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# בֶּתֶר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H1335

**part** — used 3 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

part [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1335/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בֶ֫תֶר: n.m. part, piece [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1335/#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, 3 of its verses cited, 1 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: piece (1); pieces (1); the pieces (1).

## In the verses

[Jeremiah 34:19](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.34.19/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.34.19/#tree)

שָׂרֵ֨י יְהוּדָ֜ה וְשָׂרֵ֣י יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם הַסָּֽרִסִים֙ וְהַכֹּ֣הֲנִ֔ים וְכֹ֖ל עַ֣ם הָאָ֑רֶץ הָעֹ֣בְרִ֔ים בֵּ֖ין בִּתְרֵ֥י הָעֵֽגֶל׃

*Word for word:* the.officials of.Judah and the.officials of.Jerusalem the court-officials and the priests and all the.people of the.land \[who\] passed between the.pieces of the.calf

*JPS 1917:* the princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the officers, and the priests, and all the people of the land, that passed between the parts of the calf;

[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/1335.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1335/): 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).