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Lexicon :: Strong's H996 - bayin

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בַּיִן
Transliteration
bayin
Pronunciation
bane
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Part of Speech
masculine substantive (always used as a preposition)
Root Word (Etymology)
(sometimes in the pl. masc. or fem.) properly, the constructive form of an otherwise unused noun from בִּין (H995)
Dictionary Aids

TWOT Reference: 239a

Strong’s Definitions

בֵּין bêyn, bane; (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:—among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), × in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x

The KJV translates Strong's H996 in the following manner: between, betwixt, asunder, within, between, out of, from.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 32x
The KJV translates Strong's H996 in the following manner: between, betwixt, asunder, within, between, out of, from.
  1. between, among, in the midst of (with other preps), from between

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
בֵּין bêyn, bane; (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:—among, asunder, at, between (-twixt...and), + from (the widest), × in, out of, whether (it be...or), within.
STRONGS H996: Abbreviations
[בַּ֫יִן] substantive properly interval, space between (bdb010701 id.) — construct בֵּין onceIsaiah 44:4 (Baer) בֵּן, בֵּינִי, בֵּֽינְךָ, בֵינֵךְ, בֵּינוֺ (בֵּינָיוJoshua 3:4; Joshua 8:11 Qr); with plural suffix in plural form בֵּינֵינוּ (בֵּנֵינוּ), etc.; also בֵּינוֺתEzekiel 10:2 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 10:6 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 10:7 (twice in verse) (+ Ezekiel 1:13 Greek Version of the LXX Hi Ew etc. for דְּמוּת), בֵּינוֺתֵינוּGenesis 26:28; Joshua 22:34; Judges 11:10, בֵּינוֺתָםGenesis 42:23; 2 Samuel 21:7; Jeremiah 25:16; dual בֵּנַיִם (see below); —
1. always (except dual) as preposition in the interval of, between (so Aramaic בֵּין, & plural בֵּינֵי, bdb010702, bdb010703; bdb010704), as Genesis 15:17 בֵּין הַגְּזָרִים between the pieces, Exodus 13:9 and elsewhere בֵּין עֵינֶיךָ between thy eyes (see עַיִן), Isaiah 22:11 and elsewhere between the two walls (see חוֺמָה), Job 24:11; Job 30:7; Job 40:30 [Job 41:6] part him between merchants; rather more generally among Hosea 13:15; Songs 2:2, 3; Ezekiel 19:2; Ezekiel 31:3; Job 34:37; less exactly within Proverbs 26:13 a lion is בֵּין הָֽרְחֹבוֺת within the board places (compare Proverbs 23:13 בְּתוֺךְ): once with a singular (unusual) Daniel 8:16 בֵּין אוּלַי between the Ulai, i.e. between its banks. When the space separating two distinct objects is to be indicated, this is done...
a. most commonly by repeating בין, as Genesis 13:3 בֵּין בֵּיתְאֵל וּבֵין הָעָ֑י literally in the interval of Bethel, and in the interval of `Ai, i.e. between Bethel and `Ai, Genesis 16:14; Genesis 17:7; Genesis 31:50, 51
b. more rarely by בֵּין ֗֗֗ לְ, Genesis 1:6 dividing בֵּין מַיִם לָמָ֑יִם literally in the interval of waters with reference to waters, i.e. between the waters and the waters,Leviticus 20:25; Leviticus 27:33; Deuteronomy 17:8 (3 times in verse); 2 Samuel 19:36; 1 Kings 3:9; Ezekiel 41:18; Ezekiel 42:20; Ezekiel 44:23 (twice in verse); Jonah 4:11; Malachi 3:18 (twice in verse); 2 Chronicles 14:10.
c. by בֵּין ֗֗֗ וּלְJoel 2:17.
d. by בֵּין ֗֗֗ לְבֵיןIsaiah 59:2. בֵּין is used not only of actual locality, but also with verbs of dividing (figurative) Genesis 1:14; Leviticus 10:10, and of judging, knowing, teaching, etc., if the idea of distinguishing be involved, as Genesis 16:5; 2 Samuel 19:36 הַאֵדַע בֵּין טוֺב לְרָע can I discern between good and evil? 1 Kings 3:9; Jonah 4:11; Genesis 31:49 (watch between), Judges 11:10 (hear), Joshua 22:27 (witness), Isaiah 2:4 and he shall judge (arbitrate) between the nations, Isaiah 5:3; Leviticus 27:33; Ezekiel 44:23; Malachi 3:18; 2 Chronicles 14:10 (see RV); and in other metaphoric applications, as of a covenant or sign between two contracting parties, Genesis 9:12, 15; Exodus 31:13 +; or an oath Genesis 26:28; 2 Samuel 21:7; enmity or strife Genesis 3:15; Genesis 13:7; Deuteronomy 25:1; Proverbs 6:19; peace 1 Kings 5:26 [1 Kings 5:12]; good-will Proverbs 14:9. — It is used of time in the phrase of P בֵּין הָעַרְבַּיִם (see below עֶרֶב), & Nehemiah 5:18 בֵּין עֲשֶׂרֶת יָמִים during the interval of ten days, i.e. every ten days (unusual).
With other prepositions: —
a.אֶלבֵּֿין, after a verb implying motion, in between, in among Ezekiel 31:10, 14. So אֶלבֵּֿינוֺת לְ † ib. Ezekiel 10:2.
b.בְּבֵן Isaiah 44:4 in the midst of, amongst (Greek Version of the LXX Ew Di Che כְּבֵין מַיִם חָצִיר).
c.עַלבֵּֿין nearly as אֶלבֵּֿין Ezekiel 19:11
d.מִבֵּין from between: Genesis 49:10 nor the ruler's staff מִבֵּין רַגְלָיו from between his feet (where, as the king sits in state, he holds it), Exodus 25:22 from between the cherubim (so Numbers 7:89), Hosea 2:4; Zechariah 6:1; Zechariah 9:7; Deuteronomy 28:57 the after-birth הַיּוֺצֵת מִבֵּין רַגְלֶיהָ that cometh forth from between her feet, i.e. from her womb (compare Il. 19. 10 πεσεῖν μετὰ ποσσὶ γυναικός) Repeated 2 Kings 16:14 to specify the two objects from between which a thing is moved. Ezekiel 47:18 is difficult and uncertain: see Commentaries. Less precisely from, the midst of: Numbers 17:2 מִבֵּין הַשְּׂרֵפָה out of the midst of the burning, Psalm 104:12 מִבֵּין עֳפָאִים from amongst the branches they utter their song, Jeremiah 48:45 and a flame מִבֵּין סִיחוֺן from the midst of Sihon (Sihon representing his people: but expression is singular; read perhaps מִבֵּית ס׳, compare Numbers 21:28 מִקִּרְיַת ס׳ : || in both passages מֵחֶשְׁבּוֺן), Ezekiel 37:21.
e.מִבֵּינוֺת לְ from between Ezekiel 10:2, 6 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 10:7.
†2. Dual בֵּנַ֫יִם space between two armies (= Greek μεταίχμιον), [H1143 1 Samuel 17:4, 23] אִישׁ הַבֵּנַיִם man of the μεταίχμιον, i.e. champion (of Goliath).

