Bethany is the name of two villages mentioned in the New Testament of the Bible:
- Bethany near Jerusalem, today known as Al-Eizariya which means "the place of Lazarus"
- Bethany (or Bethabara) beyond the Jordan, today known as Al-Maghtas.
It may also refer to:
Film
- Bethany (film), a 2017 American horror film starring Tom Green
Music
- Bethany (band), an alternative arena rock band
- "Bethany", a version of the hymn "Nearer, My God, to Thee"
Names
- Bethany (given name), a female given name
Other places
Australia
Canada
- Béthanie, Quebec, a hamlet roughly between Montreal and Sherbrooke
- Bethany, Lennox and Addington County, Ontario
- Bethany, Ontario, an unincorporated village in the municipality of Kawartha Lakes near Peterborough
Eswatini
Jordan & Palestine
- Bethany, the biblical village in ancient Palestine
- Al-Maghtas, the supposed 'Bethany beyond the Jordan' where Jesus was baptised; possibly identical with Bethabara.
Namibia
South Africa
- Bethanie, Free State
- Bethanie, North West
- Bethanie is also a neighborhood of Cape Town.
United Kingdom
United States
- Bethany Township (disambiguation)
- Bethany, Connecticut
- Bethany Beach, Delaware
- Bethany, Florida
- Bethany, Georgia
- Bethany, Illinois
- Bethany, Indiana
- Bethany, Bartholomew County, Indiana
- Bethany, Parke County, Indiana
- Bethany, Kentucky (disambiguation)
- Bethany, Louisville, neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky
- Bethany, Louisiana and Texas
- Bethany Beach, Michigan, a part of the Shorewood-Tower Hills-Harbert, Michigan, Census-Designated Place
- Bethany, Minnesota
- Bethany, Missouri
- Bethany, Nebraska
- Bethany, New York
- Bethany, Ohio
- Bethany, Oklahoma
- Bethany, Oregon
- Bethany, Pennsylvania
- Bethany, South Carolina
- Bethany, Tennessee, in Warren County
- Bethany, Virginia
- Bethany, West Virginia
- South Bethany, Delaware
- Bethany, United States Virgin Islands
Schools and institutions
- Bethany College (disambiguation)
- Bethany Christian Schools
- Bethany Christian Trust
- Bethany Lutheran College
- Bethany Lutheran Theological Seminary
- Bethany Theological Seminary
- Béthanie (Hong Kong)
- Bethany Home, a former residential institution for Protestant women and children in Dublin, Ireland.
See also
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.