bethel
IPA: bˈɛθʌɫ
noun
- A holy place.
- A chapel, especially one for sailors, converted from an old ship.
- A chapter of Job's Daughters International.
- An ancient town in Palestine, generally identified with modern Beitin in the West Bank; the site of Abraham's first altar.
- Any of several places in the United States:
- The largest city in western Alaska.
- A census area in Alaska, which includes the city,
- A ghost town in Madera County, California.
- A town in Fairfield County, Connecticut.
- A town in Sussex County, Delaware.
- An unincorporated community in Wakulla County, Florida.
- An unincorporated community in Delaware County, Indiana.
- An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Indiana.
- A town in Oxford County, Maine.
- A tiny city in Anoka County, Minnesota.
- A village in Shelby County, Missouri.
- A town in Sullivan County, New York.
- A hamlet in Dutchess County, New York.
- A town in Pitt County, North Carolina.
- A village in Clermont County, Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Comanche County, Oklahoma.
- A rural unincorporated community in McCurtain County, Oklahoma.
- A neighborhood of Eugene, Oregon.
- An unincorporated community in Polk County, Oregon.
- An unincorporated community in Berks County, Pennsylvania.
- An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Pennsylvania.
- A ghost town in York County, South Carolina.
- An unincorporated community in Anderson County, Texas.
- An unincorporated community in Henderson County, Texas.
- A town in Windsor County, Vermont.
- An unincorporated community in Clarke County, Virginia.
- A census-designated place in Kitsap County, Washington.
- An unincorporated community in Wood County, Wisconsin.
- A number of townships in the United States, listed under Bethel Township.
- A small village in Bodorgan community, Anglesey, Wales (OS grid ref SH3970).
- Alternative form of baetyl (“sacred stone”) [(historical) A meteorite or similar-looking rough stone thought to be of divine origin and worshipped as sacred.]
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Examples of "bethel" in Sentences
- Page 8 and so our house for years was a real "bethel."
- There is a bethel, or floating "seaman's chapel," anchored in the
- The house was called bethel agreeable to the prayer that was made.
- She sprang from the bed and hurriedly rearranged the bethel on her bedspread.
- Note: I thought "bethel" was the word for house in Hebrew - what is this Jeru stuff?
- She will send you a letter if you send her a postcard. note: postcard deal still good, let me know if you'd like a reply: po box 81 bethel vt 05032
- BAETYLUS (Gr. [Greek: baitulos, baitulion]), a word of Semitic origin (= bethel) denoting a sacred stone, which was supposed to be endowed with life.
- They had matched each other in number since the French admiral had exiled the British missionary-consul, and compelled the queen to erect a papal church for every bethel.
- A stone might be a/bît îli/or bethel -- a "house of god," and almost invested with the status of a living thing, but that does not prove that the Babylonians thought of every stone as being endowed with life, even in prehistoric times.
- Before breakfast, another blast for family and private prayer; and then every tent became, in camp language, "a bethel of struggling Jacobs and prevailing Israels," every tree "an altar;" and every grove "a secret closet;" till the air all became religious words and phrases, and vocal with "Amens."
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