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GreekG0966Noun

Βηθσαϊδά

Bēthsaida

7Occurrences
G0966Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

fishing-house; Bethsaida, a place in Palestine

of Chaldee origin (compare H01004 and H06719);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
and -δάν, ἡ, indecl. (Syr., house of fish), Bethsaida, a town on NE. shore of the Sea of Galilee. It is generally supposed that a second B. on the W. shore is referred to in.
2.Βηθζαθά, ἡ, indecl. (perh. Aram. בֵּית זַיְתָה, house of olives) .

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

N:N--L

Full Description

N:N--L

Occurrences

Βηθσαϊδά appears 7 times in the New Testament.

Distribution by Book

John
2
Luke
2
Mark
2
Matthew
1

Key Passages

John 1:44BSB

Now Philip was from Bethsaida, the same town as Andrew and Peter.

John 12:21BSB

They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested of him, “Sir, we want to see Jesus.”

Luke 10:13BSB

Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.

Luke 9:10BSB

Then the apostles returned and reported to Jesus all that they had done. Taking them away privately, He withdrew to a town called Bethsaida.

Matthew 11:21BSB

“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and ashes.

Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.