G962 – Bethabara – Βηθαβαρά Bethabara

Strong’s ID:
G962
Greek Word:
Βηθαβαρά
Transliteration:
bēthabara / Bethabara
Pronunciation:
bay-thab-ar-ah’
Part of Speech:
noun proper locative
Etymology:
of Hebrew origin [ and ]
Usage Count:
1
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Bethabara

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Strong’s Greek Lexicon

of Hebrew origin [ and ]; ferry-house; Bethabara (i.e. Bethabarah), a place on the Jordan:—Bethabara.

Owing to changes in the enumeration while in progress, there were no words left for numbers 2717 and 3203–3302, which were therefore silently dropped out of the vocabulary and references as redundant.

Thayer’s Greek Definitions

Bethabara = “house of the ford”
1) a place beyond Jordan, where John was baptising. This may correspond to Bethbarah (fords of Abarah), the ancient ford of the Jordan on the road to Gilead

Thayer’s Definitions are as edited by the Online Bible of Winterbourne, Ontario. They removed the etymology, cross-references, and Greek phrases and changed some of Thayer’s Unitarian doctrinal positions concerning the work and person of Christ.