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/ˈbɛθɫɪˌhɛm/
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NOUN
- a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production
- a small town near Jerusalem on the West Bank of the Jordan River; early home of David and regarded as the place where Jesus was born
How To Use Bethlehem In A Sentence
- How, exactly, the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem came to involve at least one flying, no less ungulate with a photoluminescent proboscis, abominable snowmen, a Christmas elf yearning to be a dentist, not to mention more than one lobster... is a bit hard to fathom. David Katz, M.D.: Fatness, misFitness and the Right Kind of Island
- The second job of the priory was to act as a London home for the Bishop of St. Mary of Bethlehem.
- At Bethlehem College Preschool, caretakers live on the property and are thought to deter foot-traffic.
- There they settled in Bethlehem and established his and hers monastic houses.
- I preached the entire book as a dramatic monologue from the viewpoint of one of the elders of Bethlehem. Christianity Today
- There are not many olive wood carpentry shops left in the biblical city of Bethlehem. Times, Sunday Times
- There was nothing random, from the point of view of God's purposes, in the time of Naomi and Ruth's arrival in Bethlehem, for through following the harvesters as a gleaner, humbly gathering what was left behind; Ruth would find the kind man who would take her under his protection; a kinsman. God Made Me Contemplative
- According to the head of the Greek Orthodox parish for Bethlehem, Father Speridon, the mass was a reconsecration since the church marking the spot where Jesus was born had been desecrated during the siege.
- Founded in 1982, Aida girl school was aided by UN in Bethlehem's Aida refugee camp.
- Holy Innocents Day, also known as Childermas, commemorates King Herod's massacre of all male infants in and around Bethlehem under the age of two in attempt to kill the young Christ.
