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Bethany (Greek: Βηθανία (Bethania), which is probably of Aramaic or Hebrew origin, meaning “House of figs" is a feminine given name derived from the Biblical place name, Bethany, a town near Jerusalem, at the foot of the Mount of Olives, where Lazarus lived in the New Testament, along with his sisters, Mary and Martha, [1] and where Jesus stayed during Holy Week before his crucifixion.
In his version of Eusebius' Onomasticon, the meaning of Bethany is defined as domus adflictionis or "house of affliction". Brian J. Capper writes that this is a Latin derivation from the Hebrew beth 'ani , or more likely the Aramaic beth 'anya , both of which mean "house of the poor" or "house of affliction/poverty", also semantically speaking ...
Mary of Bethany [a] is a biblical figure mentioned by name in the Gospel of John and probably the Gospel of Luke in the Christian New Testament. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Martha , she is described as living in the village of Bethany , a small village in Judaea to the south of the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem .
Martha appears again in John 12:1–8, where she serves at a meal held in Jesus' honor at which her brother is also a guest. The narrator only mentions that the meal takes place in Bethany, while the apparently parallel accounts in the Gospels of Matthew [13] and Mark [14] specify that it takes place at the home of one Simon the Leper. As the ...
Bethany is the name of two villages mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible: Bethany near Jerusalem, today known as Al-Eizariya which means "the place of Lazarus" Bethany (or Bethabara) beyond the Jordan, today known as Al-Maghtas .
A much larger, Federal-style, wooden courthouse was opened in 1817 on Bethany’s square. County officials, however, needed to better protect records, and in 1823 a brick structure was built in ...
Beth, a character in the Canadian-produced sitcom Learning the Ropes; Beth, a character in the Canadian teen drama television series Madison; Beth, a character in the 2005 American romantic comedy movie The 40-Year-Old Virgin
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