G964 – Bethesda – Βηθεσδά – Bethesda
- Strong’s ID:
- G964
- Greek Word:
- Βηθεσδά
- Transliteration:
- bēthesda / Bethesda
- Pronunciation:
- bay-thes-dah’
- Part of Speech:
- noun proper locative
- Usage Count:
- 1
- Search:
- Find “Bethesda” in the Bible (New Testament)
Strong’s Greek Lexicon
of Aramaic origin [compare H1004 and H2617]; house of kindness; Beth-esda, a pool in Jerusalem:—Bethesda.
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
Bethesda = “house of mercy” or “flowing water”
1) the name of a pool near the sheep-gate at Jerusalem, whose waters had curative powers
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.