Lexical Summary Bēthphagē: "house of unripe figs", Bethphage, a village on the Mount of Olives Original Word: ΒηθφαγήTransliteration: Bēthphagē Phonetic Spelling: (bayth-fag-ay') Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable Short Definition: "house of unripe figs", Bethphage, a village on the Mount of Olives Meaning: Bethphage -- "house of unripe figs", a village on the Mount of Olives Strong's Concordance Bethphage. Of Chaldee origin (compare bayith and pag); fig-house; Beth-phage, a place in Palestine -- Bethphage. see HEBREW bayith see HEBREW pag Thayer's Greek Lexicon STRONGS NT 967: ΒηθφαγήΒηθφαγή (but Lachmann uniformly, Treg. in Matt. and Mark and R G in Matt. Βηθφαγή (Buttmann, 15; Winers Grammar, 52 (51); cf. Tdf. Proleg., p. 103); in Matthew 21:1 Tdf. edition 7 Βηθσφαγή), ἡ, indeclinable (from בֵּית and פַּג house of unripe figs), Bethphage, the name of a country-seat or hamlet (Eusebius calls it κώμη, Jeromevillula), on the Mount of Olives, near Bethany: Matthew 21:1; Mark 11:1 R G Tr text WH text, but Tr marginal reading in brackets; Luke 19:29. (BB. DD. under the word.) |
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