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בֶּתֶר

«בֶּתֶר» in the Tanakh dictionary: part — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

Used: 3 times · Key: 1335 · BDB: בֶ֫תֶר

Glosses

piece (1); pieces (1); the.pieces (1)

Meaning (OSHB)

part tree →

Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. part, piece tree →

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)

Trees and pragmatics

Every English meaning of «בֶּתֶר» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

In the verses

Jeremiah 34:19

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

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.

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