בַּ֫יִן

ba.yinbetweenHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentAdjective407 occurrences32 books247 verses

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.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders בַּ֫יִן:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

407 total
  1. Ezekiel 19:2בֵּ֥ין · among
    …and say: ‘What was your mother? A lioness among the lions! She lay down among the young lions; she reared her cubs.
  2. Ezekiel 19:11בֵּ֣ין
    It had strong branches, fit for a ruler’s scepter. It towered high above the thick branches, conspicuous for its height and for its dense foliage.
  3. Ezekiel 20:12בֵּינִ֖י · between us; וּבֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם
    I also gave them My Sabbaths as a sign between us, so that they would know that I am the LORD who sanctifies them.
  4. Ezekiel 20:20בֵּינִ֣י · between us; וּבֵֽינֵיכֶ֔ם
    Keep My Sabbaths holy, that they may be a sign between us, so that you may know that I am the LORD your God.’
  5. Ezekiel 22:26בֵּֽין־ · between; וּבֵין־ · between
    Her priests do violence to My law and profane My holy things. They make no distinction between the holy and the common, and they fail to distinguish between the clean and the unclean. They disregard My Sabbaths, so that I am profaned among them.
  6. Ezekiel 31:3וּבֵ֣ין · among
    Look at Assyria, a cedar in Lebanon, with beautiful branches that shaded the forest. It towered on high; its top was among the clouds.
  7. Ezekiel 31:10בֵּ֣ין · among
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Since it became great in height and set its top among the clouds, and it grew proud on account of its height,
  8. Ezekiel 31:14בֵּ֣ין · among
    This happened so that no other trees by the waters would become great in height and set their tops among the clouds, and no other well-watered trees would reach them in height. For they have all been consigned to death, to the depths of the earth, among the mortals who descend to the Pit.’
  9. Ezekiel 34:17בֵּֽין־ · between
    This is what the Lord GOD says to you, My flock: ‘I will judge between one sheep and another, between the rams and the goats.
  10. Ezekiel 34:20בֵּֽין־ · between; וּבֵ֥ין · and
    Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says to them: ‘Behold, I Myself will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.
  11. Ezekiel 34:22בֵּ֥ין · between
    I will save My flock, and they will no longer be prey. I will judge between one sheep and another.
  12. Ezekiel 37:21מִבֵּ֥ין · out of
    …you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the Israelites out of the nations to which they have gone, and I will gather them from all around and bring them into their own land.
  13. Ezekiel 40:7וּבֵ֥ין · between
    Each gate chamber was one rod long and one rod wide, and there were five cubits between the gate chambers. The inner threshold of the gate by the portico facing inward was one rod deep.
  14. Ezekiel 41:10וּבֵ֨ין
    …and the outer chambers was twenty cubits wide all around the temple.
  15. Ezekiel 41:18בֵּין־
    …were alternating carved cherubim and palm trees. Each cherub had two faces:
  16. Ezekiel 42:20בֵּ֥ין
    So he measured the area on all four sides. It had a wall all around, five hundred cubits long and five hundred cubits wide, to separate the holy from the common.
  17. Ezekiel 43:8בֵּינִ֣י · between Me and them; וּבֵֽינֵיהֶ֑ם
    When they placed their threshold next to My threshold and their doorposts beside My doorposts, with only a wall between Me and them, they defiled My holy name by the abominations they committed. Therefore I have consumed them in My anger.
  18. Ezekiel 44:23בֵּ֥ין · the difference between; וּבֵין־ · between
    They are to teach My people the difference between the holy and the common and show them how to discern between the clean and the unclean.
  19. Ezekiel 47:16בֵּין־ · [is] on; וּבֵ֖ין
    Berothah, and Sibraim (which is on the border between Damascus and Hamath), as far as Hazer-hatticon, which is on the border of Hauran.
