Definition
(sometimes in the plural masculine or feminine); properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from H995; a distinction; but used only as a preposition, between (repeated before each noun, often with other particles); also as a conjunction, either...or
Traditional renderings: among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), × in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.
Traditional renderings: among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), × in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.
In the Greek Old Testament
How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders בַּ֫יִן:
Usage patterns
Occurrences
407 total
- Deuteronomy 1:16בֵּין־ · the disputes between; בֵּֽין־ · between; וּבֵין־; וּבֵ֥יןAt that time I charged your judges: “Hear the disputes between your brothers, and judge fairly between a man and his brother or a foreign resident.
- Deuteronomy 5:5בֵּין־ · between; וּבֵֽינֵיכֶם֙ · and youAt that time I was standing between the LORD and you to declare to you the word of the LORD, because you were afraid of the fire and would not go up the mountain. And He said:
- Deuteronomy 6:8בֵּ֥ין · on your foreheadsTie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Deuteronomy 11:18בֵּ֥ין · on your foreheadsFix these words of mine in your hearts and minds; tie them as reminders on your hands and bind them on your foreheads.
- Deuteronomy 14:1בֵּ֥ין · your foreheadsYou are sons of the LORD your God; do not cut yourselves or shave your foreheads on behalf of the dead,
- Deuteronomy 17:8בֵּֽין־ · is regarding; בֵּֽין־; וּבֵ֥יןIf a case is too difficult for you to judge, whether the controversy within your gates is regarding bloodshed, lawsuits, or assaults, you must go up to the place the LORD your God will choose.
- Deuteronomy 25:1בֵּ֣ין · betweenIf there is a dispute between men, they are to go to court to be judged, so that the innocent may be acquitted and the guilty condemned.
- Deuteronomy 28:57מִבֵּ֣ין · from between…the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
- Deuteronomy 33:12וּבֵ֥יןConcerning Benjamin he said: “May the beloved of the LORD rest secure in Him; God shields him all day long, and upon His shoulders he rests.”
- Joshua 3:4בֵּֽינֵיכֶם֙ · between yourselves; וּבֵינוֹ · and the arkBut keep a distance of about two thousand cubits between yourselves and the ark. Do not go near it, so that you can see the way to go, since you have never traveled this way before.”
- Joshua 8:9בֵּ֧ין · between; וּבֵ֥ין · andSo Joshua sent them out, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai. But Joshua spent that night among the people.
- Joshua 8:11בֵּינוֹ · between them; וּבֵין־Then all the troops who were with him marched up and approached the city. They arrived in front of Ai and camped to the north of it, with the valley between them and the city.
- Joshua 8:12בֵּ֧ין · between; וּבֵ֥ין · andNow Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set up an ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city.
- Joshua 18:11בֵּ֚ין · between; וּבֵ֖ין · andThe first lot came up for the clans of the tribe of Benjamin. Their allotted territory lay between the tribes of Judah and Joseph:
- Joshua 22:25בֵּינֵ֨נוּ · between us; וּבֵינֵיכֶ֜ם · and youFor the LORD has made the Jordan a border between us and you Reubenites and Gadites. You have no share in the LORD!’ So your descendants could cause ours to stop fearing the LORD.
- Joshua 22:27בֵּינֵ֣ינוּ · between us; וּבֵינֵיכֶ֗ם · and you; וּבֵ֣ין · andRather, let it be a witness between us and you and the generations to come, that we will worship the LORD in His presence with our burnt offerings, sacrifices, and peace offerings.’ Then in the future, your descendants cannot say to ours, ‘You have no share in the LORD!’
- Joshua 22:28בֵּינֵ֖ינוּ · between us; וּבֵינֵיכֶֽם׃ · and youTherefore we said, ‘If they ever say this to us or to our descendants, we will answer: Look at the replica of the altar of the LORD that our fathers made, not for burnt offerings or sacrifices, but as a witness between us and you.’
- Joshua 22:34בֵּֽינֹתֵ֔ינוּ · between usSo the Reubenites and Gadites named the altar Witness, for they said, “It is a witness between us that the LORD is God.”
- Joshua 24:7בֵּינֵיכֶ֣ם׀ · between; וּבֵ֣יןSo your fathers cried out to the LORD, and He put darkness between you and the Egyptians, over whom He brought the sea and engulfed them. Your very eyes saw what I did to the Egyptians. Then you lived in the wilderness for a long time.
- Judges 4:5בֵּ֧ין · between; וּבֵ֥יןAnd she would sit under the Palm of Deborah between Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim, where the Israelites would go up to her for judgment.
- Judges 4:17בֵּ֚ין · between; וּבֵ֕ין · andMeanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- Judges 5:11בֵּ֚ין · at…the voices of the singers at the watering places. There they shall recount the righteous acts of the LORD, the righteous deeds of His villagers in Israel. Then the people of the LORD went down to the gates:
- Judges 5:16בֵּ֚ין · amongWhy did you sit among the sheepfolds to hear the whistling for the flocks? In the clans of Reuben there was great indecision.
- Judges 5:27בֵּ֣ין · At; בֵּ֤ין · atAt her feet he collapsed, he fell, there he lay still; at her feet he collapsed, he fell; where he collapsed, there he fell dead.
- Judges 9:23בֵּ֣ין · between; וּבֵ֖ין · andGod sent a spirit of animosity between Abimelech and the leaders of Shechem and caused them to treat Abimelech deceitfully,
- Judges 11:10בֵּֽינוֹתֵ֔ינוּAnd the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “The LORD is our witness if we do not do as you say.”
- Judges 11:27בֵּ֚ין · between; וּבֵ֖יןI have not sinned against you, but you have done me wrong by waging war against me. May the LORD, the Judge, decide today between the Israelites and the Ammonites.”
- Judges 13:25בֵּ֥ין · between; וּבֵ֥יןAnd the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him at Mahaneh-dan, between Zorah and Eshtaol.