Bethlehem
Βαιθλεέμ
Bethlehem (Βαιθλεέμ, Βαιθμάν), a city of the tribe of Zebulun. (Josh. 19.15). The site and name are preserved in the modern village of Beitlahem, a few miles north of Nazareth, and eastward of Sephûrieh (formerly Diocaesarea).
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.