Word Summary
Bēthphagē: "house of unripe figs", Bethphage, a village on the Mount of Olives
Original Word: ΒηθφαγήTransliteration: Bēthphagē
Phonetic Spelling: (bayth-fag-ay')
Part of Speech: Proper Noun, Indeclinable
Short Definition: "house of unripe figs", Bethphage, a village on the Mount of Olives
Meaning: Bethphage -- "house of unripe figs", a village on the Mount of Olives
Strong's Concordance
Bethphage.
Of Chaldee origin (compare bayith and pag); fig-house; Beth-phage, a place in Palestine -- Bethphage.
see HEBREW bayith
see HEBREW pag
Thayer's Greek Lexicon
STRONGS NT 967: ΒηθφαγήΒηθφαγή (but Lachmann uniformly,
Treg. in Matt. and Mark and
R G in Matt.
Βηθφαγή (
Buttmann, 15;
Winers Grammar, 52 (51); cf.
Tdf. Proleg., p. 103); in
Matthew 21:1 Tdf. edition 7
Βηθσφαγή),
ἡ, indeclinable (from
בֵּית and
פַּג house of unripe figs),
Bethphage, the name of a country-seat or hamlet (Eusebius calls it
κώμη,
Jeromevillula), on the Mount of Olives, near Bethany:
Matthew 21:1;
Mark 11:1 R G Tr text
WH text, but
Tr marginal reading in brackets;
Luke 19:29. (
BB. DD. under the word.)