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# בֶּתֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1336

**part** — 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

part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1336/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶ֫תֶר: n.m. part, piece [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1336/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Gn 15:10 part, piece. בִּתְרוֹ Gn 15:10; pl. sf. בְּתָרָיו Je 34:18, בִּתְרֵי הָעֵגֶל Je 34:19; always of halves of animals cut in two in making covenants. הָרֵי בָּ֑תֶר Ct 2:17 mountains of cutting, i.e. cleft mountains 𝔊 Thes al.; or of separation (between us) Ew al.; according to We Prol. 415, Eng. Tr. 391 ב׳ = malobathron.—Bether as n.pr. AV RV.

Why these entries: BDB: headword without dagesh, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (2 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Song of Songs 2:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/SNG.2.17/#tree)

עַ֤ד שֶׁיָּפ֙וּחַ֙ הַיּ֔וֹם וְנָ֖סוּ הַצְּלָלִ֑ים סֹב֩ דְּמֵה־לְךָ֨דוֹדִ֜י לִצְבִ֗י א֛וֹ לְעֹ֥פֶר הָאַיָּלִ֖ים עַל־הָ֥רֵי בָֽתֶר׃ס

*Word for word:* until that it.will.breathe the day and they.will.flee the shadows turn be.like (for yourself my.lover my (to).a gazelle or (to \[the\].fawn of the.deer(s) on the.mountains of.ravine\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Until the day breathe, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a gazelle or a young hart upon the mountains of spices.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/1336.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1336/): 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).