Bethabara

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


BETHABARA.—Mentioned once only, Joh_1:28, as the scene of John’s baptism; the principal codices, followed by the RV [Note: Revised Version.] , here read Bethany. There is no clue to the position of Bethabara, except that it was probably in or near Galilee (cf. Mat_3:13). Identification with a ford named ‘Abârah, about 12 miles south of the outlet of the Sea of Galilee, has with some plausibility been suggested.
R. A. S. Macalister.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


("house of a ford or passage") (See Jdg_7:24), where John was when he baptized Jesus (Joh_1:28; compare Joh 1:29-30-35). The same as (See BETH-NIMRAH, "the house of leopards," now Beyt-nemir. Thence Elijah ascended. The leopards having come back after their temporary ejectment, during which the name Bethabara prevailed, the place resumed its original name. But perhaps the name means rather, "house of pure water." The Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, and Alexandrinus, the three oldest manuscripts, read "Bethany," which also may mean "house of a ferryboat," i.e. a passage. Yet Origen prefers the reading Bethabara. Some explain Bethany = boathouse, virtually = Bethabara.
Lieut. Conder places the Bethabara of Judges at the traditional site, the pilgrims' bathing place near Kasr el Yahud, E. of Jericho, within easy reach of Jerusalem. But he shows there is an objection to placing Bethabara's) far S., for Christ's baptism. A site is required within 30 miles of Cana of Galilee; for (Joh_1:43) "the day following (the events at Bethabara, Joh_1:28-36) Jesus would go forth into Galilee," and on the third day (John 2) was in Cana. Now just one mile N. of wady Jalud, two days journey from Nazareth and Cana (25 miles), is Makhadhet Abara, "the ford of crossing over." The great road on the N. side of wady Jalud to Gilead and S. Hauran passes over by it. The nearness to Galilee, and the openness of the sides of the river here, leaving a broader space for the crowd seeking baptism, favor the view. The name Bethabara might probably belong to more points than one where Jordan is forded.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Bethab'ara. (house of the ford). A place beyond Jordan, in which according to the Received Text of the New Testament, John was baptizing. Joh_1:28. If this reading be correct, Bethabara is identical with Beth-barah (fords of Abarah), the ancient ford of Jordan on the road to Gilead; or, which seems more likely, with Beth-nimrah, on the east of the river, nearly opposite Jericho. The Revised Version reads Bethany, see below.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


or BETHBARAH, signifies in the Hebrew a place of passage, because of its ford over the river Jordan, on the east bank of which river it stood over against Jericho, Jos_2:7; Jos_3:15-16. To this place Gideon sent a party to secure the passage of the river, previous to his attack on the Midianites,
Jdg_7:24. Here John commenced his baptizing, and here Christ himself was baptized, Joh_1:28. To this place, also, Jesus retired, when the Jews sought to take him at the feast of dedication; and many who resorted there to him believed on him, Joh_10:39-42.
Biblical and Theological Dictionary by Richard Watson
PRINTER 1849.


