Bethesda

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Bethesda

Etymology

From Aramaic בֵּית חַסְדָּא (bēṯ ḥasdā, “House of Grace”).

Pronunciation

Proper noun

Bethesda

  1. (biblical) A pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.
  2. An unincorporated census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
  3. A village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States.
  4. A town and community in Gwynedd, Wales, historically in Caernarvonshire (OS grid ref SH6266). [1]
  5. A small village in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN0917).

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Noun

Bethesda (plural Bethesdas)

  1. (poetic) Any location whose waters are supposed to have curative properties.
    • 1903, Thomas De Witt Talmage, Richard S Rhodes, Evils of the cities:
      ...those who are afflicted with rheumatic, neuralgic, and splenetic diseases, go, and are cured by the thousands. These Bethesdas are scattered all up and down our country, blessed be God!
    • 1978, Garry Wills, Values Americans live by:
      Time was when this Bethesda too was curative, a sweet oasis in a parched and driven city. The day we went we found the fountain had been shut off.

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