Genesis 35:19
And Rachel died, and was buried in the way to Ephrath, which is Bethlehem.
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Bethlehem
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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?
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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
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And they took up Asahel, and buried him in the sepulchre of his father, which was in Bethlehem. And Joab and his men went all night, and they came to Hebron at break of day.
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And David was then in an hold, and the garrison of the Philistines was then in Bethlehem.
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And David longed, and said, Oh that one would give me drink of the water of the well of Bethlehem, which is by the gate!
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And the three mighty men 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: nevertheless he would not drink thereof, but poured it out unto the LORD.
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Asahel the brother of Joab was one of the thirty; Elhanan the son of Dodo of Bethlehem,
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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.
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