Bethesda = "house of mercy" or "flowing water"

1. the name of a pool near the sheep-gate at Jerusalem, whose waters had curative powers

but, moreover, and, etc.

in Hebrew, i.e. in Chaldee

to be, to exist, to happen, to be present

in, by, with etc.

upon, on, at, by, before

of position, on, at, by, over, against

to, over, on, at, across, against

to say besides

to surname

to choose for

to choose for one's self

"he/she/it is" (third person singular of 'to be'). Used with 3739 in the following verses: Mar 3:17; 7:11, 34; 12:42; 15:15; Eph 6:17; Col 1:24; Hbr 7:2; Rev 21:8, 17. These are listed under number 3603.

to have, i.e. to hold

1. to have (hold) in the hand, in the sense of wearing, to have (hold) possession of the mind (refers to alarm, agitating emotions, etc.), to hold fast keep, to have or comprise or involve, to regard or consider or hold as

to have i.e. own, possess

1. external things such as pertain to property or riches or furniture or utensils or goods or food etc.

2. used of those joined to any one by the bonds of natural blood or marriage or friendship or duty or law etc, of attendance or companionship

to hold one's self or find one's self so and so, to be in such or such a condition

to hold one's self to a thing, to lay hold of a thing, to adhere or cling to

1. to be closely joined to a person or a thing

Jerusalem = "set ye double peace"

1. denotes either the city itself or the inhabitants

2. "the Jerusalem that now is", with its present religious institutions, i.e. the Mosaic system, so designated from its primary external location

3. "Jerusalem that is above", that is existing in heaven, according to the pattern of which the earthly Jerusalem was supposed to be built

   1. metaph. "the City of God founded by Christ", now wearing the form of the church, but after Christ's return to put on the form of the perfected Messianic kingdom

4. "the heavenly Jerusalem", that is the heavenly abode of God, Christ, the angels, saints of the Old and New Testament periods and those Christians that are alive at Christ's return

5. "the New Jerusalem", a splendid visible city to be let down from heaven after the renovation of the world, the future abode of the blessed

a place for diving, a swimming hole, a reservoir or pool for bathing

this, that, these, etc. Only significant renderings other than "the" counted

five

pertaining to sheep

the sheep gate

a portico, a covered colonnade where people can stand or walk protected from the weather and the heat of the sun

the portico built by Solomon in the eastern part of the temple (which in the temple's destruction by the Babylonians was left uninjured, and remained down to the time of King Agrippa, to whom the care of the temple was entrusted by the emperor Claudius, and who on account of its antiquity dare not demolish it and build anew.