Bethesda
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Etymology edit
From Aramaic בֵּית חַסְדָּא (bēṯ ḥasdā, “House of Grace”).
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Bethesda
- (biblical) A pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.
- An unincorporated census-designated place in southern Montgomery County, Maryland, United States.
- A village in Belmont County, Ohio, United States.
- A town in Gwynedd, Wales (OS grid ref SH6266).
- A small village in Pembrokeshire, Wales (OS grid ref SN0917).
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pool in Jerusalem
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Bethesda (plural Bethesdas)
- (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.