בֵּין
bêyn · H997 · Aramaic · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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between, among
The area separating two or mores locations
ExamplesDaniel 7:5 “And behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear. And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth; and they said this to it: ‘Arise, devour much meat!’
Daniel 7:8 “While I was thinking about the horns, behold, another horn, a little one, came up among them, and three of the previous horns were plucked out before it; and behold, this horn possessed eyes like human eyes, and a mouth uttering great boasts.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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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Near synonyms 1 word
- תָּוֶךְ tâvek · H8432 · middle, between, midst
- תָּוֶךְ denotes the interior or midst of something, overlapping semantically with בֵּין when indicating position among or in the middle of entities, though תָּוֶךְ emphasizes interior location while בֵּין emphasizes the relational space between distinct entities.
In the other Testament 1 word
- μεταξύ metaxý · G3342 · between, between … and
- μεταξύ is the standard Greek preposition denoting spatial or temporal position between two points or among entities, directly equivalent to בֵּין in its core prepositional sense of 'between' or 'among'.
Semantic domains 4 entries
- Space002002001017
- Daniel 7:5 recounts Daniel's vision, “another beast, a second one, resembling a bear...and three ribs were in its mouth between its teeth.”
- Time002002002010
- This Time code is inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping with the far more frequent Hebrew form (בֵּין (bêyn, H996)), whose “between (periods of time)” sense is well attested; both of this word's own occurrences in Daniel 7 are purely spatial (between/among physical objects), never temporal.
- Occurrence002002003
- This Occurrence code is likewise inherited from the shared lemma-cluster grouping's “between (two events)” sense; neither of this word's own occurrences relates to events, only to physical spatial position.
- Connection002003
- This Connection code is inherited from the same shared lemma-cluster grouping's “between (two parties)” relational sense; this word's own two occurrences show only physical betweenness (teeth, a group of beasts), never a relationship between named parties.
Word family 8 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
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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