Bethany

(beth'ah-ne.) [Heb., place of dates. ] (Anc. Geog.) A village on the eastern slope of Mount Olivet, abt. 2m. E.S.E. of Jerusalem, and on the road to Jericho. It was the residence of Lazarus and his sisters Mary and Martha, and was often visited by Christ. It is now a poor village, called Aziriyeh, a name derived from Lazarus. Bethany, a village of W. Virginia, inBrooke co., 16m N.E. of Wheeling. It is the seat of Bethany College, founded in 1841, by A. Campbell, the founder of the sect of Baptists called Disciples. [s. 91]