micah 5:2
region Levant region
surface form: Levant
religiousTradition Christianity
Islam
Judaism
roleInChristianity traditional birthplace of Jesus
roleInJudaism hometown of King David
scriptDirection right-to-left in Hebrew
traditionalSiteOf Church of the Nativity
surface form: Church of the Nativity (later Christian tradition)
transliterationOf Bethlehem
surface form: בֵּית לֶחֶם
typeOfSignificance biblical significance
historical significance
religious significance
writingSystem Hebrew alphabet

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House of Bread transliteration Beth Lehem