Genesis 35:19
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
Read in context →DEEP KJV WORD STUDY
Bethlehem
Begin with the exact English word as it appears in the King James Bible. Follow its whole-Bible usage, book distribution, related indexed forms, Webster 1828, every occurrence, and the occurrence-specific Hebrew/Aramaic/Greek mappings behind it.
John 7:42
Hath not the scripture said, That Christ cometh of the seed of David, and out of the town of Bethlehem, where David was?
Read in context →1 Chronicles
7 occurrences in 7 verses.
Browse those occurrences →Where Bethlehem appears.
This is exact English-word usage from the canonical KJV token index, not a Strong's estimate.
Which Hebrew, Aramaic, or Greek words stand behind this KJV word?
These relationships come from exact verse + token-position mappings. We do not assume that one English spelling always equals one Strong's number. A single English token can also carry more than one source tag, so the Strong's-link total can exceed the number of English occurrences.
Βηθλεέμ
Bēthleém · bayth-leh-em'
8 times translated as this KJV form8 total Strong's occurrences
Bethleem (i.e. Beth-lechem), a place in Palestine
Strong's KJV usage: :--Bethlehem.
Strong's first: Matthew 2:1Strong's last: John 7:42
Open full G965 profile →Strong's data is a concordance/lexical reference layer. Scripture context controls interpretation. Lexical source data is shown separately from future TWBC editorial teaching.
Read the word in context.
7 occurrences match the current filters. Each row keeps its exact KJV token position so Original Word and TSK remain occurrence-specific.
no direct Strong's tag
Salma the father of Bethlehem, Hareph the father of Bethgader.
no direct Strong's tag
The sons of Salma; Bethlehem, and the Netophathites, Ataroth, the house of Joab, and half of the Manahethites, the Zorites.
no direct Strong's tag
And Penuel the father of Gedor, and Ezer the father of Hushah. These are the sons of Hur, the firstborn of Ephratah, the father of Bethlehem.
no direct Strong's tag
And David was then in the hold, and the Philistines' garrison was then at Bethlehem.
no direct Strong's tag
And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, that is at the gate!
no direct Strong's tag
And the three brake through the host of the Philistines, and drew water out of the well of Bethlehem, that was by the gate, and took it, and brought it to David: but David would not drink of it, but poured it out to the LORD,
no direct Strong's tag
Also the valiant men of the armies were, Asahel the brother of Joab, Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
English meaning and historical usage.
Dictionary data is kept visibly separate from Scripture and from lexical Strong's data.
bethlehem
BETH'LEHEM, noun [Heb. the house of food or bread.]
1. A town or village in Judea, about six miles south-east of Jerusalem; famous for its being the place of Christ's nativity.
2. A hospital for lunatics; corrupted into bedlam.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
Know what each layer is—and what it is not.
Curated TWBC teaching will remain a separate editorial layer. Raw source data is never silently rewritten to force a doctrinal conclusion.