A city in the West Bank, Palestine, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus. / A town in Free State province, South Africa.

(obsolete) A lunatic asylum. / (architecture) In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the Eucharist is made.

plural of Bethlehem

Any of the genus Ornithogalum of perennial plants mostly native to southern Europe and southern Africa, with clusters of typically white star-shaped flowers.

(biblical) The bright star in the Gospel of Matthew that lead the "wise men from the East" to travel to Bethlehem.

A township in Washington County, Pennsylvania, United States.

plural of Bethlehemite

An inhabitant of Bethlehem in Judea. / (obsolete) An insane person; a madman. / (historical) Member of an extinct English order of friars.