bethesda

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Scrabble points
14
Words With Friends
14
Letters
8
Pronunciation
/bəˈθɛz.də/

Definition of bethesda

19 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.
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name

  1. A pool in Jerusalem mentioned in the New Testament.
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    “The Bethesda Declaration, signed by 484 NIH staff, directly accused NIH director Jay Bhattacharya of “a failure of your legal duty to use congressionally appropriated funds for critical NIH research. Each day that the NIH continues to disrupt research, your ability to deliver on this duty narrows.””
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  16. A village in Saint Paul parish, Antigua, Antigua and Barbuda.
  17. A place in Wales:
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noun

  1. (poetic)Any location whose waters are supposed to have curative properties.
    “...those who are afflicted with rheumatic, neuralgic, and splenetic diseases, go, and are cured by the thousands. These Bethesdas are scattered all up and down our country, blessed be God!”
    “Time was when this Bethesda too was curative, a sweet oasis in a parched and driven city. The day we went we found the fountain had been shut off.”

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Etymology

From Aramaic בֵּית חַסְדָּא (bēṯ ḥasdā, “House of Grace”).

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