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Bethany (Greek: Βηθανία (Bethania), which is probably of Aramaic or Hebrew origin, meaning “House of figs" is a feminine given name derived from the Biblical place name, Bethany, a town near Jerusalem, at the foot of the Mount of Olives, where Lazarus lived in the New Testament, along with his sisters, Mary and Martha, [1] and where Jesus stayed during Holy Week before his crucifixion.
It was here that the Hebrews first crossed the Jordan under the leadership of Joshua when leaving Egypt, to enter the promised land. Bethabara means in Hebrew a house of passage, while Bethany means a house of ships, because ships were waiting to ferry people over the Jordan. The Bethany of Martha and Lazarus was a different place.
In his version of Eusebius' Onomasticon, the meaning of Bethany is defined as domus adflictionis or "house of affliction". Brian J. Capper writes that this is a Latin derivation from the Hebrew beth 'ani , or more likely the Aramaic beth 'anya , both of which mean "house of the poor" or "house of affliction/poverty", also semantically speaking ...
Mary of Bethany [a] is a biblical figure mentioned by name in the Gospel of John and probably the Gospel of Luke in the Christian New Testament. Together with her siblings Lazarus and Martha , she is described as living in the village of Bethany , a small village in Judaea to the south of the Mount of Olives near Jerusalem .
The father of her was duke of Syria and places maritime, and Martha with her sister possessed by the heritage of their mother three places, that was, the castle Magdalen, and Bethany and a part of Jerusalem. It is nowhere read that Martha had ever any husband nor fellowship of man, but she as a noble hostess ministered and served our Lord, and ...
The Jordanian side uses the names Al-Maghtas, Bethany beyond the Jordan and Baptism(al) Site, while the western part is known as Qasr al-Yahud.The nearby Greek Orthodox Monastery of St John the Baptist has a castle-like appearance (thus qasr, "castle"), and tradition holds that the Israelites crossed the river at this spot (thus al-Yahud, "of the Jews").
Bible translations into Hebrew primarily refers to translations of the New Testament of the Christian Bible into the Hebrew language, from the original Koine Greek or an intermediate translation. There is less need to translate the Jewish Tanakh (or Christian Old Testament ) from the Original Biblical Hebrew , because it is closely intelligible ...
Aenon marked on the 6th-century Madaba Map, marked as Ainon, where is now Sapsaphas.. Aenon (Ancient Greek: Αἰνών, Ainṓn), distinguished as Aenon near Salim, is the site mentioned by the Gospel of John John 3:23) as one of the places where John was baptising people, after baptizing Jesus in Bethany-beyond-the-Jordan.