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# בֵּנַיִם

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1143

**interval** — used 2 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

interval [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1143/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. sub \[בַּיִן\].

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number, only a cross-reference (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the champions (2).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 17:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.4/#tree)

וַיֵּצֵ֤א אִֽישׁ־הַבֵּנַ֙יִם֙ מִמַּחֲנ֣וֹת פְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים גָּלְיָ֥ת שְׁמ֖וֹ מִגַּ֑ת גָּבְה֕וֹ שֵׁ֥שׁ אַמּ֖וֹת וָזָֽרֶת׃

*Word for word:* and he.came.out the.man of the.champions from the.camps of.\[the\].Philistines \[was\].Goliath name his from Gath height his \[was\].six cubits and a.span

*JPS 1917:* And there went out a champion from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Gath, whose height was six cubits and a span.

[1 Samuel 17:23](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.23/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.17.23/#tree)

וְה֣וּא ׀ מְדַבֵּ֣ר עִמָּ֗ם וְהִנֵּ֣ה אִ֣ישׁ הַבֵּנַ֡יִם עוֹלֶ֞ה גָּלְיָת֩ הַפְּלִשְׁתִּ֨י שְׁמ֤וֹ מִגַּת֙ מִמַּעַרְכ֣וֹתפְּלִשְׁתִּ֔ים וַיְדַבֵּ֖ר כַּדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֑לֶּה וַיִּשְׁמַ֖ע דָּוִֽד׃

*Word for word:* and he \[was\].speaking with them and there! the.man of the.champions \[was\].coming.up \[was\].Goliath the Philistine name his from Gath from the.battle.lines of.\[the\].Philistines and he.spoke according to the.words (the) these and he.heard David

*JPS 1917:* And as he talked with them, behold, there came up the champion, the Philistine of Gath, Goliath by name, out of the ranks of the Philistines, and spoke according to the same words; and David heard them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1143.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1143/): 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).