Bethleem

• Bēthleëm: (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈbeːtʰ.le.em/, [ˈbeːt̪ʰɫ̪eɛ̃ˑ]
• Bēthleëm: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈbet.le.em/, [ˈbɛt̪leːm]
• Bēthlēēm: (Classical) IPA^(key): /beːtʰˈleː.eːm/, [beːt̪ʰˈɫ̪eːeːm]
• Bēthlēēm: (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /betˈle.em/, [bet̪ˈlɛːem]

Bēthleëm or Bēthlēēm n (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

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• 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 2019-02-23.