bethlehem   (TTS Sound)

The noun bethlehem has 2 senses

• Bethlehem -- (a town in eastern Pennsylvania on the Lehigh River to the northwest of Philadelphia; an important center for steel production)


• Bethlehem, Bayt Lahm, Bethlehem Ephrathah, Bethlehem-Judah -- (a small town near Jerusalem on the West Bank of the Jordan River; early home of David and regarded as the place where Jesus was born)