  20. Ezekiel 47:18מִבֵּ֣ין · will run between; וּמִבֵּין־ · and; וּמִבֵּ֨ין · between; וּמִבֵּ֨ין
    On the east side the border will run between Hauran and Damascus, along the Jordan between Gilead and the land of Israel, to the Eastern Sea and as far as Tamar. This will be the eastern boundary.
  21. Ezekiel 48:22בֵּ֣ין׀ · the area between; וּבֵין֙ · and
    So the Levitical property and the city property will lie in the center of the area belonging to the prince—the area between the borders of Judah and Benjamin.
  22. Daniel 8:5בֵּ֥ין · between
    As I was contemplating all this, suddenly a goat with a prominent horn between his eyes came out of the west, crossing the surface of the entire earth without touching the ground.
  23. Daniel 8:16בֵּ֣ין · from between [the banks of]
    And I heard the voice of a man calling from between the banks of the Ulai: “Gabriel, explain the vision to this man.”
  24. Daniel 8:21בֵּין־ · between
    The shaggy goat represents the king of Greece, and the large horn between his eyes is the first king.
  25. Daniel 11:45בֵּ֥ין · between
    He will pitch his royal tents between the sea and the beautiful holy mountain, but he will meet his end with no one to help him.
  26. Hosea 2:2מִבֵּ֥ין · from between
    Rebuke your mother, rebuke her, for she is not My wife, and I am not her husband. Let her remove the adultery from her face and the unfaithfulness from between her breasts.
  27. Joel 2:17בֵּ֤ין · between
    Let the priests who minister before the LORD weep between the portico and the altar, saying, “Spare Your people, O LORD, and do not make Your heritage a reproach, an object of scorn among the nations. Why should they say among the peoples, ‘Where is their God?’”
  28. Obadiah 1:4בֵּ֥ין · among
    Though you soar like the eagle and make your nest among the stars, even from there I will bring you down,” declares the LORD.
  29. Jonah 4:11בֵּין־
    So should I not care about the great city of Nineveh, which has more than 120,000 people who cannot tell their right hand from their left, and many cattle as well?”
  30. Micah 4:3בֵּ֚ין · between
    Then He will judge between many peoples and arbitrate for strong nations far and wide. Then they will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will no longer take up the sword against nation, nor will they train anymore for war.
  31. Zechariah 1:8בֵּ֥ין · among
    I looked out into the night and saw a man riding on a red horse. He was standing among the myrtle trees in the hollow, and behind him were red, sorrel, and white horses.
  32. Zechariah 1:10בֵּין־ · among
    Then the man standing among the myrtle trees explained, “They are the ones the LORD has sent to patrol the earth.”
  33. Zechariah 1:11בֵּ֣ין · among
    And the riders answered the angel of the LORD who was standing among the myrtle trees, “We have patrolled the earth, and behold, all the earth is at rest and tranquil.”
  34. Zechariah 3:7בֵּ֥ין · among
    “This is what the LORD of Hosts says: ‘If you walk in My ways and keep My instructions, then you will govern My house and will also have charge of My courts; and I will give you a place among these who are standing here.
  35. Zechariah 5:9בֵּ֥ין · between; וּבֵ֥ין · and
    Then I lifted up my eyes and saw two women approaching, with the wind in their wings. Their wings were like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth.
  36. Zechariah 6:1מִבֵּ֖ין · from between
    And again I lifted up my eyes and saw four chariots coming out from between two mountains—mountains of bronze.
  37. Zechariah 6:13בֵּ֥ין · between
    Yes, He will build the temple of the LORD; He will be clothed in splendor and will sit on His throne and rule. And He will be a priest on His throne, and there will be peaceful counsel between the two.’
  38. Zechariah 9:7מִבֵּ֣ין · from between
    I will remove the blood from their mouths and the abominations from between their teeth. Then they too will become a remnant for our God; they will become like a clan in Judah, and Ekron will be like the Jebusites.