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# בְּאֵרֹתִי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H886

**Beerothite** — used 5 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Beerothite [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/886/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בְאֵרֹתִי: adj.gent. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/886/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj.gent. always c. art. 2 S 4:2, 5, 9, 23:37 = הַבֵּרֹתִי 1 Ch 11:39; pl. הַבְּאֵרֹתִים 2 S 4:3.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Beerothite (4); Beerothites (1).

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 23:37](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.37/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.23.37/#tree)

צֶ֖לֶק הָעַמֹּנִ֑יס נַחְרַי֙ הַבְּאֵ֣רֹתִ֔י נֹשֵׂ֕א כְּלֵ֖י יוֹאָ֥ב בֶּן־צְרֻיָֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* Zelek the Ammonite Naharai the Beerothite the.bearer of.the.armor(s) of.Joab the.son of.Zeruiah

*JPS 1917:* Zelek the Ammonite, Naharai the Beerothite, armour-bearer to Joab the son of Zeruiah;

[2 Samuel 4:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.4.3/#tree)

וַיִּבְרְח֥וּ הַבְּאֵרֹתִ֖ים גִּתָּ֑יְמָה וַֽיִּהְיוּ־שָׁ֣ם גָּרִ֔ים עַ֖ד הַיּ֥וֹם הַזֶּֽה׃ס

*Word for word:* and they.had.fled the Beerothites to Gittaim and they.have.been there sojourning until the day (the) this

*JPS 1917:* and the Beerothites fled to Gittaim, and have been sojourners there until this day.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/886.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/886/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).