Ancient Greek

• (4th AD Koine) IPA^(key): /βiθaβará/

• (10th AD Byzantine) IPA^(key): /viθavará/

• (15th AD Constantinopolitan) IPA^(key): /viθavaɾá/

Proper noun

Βηθαβαρά • ‎(Bēthabará) f ‎(indeclinable)

1. Bethabara, a place on the Jordan where John the Baptist was baptizing.

Usage notes

Βηθαβαρά only appears once in John 1:28, and only in less reliable manuscripts. Other manuscripts have Βηθανία ‎(Bēthanía).

References

• Bauer, Walter et al. (2001) A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, Third edition, Chicago: University of Chicago Press
• «Βηθαβαρά» in the Diccionario Griego–Español en línea (© 2006–2016)
• “G962”, in Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible, 1979
• Strong's Concordance number: G962