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bethleemBethlehem

Proper names whose form changes beyond mechanical spelling: Ionas → Jonah. Approve one at a time.

Puritas changed it
282 times in 115 works
Consistency
99.6% (282 of 283)
Reach if approved
~297 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bethlehem
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
283 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (282 changes in 115 works, 99.6% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 282)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … at Genues, who returning from the Eaſt, boaſted to haue brought with him from BethleemBethlehem the foreſaide breath of Ieſus Chriſt, and from Mount Sinai, the hornes that Moſes …
    With rule
    … at Genues, who returning from the Eaſt, boaſted to haue brought with him from BethleemBethlehem the foreſaide breath of Ieſus Chriſt, and from Mount Sinai, the hornes that Moſes …

    Thomas Beard · Antichrist the Pope of Rome · p. 355 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … to be taxed: and hereupon Ioseph and Mary take their iourny from Nazareth to BethleemBethlehem: which iourney God himselfe appointed and disposed to this end, that the Messias might …
    With rule
    … to be taxed: and hereupon Ioseph and Mary take their iourny from Nazareth to BethleemBethlehem: which iourney God himselfe appointed and disposed to this end, that the Messias might …

    William Perkins · Exposition of the Apostles Creed · p. 165 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … reuealed it to babes. The Scripture is as the Starre that leadeth vs to BethleemBethlehem.
    With rule
    … reuealed it to babes. The Scripture is as the Starre that leadeth vs to BethleemBethlehem.

    Archibald Simson · Exposition on the Seven Psalms of Repentance · p. 102 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … in diſcharge of their dutie in this point, departed from Nazareth, and came to BethleemBethlehem to be enrouled. True it is that Kinges and Princes ought neuertheleſſe to be …
    With rule
    … in diſcharge of their dutie in this point, departed from Nazareth, and came to BethleemBethlehem to be enrouled. True it is that Kinges and Princes ought neuertheleſſe to be …

    Jean Taffin · The Amendment of Life · p. 380 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … Ghoſt, and borne of a virgin, and of the houſe of Dauid, and in BethleemBethlehem: how the wiſe men came from the Eaſt vnto Ieruſalem, and told them that …
    With rule
    … Ghoſt, and borne of a virgin, and of the houſe of Dauid, and in BethleemBethlehem: how the wiſe men came from the Eaſt vnto Ieruſalem, and told them that …

    Nicholas Bownd · The Unbelief of Tomas the Apostle · p. 176 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … the bleſſed and promiſed ſeed, borne of the undefiled Virgin and Maid Mary, at BethleemBethlehem in the Land of Jewrie. And though he as a very man was wrapped …
    With rule
    … the bleſſed and promiſed ſeed, borne of the undefiled Virgin and Maid Mary, at BethleemBethlehem in the Land of Jewrie. And though he as a very man was wrapped …

    Henrich Bullinger · Look from Adam and Behold the Protestants Faith Proved · p. 82 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … The Prophet Dauid (as we heard before) would not drinke of the Water of BethleemBethlehem, becauſe it was gotten with the danger of ſome few mens Temporall liues: Ought …
    With rule
    … The Prophet Dauid (as we heard before) would not drinke of the Water of BethleemBethlehem, becauſe it was gotten with the danger of ſome few mens Temporall liues: Ought …

    William Attersoll · Commentary Upon Philemon · p. 222 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … when he demaunded wher their Meſſiah, whome we call Chriſte ſhoulde be borne in BethleemBethlehem Iuda, they do anſwere, for thus was it prophecyed that thou Bethelem, though thou …
    With rule
    … when he demaunded wher their Meſſiah, whome we call Chriſte ſhoulde be borne in BethleemBethlehem Iuda, they do anſwere, for thus was it prophecyed that thou Bethelem, though thou …

    Anthony Gilby · Commentary Upon Micah · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (1)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 1 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.