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# בֵּרִים

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1276

**Berites** — 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

Berites [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1276/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** 2 S 20:14 obscure, many after 𝔙 read בַּחֻרִים; Klo prefers הַבִּכְרִים after 𝔊 & so Dr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Samuel 20:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.20.14/#tree)

וַֽיַּעֲבֹ֞ר בְּכָל־שִׁבְטֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל אָבֵ֛לָה וּבֵ֥ית מַעֲכָ֖ה בֵ֥ית מַעֲכָ֖ה וְכָל־הַבֵּרִ֑יםס וַיִּקָּ֣הֲל֔וּ וַיָּבֹ֖אוּ אַף־אַחֲרָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* and he.passed in all the.tribes of.Israel to Abel and Beth Maacah and all the Berites and they.assembled and they.went also after him

*JPS 1917:* And he went through all the tribes of Israel unto Abel, and to Beth-maacah, and all the Berites; and they were gathered together, and went in also after him.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1276/): 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).