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Beit Lahm
Bethlehem was first settled by Canaanite tribes who name the city Beit Lahama. They built a temple to the god Lahama on the present mount of the Nativity.
The biblical city of Bethlehem (Heb, בֵּית לֶחֶם, Beit Lehem, House of Bread; Arab. Bait Lahm) is located some five kilometers south of Jerusalem (east of the ...
The more modern names also make reference to the idea of a fertile and abundant place; in Arabic, Beit Lahm has the sense “house of flesh”, reflecting the large ...
Bethlehem Arabic: بيت لحم Bayt Laḥm, “House of Meat”; initially named after is a city in the central West Bank, Palestine, about 10 km (6.2 miles) south of ...