Βήθλεμα - Stephanos Ethnika

Βήθλεμα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Βήθλεμα, πόλις Παλαιστίνης πρὸς τοῖς Ἱεροσολύμοις, οὐδετέρως [ἐν ᾗ γέγονεν ἡ κατὰ σάρκα γέννησις τοῦ θεοῦ καὶ σωτῆρος ἡμῶν]. Ἰώσηπος δέ φησιν “ἐκ Βηθλεεμῶν”. ἔστι δὲ πόλις τῆς Ἰούδα φυλῆς. ὁ πολίτης Βηθλεμίτης ὡς Ἱεροσολυμίτης.

Bethlema: a city of Palestine near Jerusalem, neuter [in which took place the birth according to the flesh of our God and Saviour]. Josephus says "from Bethleema". It is a city of the tribe of Judah. The citizen Bethlemites as 'Hierosolymites'.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#84
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 166.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-08
Word count	35

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.