Bethsaida

2 definitions found

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Bethsaida
     house of fish. (1.) A town in Galilee, on the west side of the
     sea of Tiberias, in the "land of Gennesaret." It was the native
     place of Peter, Andrew, and Philip, and was frequently resorted
     to by Jesus (Mark 6:45; John 1:44; 12:21). It is supposed to
     have been at the modern 'Ain Tabighah, a bay to the north of


     Gennesaret.
     
       (2.) A city near which Christ fed 5,000 (Luke 9:10; comp. John
     6:17; Matt. 14:15-21), and where the blind man had his sight
     restored (Mark 8:22), on the east side of the lake, two miles up
     the Jordan. It stood within the region of Gaulonitis, and was
     enlarged by Philip the tetrarch, who called it "Julias," after
     the emperor's daughter. Or, as some have supposed, there may
     have been but one Bethsaida built on both sides of the lake,
     near where the Jordan enters it. Now the ruins et-Tel.
     

From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:

  Bethsaida, house of fruits, or of food, or of snares