בֵּית feminine of בַּיִן, בֵּין (NöM 194 f.; Syriac bdb010801 often, PS470) preposition between Ezekiel 41:9b (to be joined with Ezekiel 41:10; see RVm), unless indeed a mere error for בֵּין (which Ezekiel often uses); also Proverbs 8:2 accusative to Greek Version of the LXX (ἀνὰ μέσον) Targum Vulgate Hi Ew§217 g; and Job 8:17 according to Greek Version of the LXX Ew Di1 (Di2undecided).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H997.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:6; 1:14; 3:15; 9:12; 9:15; 13:3; 13:7; 15:17; 16:5; 16:14; 17:7; 26:28; 26:28; 31:49; 31:50; 31:51; 42:23; 49:10

Exodus

13:9; 25:22; 31:13

Leviticus

10:10; 20:25; 27:33; 27:33

Numbers

7:89; 17:2; 21:28

Deuteronomy

17:8; 25:1; 28:57

Joshua

3:4; 8:11; 22:27; 22:34

Judges

11:10; 11:10

2 Samuel

19:36; 19:36; 21:7; 21:7

1 Kings

3:9; 3:9; 5:12

2 Kings

16:14

2 Chronicles

14:10; 14:10

Nehemiah

5:18

Job

8:17; 24:11; 30:7; 34:37; 41:6

Psalms

104:12

Proverbs

6:19; 8:2; 14:9; 23:13; 26:13

Song of Songs

2:2; 2:3

Isaiah

2:4; 5:3; 22:11; 44:4; 44:4; 59:2

Jeremiah

25:16; 48:45

Ezekiel

1:13; 10:2; 10:2; 10:2; 10:6; 10:6; 10:7; 10:7; 19:2; 19:11; 31:3; 31:10; 31:14; 37:21; 41:9; 41:10; 41:18; 42:20; 44:23; 44:23; 47:18

Daniel

8:16

Hosea

2:4; 13:15

Joel

2:17

Jonah

4:11; 4:11

Zechariah

6:1; 9:7

Malachi

3:18; 3:18

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H996 matches the Hebrew בַּיִן (bayin),
which occurs 410 times in 248 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 5 (Jos 24:7–2Ki 2:11)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 24:7 - ‘Then they cried out to Yahweh; He put darkness between H996 you and the Egyptians and brought the sea upon them and covered them; and your own eyes saw what I did in Egypt. And you lived in the wilderness for many days.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:5 - And she used to [fn]sit under the palm tree of Deborah between H996 Ramah and Bethel in the hill country of Ephraim; and the sons of Israel came up to her for judgment.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 -

Now Sisera fled away on foot to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between H996 Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:11 -

“At the sound of those who divide flocks among H996 the watering places,

There they shall [fn]commemorate the righteous deeds of Yahweh,

The righteous deeds for His [fn]peasantry in Israel.

Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:16 -

“Why did you sit among H996 the [fn]sheepfolds,

To hear the whistling for the flocks?

