Bethleem

Unadapted borrowing from Ancient Greek Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém). The confusion about vowel length is due to Christian tradition trying to keep the Greek stress on the ultima.

• Bēthleëm:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [ˈbeːtʰ.ɫe.ẽː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [ˈbɛt.le.em]
• Bēthlēēm:
  • (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [beːtʰˈɫeː.ẽː]
  • (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [betˈlɛː.em]

Bēthleëm or Bēthlēēm f sg (indeclinable)

1. alternative form of Bēthlehēmum
   • Late 4th century, Jerome [et al.], transl., edited by Roger Gryson, Biblia Sacra: Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem (Vulgate), 5th edition, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, published 2007, →ISBN, 2:1:

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

     And as Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judea during the reign of king Herod, lo wise men from the East came to Jerusalem

Indeclinable noun, with locative, singular only.

• 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(ɛ)m/, /ˈbɛdlɛm/

Bethleem

1. Bethlehem (a 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 23 February 2019.

From Latin Bēthleëm, from Ancient Greek Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém), from Hebrew בֵּית לֶחֶם (bet léchem)

Bethleem f

1. Bethlehem (a city in Palestine)
   • Analecta Angla Saxonica

     Eornostlīċe þā sē Hǣlend ācenned wæs on Iūdeseisċre Bethléém, on þǣs cyningum dagum Herodes, þā cōmon þā tungolwītegan fram ēastdǣle tō Hierusalem.

     Truly, the Savior was born in Jewish Bethlehem, in the days of King Herod, after which the Wise Men came to Jerusalem from the east.