Bethlehem

noun3

1. •
   A city in the West Bank, Palestine, believed to be the birthplace of Jesus.

   • Now when Iesus was boꝛne in Bethlehem of Iudea, in the dayes of Herod the king, behold, there came Wise men from the East to Hierusalem, — 1611
2. •
   In the Ethiopic church, a small building attached to a church edifice, in which the bread for the Eucharist is made.

   • […] to the Hebrew and Arabic word “korban” as now used in the Abyssinian Church to denote the sacramental bread specially prepared in the “Bethlehem,” or “House of Bread.” — 1869
3. •
   (no longer used) A lunatic asylum.