Strong's Definition
the same as 1335; Bether, a (craggy) place in Palestine
KJV Usage: Bether
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בֶּ֫תֶר (be.ter) — cleft.
§ Bether = "cleft" a mountainous region in Palestine
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
noun m · בתר
Non-Whole
piece, half = one part of an object that has been divided an object into two halves
Shape
cleft meaning unsure: possibly: = state in which an object looks as if it has been divided into two
noun m
1 SNG 2:17 · SNG 8:14 LXX "ὄρη κοιλωμάτων" RSV NIV "rugged mountains" NRSV ESV "cleft mountains" = [1] | VUL "montes Bether" NJB GNT "mountains of Bether" = [2] | NJPS "hills of spices" REB "the hill where aromatic spices grow" = בְּשָּׂמִים (see )
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[בֶ֫תֶר] n.m. part, piece always of halves of animals cut in two in making covenants.
mountains of cutting, i.e. cleft mountains
base
