Bethesda

American  

[buh-thez-duh] / bəˈθɛz də /

noun

1. a pool in Biblical Jerusalem, believed to have healing powers.

2. a city in central Maryland; residential suburb of Washington, D.C.

3. bethesda, a chapel.

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Bethesda British  

/ bəˈθɛzdə /

noun

1. New Testament a pool in Jerusalem reputed to have healing powers, where a paralysed man was healed by Jesus (John 5:2)

2. a chapel of any of certain Nonconformist Christian sects

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Example Sentences

The Gospel of John tells of a pool called Bethesda, “at Jerusalem by the sheep market,” where every so often “an angel went down . . . and troubled the water; whosoever then first after the troubling of the water stepped in was made whole of whatsoever disease he had.”

From The Wall Street Journal

The park’s Bethesda Terrace features a pool with an “Angel of the Waters” that rises above it, seeming to ripple the surface of the waters below.

From The Wall Street Journal

But at Bethesda, at least, heaven and earth may meet.

From The Wall Street Journal

Bethesda Game Studios’ Todd Howard, who serves as an executive producer of the “Fallout” series, acknowledges that bringing New Vegas into the show for Season 2 added “an element of difficulty above and beyond that of Season 1.”

From Los Angeles Times

Its surprising success had a huge impact on Bethesda Softworks, the developer of its source material, bringing back lapsed players and creating new ones along the way.

From BBC