Bethlehem

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From Средњи Енглески Bethleem, Bedlem, from Стари Француски Bethleem, from Латински Bēthlehēmum, Bēthleëm, from Антички Грчки Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém), from Хебрејски בֵּית לֶחֶם (bēṯ léḥem, “house of bread”). Дублети of bedlam.

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈbɛθləhɛm/, /ˈbɛθlihɛm/

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Bethlehem

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   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Matthew 2:1:

     Now when Ieſus was boꝛne in Bethlehem of Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the king, behold, there came Wiſe men from the Eaſt to Hierusalem,

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Bethlehem (plural Bethlehems)

1. (obsolete) A lunatic asylum.
2. (architecture) In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the Eucharist is made.
   • 1869, John Baron, Anglosaxon witness on four alleged requisites for holy communion

     […] to the Hebrew and Arabic word “korban” as now used in the Abyssinian Church to denote the sacramental bread specially prepared in the “Bethlehem,” or “House of Bread.”

   • 1882, William Audsley, ‎George Ashdown Audsley, Popular Dictionary of Architecture and the Allied Arts (page 200)

     A small building, attached to Ethiopic churches, usually at the eastern end of the sacrarium, in which the deacon prepares and bakes the bread for use in the eucharist. This building is called the Bethlehem, or “house of bread.”

   • 2006, Geoffrey Wainwright, ‎Robert Earl Cushman, ‎Karen B. Westerfield Tucker, The Oxford History of Christian Worship (page 143)

     The deacon rings a bell when bread is brought from the bethlehem to the maqdas and at other liturgical times

   • 2014, Bryan D. Spinks, Do this in Remembrance of Me (page 174)

     The priests and deacons assigned to the service wash their feet and hands, usually near the 'Bethlehem'.

• bedlam
• Bethlem

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• Betlehem (superseded)

From Латински Bēthlehēmum, Bēthleëm, from Антички Грчки Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém), from Хебрејски בֵּית לֶחֶם (bet léchem, “house of bread”).

The hamlet is first attested as Bethlehem in 1502 and is named after a former monastery, which was named in turn after the city in Palestine.

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈbɛt.leːˌɦɛm/

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• Хифенација: Beth‧le‧hem

Bethlehem n

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• Betlehem

• МФА^(кључ): /ˈbeːt.ləˌhɛm/, /-ˌheːm/

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• Хифенација: Beth‧le‧hem

Bethlehem

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• () МФА^(кључ): /ˈbeːtʰ.le.hem/, [ˈbeːt̪ʰɫ̪e(ɦ)ɛ̃ˑ]
• () МФА^(кључ): /ˈbet.le.em/, [ˈbɛt̪leːm]

Bethlehem

1. Alternative form of Bēthlehēmum

• “Bēthlĕhem”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Bethlehem in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Hachette

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Bethlehem

1. Alternative form of Bethleem