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# בֶּטַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H984

**Betah** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Betah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/984/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫טַח²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/984/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city of Hadadezer king of Zobah 2 S 8:8 (but read rather טִבְחַת so 1 Ch 18:8; 𝔊 Sm Μασβακ, 𝔊L Ματεβακ; 𝔊 Ch Μεταβηχας, 𝔊L ταβααθ; cf. also We Dr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 8:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.8.8/#tree)

וּמִבֶּ֥טַח וּמִבֵּֽרֹתַ֖י עָרֵ֣י הֲדַדְעָ֑זֶר לָקַ֞ח הַמֶּ֧לֶךְ דָּוִ֛ד נְחֹ֖שֶׁת הַרְבֵּ֥ה מְאֹֽד׃ס

*Word for word:* and from Betah and from Berothai the.cities of.Hadadezer he.took the king David bronze much very

*JPS 1917:* And from Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, king David took exceeding much brass.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/984.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/984/): 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).