בית לחם

ביתלחם, בית·לחם

From Hebrew בֵּית לֶחֶם (bēṯ lɛ́ḥɛm, literally “house of bread”)

בית לחם • (beit lekhem)

1. Bethlehem, a city in the West Bank.

• → Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܒܝܬܠܚܡ (bitlḥm)
• → Classical Syriac: ܒܝܬ ܠܚܡ

Evidence for the Aramaic spelling בית לחם can be inferred based on the fact that the spelling ܒܝܬܠܚܡ can be found in the Syriac Aramaic version of the bible in Matthew 2^[1] as well as other parts of the book. The letters ܒܝܬܠܚܡ transliterate to ביתלחם.

ביתלחם, בית·לחם

From בֵּית (bet, “house of”) +‎ לֶחֶם (lékhem, “bread”). Alternatively may derive from the Mesopotamian Canaanite fertility god Laḫmu and his consort sister w:Lahamu,^[1] lahmo being the Aramaic word for "fertility".

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בֵּית לֶחֶם • (bet lékhem) f (Biblical Hebrew pausal form בֵּית לָחֶם)

1. Bethlehem (a city in the West Bank, Palestine, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus)

• → Arabic: بَيْت لَحْم (bayt laḥm) (see there for further descendants)
• → Aramaic: בית לחם (see there for further descendants)
• → Ancient Greek: Βηθλεέμ (Bēthleém) (see there for further descendants)

• H1035 in Strong, James (1979) Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible

• בית לחם on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he