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# בֶּטֶן

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H991

**Beten** — 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

Beten [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/991/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫טֶן²: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/991/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city in Asher Jos 19:25 (= depression, basin, valley? cf. Arabic بَطْنٌ, Lane220 col. 3) = Βατναί, called Βεθβετεν cf. LagOnom. 236, 2nd ed. 249; 𝔊 Βαιθοκ, 𝔊L Βετελ.

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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 19:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.25/#tree)

וַיְהִ֖י גְּבוּלָ֑ם חֶלְקַ֥ת וַחֲלִ֖י וָבֶ֥טֶן וְאַכְשָֽׁף׃

*Word for word:* and it.was border their Helkath and Hali and Beten and Acshaph

*JPS 1917:* And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/991.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/991/): 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).