בֶּתֶר

beter · half, piece

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H1335 · appears 3 times in the Bible

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What it means

beter (בֶּתֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “half, piece”.

Half, each of two parts into which something is cut.

How to say it

be·ter

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

  1. Each part of an animal cut in two.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

  • halves ×2
  • half ×1

Related words

Words that come from it

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

  • Genesis 15:10

    He brought him all these and cut them in two down the middle, and laid each half opposite the other; but the birds he did not cut in two.

  • Jeremiah 34:18

    And I will make the men who transgressed my covenant, who did not carry out the words of the covenant that they made before me, like the calf that they cut in two and passed between its halves:

  • Jeremiah 34:19

    the princes of Judah and the princes of Jerusalem, the court officials and the priests and all the people of the land who passed between the halves of the calf;