beth-ab?a-ra בּית עברה, bēth‛ăbhārāh; Βηθαβαρά, Bēthabará, ?house of the ford?): According to the King James Version (following Textus Receptus of the New Testament) the place where John baptized (Joh_1:28). the Revised Version (British and American) (with Tischendorf, Westcott and Hort, The New Testament in Greek following Codex Sinaiticus, Codex Vaticanus, Codex Alexandrinus, Codex Ephraemi) reads BETHANY. It is distinguished from the Bethany of Lazarus and his sisters as being ?beyond the Jordan.? The reading ?Bethabara? became current owing to the advocacy of Origen. Various suggestions have been made to explain the readings. G. A. Smith (HGHL) suggests that Bethany (?house of the ship?) and Bethabara (?house of the ford?) are names for the same place. Bethabara has also been identified with Bethbarah, which, however, was probably not on the Jordan but among the streams flowing into it (Jdg_7:24). It is interesting to note that lxxB reads , Baithabara for Massoretic Text Bēth-‛ărābhāh, one of the cities of Benjamin (Jos_18:22). If this be correct, the site is in Judea.
Another solution is sought in the idea of a corruption of the original name into Bethany and Bethabara, the name having the consonants n, b and r after Beth. In Jos_13:27 (Septuagint, Codex Vaticanus) we find , Baithanabra for Bethnimrah (Massoretic Text), and Sir George Grove in DB (arts. ?Bethabara? and ?Beth-nimrah?) identifies Bethabara and Beth-nimrah. The site of the latter was a few miles above Jericho (see BETH-NIMRAH), ?immediately accessible to Jerusalem and all Judea? (compare Mat_3:5; Mar_1:5, and see article ?Bethany? in EB). This view has much in its favor.
Then, again, as Dr. G. Frederick Wright observes: ?The traditional site is at the ford east of Jericho; but as according to Joh_1:29, Joh_1:35, Joh_1:43 it was only one day's journey from Cana of Galilee, while according to Joh_10:40; Joh_11:3, Joh_11:6, Joh_11:27 it was two or three days from Bethany, it must have been well up the river toward Galilee. Conder discovered a well-known ford near Beisan called Abarah, near the mouth of the valley of Jezreel. This is 20 miles from Cana and 60 miles from Bethany, and all the conditions of the place fit in with the history.? See also BETHANY (2).
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Bethab?ara or Bethbarah. This name means place of the ford, i.e. of or over the Jordan; and is mentioned in Joh_1:28, as the place where John baptized. The best manuscripts and recent editions, however, have Bethany: the reading Bethabara appears to have arisen from the conjecture of Origen, who in his day found no such place on the Jordan as Bethany, but knew a town called Bethabara, where John was said to have baptized, and therefore took the unwarrantable liberty of changing the reading.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Bethabara
(Βηθαβαρά, quasi, בּית עֲבָרָה, house of the ford or ferry), a place beyond Jordan (πέραν τοῦ Ι᾿ορ.), in which, according to the Received Text of the N.T., John was baptizing (Joh_1:28), apparently at the time that he baptized Christ (comp. Joh_1:29; Joh_1:39; Joh_1:35). If this reading be the correct one, Bethabara may be identical with BETH-BARAH SEE BETH- BARAH (q.v.), the ancient ford of Jordan, of which the men of Ephraim took possession after Gideon's defeat of the. Midianites (Jdg_7:24); or possibly with BETH-NIMRAH SEE BETH-NIMRAH (q.v.), on the east of the river, nearly opposite Jericho. But the oldest MSS. (A, B) and the Vulgate have not “Bethabara,” but Bethany (Βηθανία), a reading which Origen states (Opp. 2, 130, ed. Huet) to have obtained in almost all the copies of his time (σχέδον πάντα τὰ ἀντίγραφα), though altered by him in his edition of the Gospel on topographical grounds (see Kuinol, in loc.). In favor of Bethabara are
(a) changed by copyists into one so unfamiliar as Bethabara, while the reverse — the change from an unfamiliar to a familiar name — is of frequent occurrence.
(b) The fact that Origen, while admitting that the majority of MSS. were in favor of Bethany, decided, notwithstanding, for Bethabara.
(c) That Bethabara was still known in the days of Eusebius and Jerome (Onomasticon, Βηθααβαρά, Bethbaara, which is expressly stated to have been the scene of John's baptism), and greatly resorted to by persons desirous of baptism. Still the fact remains that the most ancient MSS. have “Bethany,” and that name has been accordingly restored to the text by Lachmann, Tischendorf, and other modern editors. The locality must, therefore, be sought by this name on the east shore of the Jordan. SEE BETHANY.
Bethabara
Lieut. Conder thinks he has recovered this site in the present ford Abaurah, about a mile north of the place where the stream el-Jalud falls into the Jordan opposite Beisan (Tent-work, 2, 64 sq.); but he gives no decisive reason for the identification beyond the correspondence in name and the vicinity to Galilee, which he contends is required by the note of time in Joh_2:1.



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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