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# בָּתַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1334

**cut in two** — used 2 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

cut in two [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1334/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּתַר: vb. cut in two [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1334/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cut in two (Arabic بَتَرَ cut off prematurely; extirpate by cutting)— Pf. בָּתָ֑ר Gn 15:10; Impf. וַיְבַתֵּר Gn 15:10 id.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 2 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Genesis 15:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.15.10/#tree)

וַיִּֽקַּֽח־ל֣וֹ אֶת־כָּל־אֵ֗לֶּה וַיְבַתֵּ֤ר אֹתָם֙ בַּתָּ֔וֶךְ וַיִּתֵּ֥ן אִישׁ־בִּתְר֖וֹ לִקְרַ֣את רֵעֵ֑הוּ וְאֶת־הַצִפֹּ֖רלֹ֥א בָתָֽר׃

*Word for word:* and he.brought to him (et) all these and he.cut.in.two them in the middle and he.set each piece its to meet neighbor its and (et) the bird\[s\] not he.cut.in.two

*JPS 1917:* And he took him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each half over against the other; but the birds divided he not.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1334.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1334/): 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).