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Dec 24, 2020 · As mentioned at the end of the preceding quotation, Zinzendorf chose to name the new community Bethlehem both in relation to the setting of the Christmas holiday and the date but also because of the similar sounds of the Hebrew “lechem,” meaning bread, and “Lecha,” a Native American name for what is now the Lehigh River.
Dec 25, 2019 · Today, exactly 275 years after the city’s naming, Mack’s account endures, but the man behind the words seems to be lost to all but scholars and history buffs, while more familiar Moravian ...
- Nicole Radzievich
In Aramaic, the name of Bethlehem was simply the Hebrew name בית לחם, and was pronounced as Beit Lekhem. Evidence for this spelling can be inferred based on the fact that the spelling ܒܝܬܠܚܡ can be found in the Syriac Aramaic version of the bible in Matthew 2 [12] as well as other parts of the book. The letters ܒܝܬܠܚܡ ...
The Moravians eventually acquired close to 4,000 acres in Bethlehem. Bethlehem was to be the principal center for Moravians in the New World serving as both the religious and administrative center for the Moravian Church in North America. From here, they sent missionaries throughout the American colonies and to the West Indies.
Bethlehem, city, Northampton and Lehigh counties, eastern Pennsylvania, U.S. It lies on both sides of the Lehigh River and with Allentown and Easton forms an urban industrial complex. Founded in 1741 by Moravian missionaries, it received its name from a carol about Jesus Christ’s traditional
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Dec 19, 2022 · The slopes of Bethlehem’s surrounding hills and their adjacent fields provided fertile agricultural lands for harvesting wheat and barley (see Ruth 1:22; 2:1–3; and 4:11), which likely gave the village its Hebrew name, “House of Bread.” These sloping hills also contained terraced orchards of olive trees, exposed patches of limestone bedrock pocked with natural caves, and large ...
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Aug 23, 2023 · The original name, which persists today in English, essentially originates from the Hebrew words for "bread" and "house." Thus, according to the Christianity Magazine, the name "Bethlehem" means "house of bread." For Christians, the name recalls the title of its most famous native, Jesus Christ, even though it was called that before his birth.
