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bethelemBethlehem

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

Puritas changed it
67 times in 47 works
Consistency
97.1% (67 of 69)
Reach if approved
~72 places (estimated)
MorphAdorner
Agrees: bethlehem
Matches
Exact word, any case
In our text
69 times in the 7,099 works compared
Other readings
None
Taken into joins
None

If approved, its rationale reads: “Suggested by the Puritas diff (67 changes in 47 works, 97.1% consistent).”

Where Puritas made the change (8 of 67)

Our text, as printed and with the candidate applied
  1. Printed
    … Center: Pharaoh kileth the Hebrewe children, Herod the true Pharoah killeth the children of BethelemBethlehem. Both stirred vp by Sathan to murther the Messias (if they could) and to …
    With rule
    … Center: Pharaoh kileth the Hebrewe children, Herod the true Pharoah killeth the children of BethelemBethlehem. Both stirred vp by Sathan to murther the Messias (if they could) and to …

    William Loe · The Mystery of Mankind · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  2. Printed
    … BethelemBethlehem, one speciall reason that he vseth to perswade her, is this: That as BethelemBethlehem whither he wold haue her to repaire, is situate in the holy Land, and …
    With rule
    … BethelemBethlehem, one speciall reason that he vseth to perswade her, is this: That as BethelemBethlehem whither he wold haue her to repaire, is situate in the holy Land, and …

    William Perkins · Lectures Upon Revelation 1-3 · p. 357 · Open in the reader

  3. Printed
    … as he was borne, sought to slay him, and devoured all the Infants of BethelemBethlehem, hoping he had bin within his net: And Pontius Pilate the Romane President, who …
    With rule
    … as he was borne, sought to slay him, and devoured all the Infants of BethelemBethlehem, hoping he had bin within his net: And Pontius Pilate the Romane President, who …

    Thomas Taylor · Christs Victory Over the Dragon · p. 191 · Open in the reader

  4. Printed
    … Scribes aunſweared the wyſe menne whyche ſoughte Chriſte, that he ſhoulde be borne in BethelemBethlehem, and that by the prophecy of Michea. Their fayth is weake & feable, but not …
    With rule
    … Scribes aunſweared the wyſe menne whyche ſoughte Chriſte, that he ſhoulde be borne in BethelemBethlehem, and that by the prophecy of Michea. Their fayth is weake & feable, but not …

    Ulrich Zwingli · The Death Resurrection and Ascension of Christ · p. 169 · Open in the reader

  5. Printed
    … founded two Monasteries not farre from it; the one of Carthusians, which he named BethelemBethlehem; the other of Religious men and women of the Order of S. Bridget, which …
    With rule
    … founded two Monasteries not farre from it; the one of Carthusians, which he named BethelemBethlehem; the other of Religious men and women of the Order of S. Bridget, which …

    Sir Richard Baker · A Chronicle of the Kings of England from the Time of the Roman Government · p. 59 · Open in the reader

  6. Printed
    … to w…t when the Scepter was departed from it, in what place at BethelemBethlehem, of what perſon, of a pure Virgin of the lineage of David, which with …
    With rule
    … to w…t when the Scepter was departed from it, in what place at BethelemBethlehem, of what perſon, of a pure Virgin of the lineage of David, which with …

    William Sherwin · The Saints Rising Out of the Heap · p. 27 · Open in the reader

  7. Printed
    … a word propriate to a Sacrament. So we read, When Jeſus wos borne in BethelemBethlehem of …udea in the dayes of H…rod the King, behold, there came wiſe …
    With rule
    … a word propriate to a Sacrament. So we read, When Jeſus wos borne in BethelemBethlehem of …udea in the dayes of H…rod the King, behold, there came wiſe …

    Benjamin Needler · Expository Notes on the Pentateuch · p. 235 · Open in the reader

  8. Printed
    … to that Book. Now St. Hierom, as our Chronologers ſay, ended his life at BethelemBethlehem in the year of Chriſt 420, or 422. I ſuppoſe he might be upon his interpretation …
    With rule
    … to that Book. Now St. Hierom, as our Chronologers ſay, ended his life at BethelemBethlehem in the year of Chriſt 420, or 422. I ſuppoſe he might be upon his interpretation …

    Johann Buxtorf · Masora · p. 9 · Open in the reader

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Places Puritas left as printed: likely exceptions (2)

0 of them are in works where Puritas changed it elsewhere, so their places are known; 2 more are in works where it never changed. Each is our text, as the rule would change it.