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What does Bethany mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word Bethany? Here's what it means.

Proper noun
  1. (biblical) The village where Jesus stayed before going to Jerusalem and being crucified.
  2. (biblical) The village where Lazarus, Mary and Martha lived (Bible, John 11 v. 1)
  3. (biblical) Mary of Bethany, sometimes identified as Mary Magdalene.
  4. A female given name, transferred use of the biblical place name.
Name
  1. A female given name of Hebrew origin.
    1. (meaning, history) A house of poverty. A placename from the New Testament.
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By 1844 the Bethany settlers, almost all of them of peasant stock, had nearly five hundred acres under cultivation, most of them with wheat.
Bethany Payne, 18, a student at the University of Exeter, receives the allowance for her repetitive strain injury.
People rushed over to clap Jeff on the back, hug Bethany, and congratulate the both of them.
Bethany also acts as her parents' ears as both are deaf, since contracting measles in childhood.
Bethany had felt energized before the meet, but now she felt nervous and queasy.
On Labor Day weekend, the teenager accompanied Shattuck, her three children, and several of their friends to Bethany beach.

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