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title: בֶּטֶן — Beten · The Tanakh dictionary
description: בֶּטֶן (991), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: Beten. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# בֶּטֶן

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«בֶּטֶן» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Beten** — 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:** 991 · **BDB:** בֶּ֫טֶן²

### Glosses

Beten (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Beten [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/991/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/991/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. city in Asher Jos 19:25 (= depression, basin, valley? cf. Arabic بَطْنٌ, Lane220 col. 3) = Βατναί, called Βεθβετεν cf. LagOnom. 236, 2nd ed. 249; 𝔊 Βαιθοκ, 𝔊L Βετελ.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (2 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «בֶּטֶן» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/991/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 19:25](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.19.25/)

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וַיְהִ֖י גְּבוּלָ֑ם חֶלְקַ֥ת וַחֲלִ֖י וָבֶ֥טֶן וְאַכְשָֽׁף׃

*Word for word:* and it.was border their Helkath and Hali and Beten and Acshaph

*JPS 1917:* And their border was Helkath, and Hali, and Beten, and Achshaph;

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