Bethleem

Bēthleëm

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbeːtʰ.le.em/, [ˈbeːtʰ.ɫe.ẽ]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbet.le.em/

Bēthlēēm

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /beːtʰˈleː.eːm/, [beːtʰˈɫeː.eːm]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /betˈle.em/, [betˈleː.em]

Bēthleëm or Bēthlēēm n (indeclinable)

1. Alternative form of Bēthlehēmum
   • 405, Jerome and others, Vulgate, Matthaeus 2:1

     cum ergo natus esset Iesus in Bethleem Iudaeae in diebus Herodis regis ecce magi ab oriente venerunt Hierosolymam

• Italian: Betlemme
• Portuguese: Belém
• Spanish: Belén

• Bēthleëm in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press

• Beðleem, Beþþleæm, Bedlem, Bedleem, Bedleme, Bethlehem, Betheleem

From Old French Betleem, from Latin Bēthlehēmum, Bēthleëm, from Ancient Greek Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém), from Hebrew בֵּית לֶחֶם‎ (bet léchem).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɛdleː(ə)m/, /ˈbɛdlɛm/

Bethleem

1. Bethlehem (city in Palestine)
2. (rare) Bethlem Royal Hospital

• English: Bethlehem, bedlam

• “Bedlẹ̄̆m, -lẹ̄em (n.)” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-02-23.