Where was Bethlehem?

House of bread. (1. ) A city in the “hill country” of Judah. It was originally called Ephrath (Gen. 35:16, 19; 48:7; Ruth 4:11). It was also called Beth-lehem Ephratah (Micah 5:2), Beth-lehem-judah. Modern identification: Beit Lahm.

Bethlehem is represented in the local geography layer as Beit Lahm. In this repository’s biblical text, the place first appears in Judges 12:8 and is mentioned across 1 book, with 2 verse references collected into the glossary index.