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# בֶּצֶר

Biblical Hebrew

**Bezer** — used 4 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

Bezer [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5e6_5b6_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶּ֫צֶר²: n.pr.loc. n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5e6_5b6_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (fortress)— n.pr.loc. city in Reuben (MI בצר) Dt 4:43 Jos 20:8 1 Ch 6:63. n.pr.m. a descendant of Asher 1 Ch 7:37.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Joshua 21:36](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.36/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.36/#tree)

וּמִמַּטֵּ֣ה רְאוּבֵ֔ן אֶת־בֶּ֖צֶר וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֑הָ וְאֶת־יַ֖הְצָה וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ׃

*Word for word:* and from the.tribe of.Reuben (et) Bezer and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) (to) Jahaz and (et) lands its.pasture

*JPS 1917:* And out of the tribe of Reuben, Bezer with the open land about it, and Jahaz with the open land about it;

[Deuteronomy 4:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.4.43/#tree)

אֶת־בֶּ֧צֶר בַּמִּדְבָּ֛ר בְּאֶ֥רֶץ הַמִּישֹׁ֖ר לָרֻֽאוּבֵנִ֑יוְאֶת־רָאמֹ֤ת בַּגִּלְעָד֙ לַגָּדִ֔י וְאֶת־גּוֹלָ֥ן בַּבָּשָׁ֖ן לַֽמְנַשִּֽׁי׃

*Word for word:* (et) Bezer in the wilderness in the.land of the.plain for the Reubenite\[s\] and (et) Ramoth in (the) Gilead for the Gadite\[s\] and (et) Golan in (the) Bashan for the Manassite\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Bezer in the wilderness, in the table-land, for the Reubenites; and Ramoth in Gilead, for the Gadites; and Golan in Bashan, for the Manassites.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5e6_5b6_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/lemma_3a_5d1_5b6_5bc_5e6_5b6_5e8/): 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).