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title: בֶּתֶר — part · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בֶּתֶר (1336), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: part. BDB 1906: n.m. part, piece. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בֶּתֶר

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«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 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 1336 · **BDB:** בֶ֫תֶר

### Glosses

of.ravine\[s\] (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

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

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

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

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**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.

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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)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בֶּתֶר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/1336/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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

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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.

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