Bethania means “Bethany” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's H963 — bizzayon (“contempt”) in the Hebrew Bible.
Strong's G963 Βηθανία (Bethania) is a Greek Strong's word-study entry. Bethania (bay-than-ee'-ah) n/l. 1. date-house 2. Beth-any, a place in Israel It has 12 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include bethany. Indexed coverage on this page includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
Bethania (bay-than-ee'-ah) n/l. 1. date-house 2. Beth-any, a place in Israel [of Chaldee origin] KJV: Bethany
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Bethany
Usage: Βηθανία, -ας (also -ιά, indecl., Luk.19:29 and in B*, Mrk.11:1), ἡ, (Heb. בֵּית עֲנִיָּה, house of affliction, accusative to Jerome, or perh., house of dates, cf. Bethphage), Bethany; __1. a village fifteen furlongs from Jerusalem, the modern El Azerîyeh: Mat.21:17 26:6, Mrk.8:22 (WH, mg.) 11:1, 11, 12 14:3 Luk.19:29 24:50, Jhn.11:1, 18 12:1. __2. A place on E. bank of Jordan: Jhn.1:28 (R, mg., Βηθαβαρά, which see). † (AS)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Bethania, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
Strong's G963 (Βηθανία) appears 1 time in the Greek Septuagint — the Old Testament the New Testament authors quoted.
Sample Septuagint occurrences:
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11 indexed usages in New Testament.
And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,
1 indexed usage in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The name of the one, Pishon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
First 12 linked usage excerpts for Strong's G963.
The name of the one, Pishon, this it is which encircles the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold.
And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.
Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,
And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,
And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.
And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:
And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.
And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,
And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.
Now a certain man was sick, named Lazarus, of Bethany, the town of Mary and her sister Martha.
Now Bethany was nigh unto Jerusalem, about fifteen furlongs off:
Then Jesus six days before the passover came to Bethany, where Lazarus was, which had been dead, whom he raised from the dead.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's G963, grouped by book.
Bethania (Strong's G963) is a Greek word most simply glossed "Bethany". Bethania (bay-than-ee'-ah) n/l. 1. date-house 2. Beth-any, a place in Israel
This page currently indexes 12 linked usages for Strong's G963 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's G963 in context. The indexed coverage includes New Testament and Septuagint / Greek Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as bethany. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.
Yes. The current local index includes 1 in Septuagint / Greek Old Testament for Strong's G963, with linked reader references where each row is available.