Word

בָּתַר

bâthar · H1334 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. to cut in half, to cut in two

    Causative action by which humans divide objects into two halves

    Examples

    Genesis 15:10 Then he brought all these to Him and cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other; but he did not cut the birds.

How it’s used In 4 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

With adverbsAdverbs

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 1 word
διαιρέω diairéō · G1244 · to divide, to distribute, division
Greek διαιρέω renders Hebrew בָּתַר in contexts of physical division or separation, both terms denoting the act of dividing or cutting apart.
Semantic domains 1 entry
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בָּתַר denotes dividing something into parts, as in Abram cutting the sacrificial animals in two in Genesis 15:10.
Word family 2 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1334. bathar [בָּתַר] verb cut in two (Arabic cut off prematurely; extirpate by cutting)…
H1334. bathar
[בָּתַר] verb cut in two (Arabic cut off prematurely; extirpate by cutting) —
Qal Perfect בָּתָ֑ר Gen 15:10;
Pi`el Imperfect וַיְבַתֵּר Gen 15:10 id.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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