• IPA: /ˈbɛθləhɛm/, /ˈbɛθlihɛm/

1. A city in West Bank, Palestine, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Matthew 2:1 ↗:

     Now when Ieſus was boꝛne in Bethlehem of Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the king, behold, there came Wiſe men from the Eaſt to Hierusalem,

2. A town in Free State, South Africa.

• French: Bethléem
• German: Betlehem
• Italian: Betlemme
• Portuguese: Belém
• Russian: Вифлее́м
• Spanish: Belén

Bethlehem (plural Bethlehems)

1. (obsolete) A lunatic asylum.
2. (architecture) In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the Eucharist is made.