Word

בֶּתֶר

bether · H1335 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences

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Meanings

piece, half

One part of an object that has been divided an object 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.
Jeremiah 34:18 ‘I will give the people who have violated My covenant, who have not fulfilled the words of the covenant which they made before Me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts—
Jeremiah 34:19 the officials of Judah and the officials of Jerusalem, the high officials and the priests, and all the people of the land who passed between the parts of the calf—

How it’s used In 3 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

3 occurrences in 2 groups

הוּhis 2
עֵגֶלmale calf 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נָתַןto give, to put, to set 1

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 1 groups

בֵּיןbetween, among 4

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.

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.

Near synonyms 2 words

גֶּזֶר gezer · H1506 · piece: Both lexemes share the identical sense 'part, piece' — genuinely overlapping Hebrew words both denoting a cut portion or piece, which is exactly the pattern expected of a real near-synonym relationship.
בָּדָל bâdâl · H915 · corner, piece, tip: בֶּתֶר (3×) appears to emphasize a severed or divided part (often in covenant ritual contexts), while בָּדָל (1×) is a rarer term for a piece or portion with less specified usage context.

Semantic domains 3 entries

Non-Whole002003001021: בֶּתֶר names a cut piece or part of something divided, as in the halved animal carcasses of Genesis 15:10 and the pieces of the covenant calf in Jeremiah 34:18.
Shape002001001052: גֶּזֶר denotes a piece or part of something divided, as at Genesis 15:10 — Abram "cut them in two, and laid each half opposite the other" — the resulting pieces (גֶּזֶר) matching this domain's sense of a shape formed by division.
Names of Landforms003001008: This code is inherited from the shared listing with the place name בֶּתֶר (Bether, H1336) (Bether); it does not independently apply to the common noun's own attested sense.

Word family 2 words

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

בָּתַר bâthar · H1334 · to cut in half, to cut in two · 2×בֶּתֶרbether · H1335

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H1335. bether [בֶּ֫תֶר] noun masculineGen 15:10 part, piece. 1 בִּתְרוֺ Gen 15:10; plural…

H1335. bether
[בֶּ֫תֶר] noun masculineGen 15:10 part, piece.
1 בִּתְרוֺ Gen 15:10; plural suffix בְּתָרָיו Jer 34:18, הָעֵגֶל בִּתְרֵי Jer 34:19; always of halves of animals cut in two in making covenants.
2 בָּ֑תֶר הָרֵי Son 2:17 mountains of cutting, i.e. cleft mountains ᵐ5 Thes and others; or of separation (between us) Ew and others; according to WeProl. 415, Eng. Tr. 391 ׳ב = malobathron. — Bether as proper name AV RV.

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

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Shape0 occurrences Non-Whole3 occurrences Names of Landforms0 occurrences

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