בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי
Bethlehemite
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Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Gentilic
- A noun naming a member of a people, tribe, or region of origin (e.g. an Israelite, a Moabite).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 7 times (88%)
- Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (13%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 8 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H1022 appears — 4 distinct verses across 2 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
1 Samuel 3 verses
- 1 Samuel 16:1 בֵּֽית הַלַּחְמִ֔י n Gentilic ms n Gentilic ms Yahweh said to Samuel, How long will you mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from being king over Israel? fill your horn with oil, and go: I will send you to Jesse the Bethlehemite; for I have provided me a king among his sons.
- 1 Samuel 16:18 בֵּ֣ית הַלַּחְמִי֒ n Gentilic ms n Gentilic ms Then answered one of the young men, and said, Behold, I have seen a son of Jesse the Bethlehemite, who is skillful in playing, and a mighty man of valor, and a man of war, and prudent in speech, and a comely person; and Yahweh is with him.
- 1 Samuel 17:58 בֵּ֥ית הַלַּחְמִֽי n Gentilic ms n Gentilic ms Saul said to him, Whose son are you, you young man? David answered, I am the son of your servant Jesse the Bethlehemite.
2 Samuel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בית הלחמי (Bêyth hal-Lachmîy) is a Hebrew name most often rendered “Bethlehemite.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. 1 Samuel dominates its distribution — 3 of 4 verses. Scripture first uses it in 1 Samuel 16:1. The sections below give every occurrence and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H1022 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,625
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,625 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Bethlehemite 4×
- American Standard Version: Beth-lehemite 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Bethlehem 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Bethlehemite 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H1022 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H1022 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H1022 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H1022 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Bethlehemite = "house of bread"
- an inhabitant of Bethlehem
Word origin
בֵּית הַלַּחְמִי adj.gent. the Bethlehemite
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from בית לחם (Bêyth Lechem) (H1035) — Bethlehem.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H1022 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בֵּ֣ית | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 16:18 | 2 |
| בֵּ֥ית | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:58 | 1 |
| בֵּֽית | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 16:1 | 1 |
| הַלַּחְמִ֔י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 16:1 | 1 |
| הַלַּחְמִ֗י | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 21:19 | 1 |
| הַלַּחְמִֽי | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 17:58 | 1 |
| הַלַּחְמִי֒ | Noun, Gentilic, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Samuel 16:18 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H1022, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
