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bethsaida |
2 definitions found From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: Bethsaida house of fish. (1.) A town in Galilee, on the west side of the sea of Tiberias, in the "land of Gennesaret." It was the native place of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, and was frequently resorted to by Jesus (Mark 6:45; John 1:44; 12:21). It is supposed to have been at the modern 'Ain Tabighah a bay to the north of Gennesaret. (2.) A city near which Christ fed 5,000 (Luke 9:10; comp. John 6:17; Matt. 14:15-21), and where the blind man had his sight restored (Mark 8:22), on the east side of the lake, two miles up the Jordan. It stood within the region of Gaulonitis and was enlarged by Philip the tetrarch, who called it "Julias," after the emperor's daughter. Or as some have supposed, there may have been but one Bethsaida built on both sides of the lake, near where the Jordan enters it Now the ruins et-Tel. From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: Bethsaida, house of fruits, or of food, or of snares
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