How to Pronounce Bethsaida
behth-SAY-ih-duh
Bethsaida is pronounced behth-SAY-ih-duh (bɛθˈseɪədə): four syllables, stress on the second. Also heard: Beth-SAY-ih-dah, beth-SAY-uh-duh.
What does Bethsaida mean?
Bethsaida means “house of fruits, or of food, or of snares”.
Hitchcock’s Bible Names (1869), public domain.
Where was Bethsaida?
House of fish. (1.) A town in Galilee, on the west side of the sea of Tiberias, in the “land of Gennesaret.” It was the native place of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, and was frequently resorted to by Jesus (Mark 6:45; John 1:44; 12:21). It is supposed to have been at the modern ‘Ain Tabighah, a bay to the north of Gennesaret. (2.) A city near which Christ fed 5,000 (Luke 9:10; comp. John 6:17; Matt. 14:15-21), and where the blind man had his sight restored (Mark 8:22), on the east side of the lake, two miles up the Jordan. It stood within the region of Gaulonitis, and was enlarged by Philip the tetrarch, who called it “Julias,” after the emperor’s daughter.
Adapted from Easton's Bible Dictionary (1897), public domain.
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