Bethabara
Βηθαβαρὰ
Bethabara (Βηθαβαρὰ), mentioned in St. John's Gospel (1.28) as the place of our Lord's Baptism. It is placed by the Evangelist beyond Jordan,
i. e. on the eastern side of the river (comp. 10.40), perhaps identical with Beth-bara (Judges, 8.24), where was a ford, from which the place doubtless derived its name, equivalent to locus transitus.
(Reland, p. 626.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.