Bible Names

Bethany: meaning of the name

Bethany means “the house of song; the house of affliction.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)

Bethany in Hebrew and Greek

Βηθανία G963

Bēthanía — date-house; Beth-any, a place in Palestine

of Chaldee origin;

Places named Bethany

Bethany in Scripture

“Bethany” appears in 11 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Matthew 21:17

    And he left them, and went out of the city into Bethany; and he lodged there.

  • Matthew 26:6

    Now when Jesus was in Bethany, in the house of Simon the leper,

  • Mark 11:1

    And when they came nigh to Jerusalem, unto Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount of Olives, he sendeth forth two of his disciples,

  • Mark 11:11

    And Jesus entered into Jerusalem, and into the temple: and when he had looked round about upon all things, and now the eventide was come, he went out unto Bethany with the twelve.

  • Mark 11:12

    And on the morrow, when they were come from Bethany, he was hungry:

  • Mark 14:3

    And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.

  • Luke 19:29

    And it came to pass, when he was come nigh to Bethphage and Bethany, at the mount called the mount of Olives, he sent two of his disciples,

  • Luke 24:50

    And he led them out as far as to Bethany, and he lifted up his hands, and blessed them.