Among the divisions of Reuben

There were great probings of the heart.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:27 -

“Between H996 her feet he bowed, he fell, he lay;

Between H996 her feet he bowed, he fell;

Where he bowed, there he fell violently devastated.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:23 - Then God sent an evil spirit between H996 Abimelech and the lords of Shechem; and the lords of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech,
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:10 - And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, “Yahweh is [fn]witness between H996 us; surely we will do [fn]as you have said.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 11:27 - ‘I therefore have not sinned against you, but you are doing me evil by making war against me; may Yahweh, the Judge, judge today between H996 the sons of Israel and the sons of Ammon.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 13:25 - And the Spirit of Yahweh began to stir him in [fn]Mahaneh-dan, between H996 Zorah and Eshtaol.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:4 - So Samson went and caught 300 foxes and took torches and turned the foxes tail to tail and put one torch in the middle between H996 two tails.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:25 -

So it happened when their hearts were merry, that they said, “Call for Samson, that he may amuse us.” So they called for Samson from the prison, and he [fn]entertained them. And they made him stand between H996 the pillars.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:31 - Then his brothers and all his father’s household came down, carried him, brought him up, and buried him between H996 Zorah and Eshtaol, in the tomb of Manoah his father. Thus he had judged Israel twenty years.
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:17 - “Where you die, I will die, and there I will be buried. Thus may Yahweh do to me, and more, if anything but death separates you and me.”
Unchecked Copy BoxRth 2:15 - Then she rose to glean, and Boaz commanded his young men, saying, “Let her glean even among H996 the sheaves, and do not dishonor her.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:12 -

Then Samuel took a stone and set it between H996 Mizpah and Shen, and he named it [fn]Ebenezer. And he said, “Thus far Yahweh has helped us.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 7:14 - And the cities which the Philistines had taken from Israel were restored to Israel, from Ekron even to Gath; and Israel delivered their territory from the hand of the Philistines. So there was peace between H996 Israel and the Amorites.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:4 - Now between H996 the passes by which Jonathan sought to cross over to the Philistines’ garrison, there was a sharp crag on the one side and a sharp crag on the other side, and the name of the one was Bozez, and the name of the other Seneh.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 14:42 - And Saul said, “Cast lots between H996 me and Jonathan my son.” And Jonathan was taken.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:1 -

Now the Philistines gathered their camps for battle; and they were gathered at Socoh which belongs to Judah, and they camped between H996 Socoh and Azekah, in Ephes-dammim.

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:3 - Now the Philistines stood on the mountain on one side while Israel stood on the mountain on the other side, with the valley between H996 them.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 17:6 - He also had bronze [fn]greaves on his legs and a bronze [fn]javelin slung between H996 his shoulders.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:3 - Yet David swore again, [fn]saying, “Your father knows well that I have found favor in your sight, and he has said, ‘Do not let Jonathan know this, lest he be grieved.’ But truly as Yahweh lives and as your soul lives, there is [fn]hardly a step between H996 me and death.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:23 - “As for the [fn]agreement of which you and I have spoken, behold, Yahweh is between H996 you and me forever.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 20:42 - And Jonathan said to David, “Go in peace, inasmuch as we have sworn to each other in the name of Yahweh, saying, ‘Yahweh will be between H996 me and you, and between H996 my seed and your seed forever.’” [fn]Then he rose and departed, while Jonathan went into the city.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:12 - “May Yahweh judge between H996 [fn]you and me, and may Yahweh avenge me on you; but my hand shall not be against you.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 24:15 - “Therefore Yahweh be judge and execute justice between H996 [fn]you and me; and may He see and plead my cause and execute justice for me to escape from your hand.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 26:13 -

Then David crossed over to the other side and stood on top of the mountain at a distance with a large area between H996 them.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:1 -

Now the war between H996 the house of Saul and the house of David was long; and David grew steadily stronger, but the house of Saul grew weaker continually.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 3:6 -

Now it happened, while there was war between H996 the house of Saul and the house of David that Abner was making himself strong in the house of Saul.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:6 - “And your servant-woman had two sons, but the two of them struggled together in the field, and there was no one to deliver between H996 them, so one struck the other and put him to death.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:9 -

Then Absalom happened to meet the servants of David. Now Absalom was riding on his mule, and the mule went under the thick branches of a great oak. And his head caught fast in the oak, so he was [fn]left hanging between H996 heaven and earth, while the mule that was under him passed onward.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 18:24 -

Now David was sitting between H996 the two gates; and the watchman went up to the roof of the gate by the wall, and raised his eyes and looked, and behold, a man running by himself.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 19:35 - “I am [fn]now eighty years old. Can I know between H996 good and bad? Or can your servant taste what I eat or what I drink? Or can I hear anymore the voice of singing men and women? Why then should your servant be an added burden to my lord the king?
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:7 -

But the king spared Mephibosheth, the son of Jonathan the son of Saul, because of the oath of Yahweh which was between H996 them, between H996 David and Saul’s son Jonathan.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:9 - “So give Your slave a listening heart to judge Your people to discern between H996 good and evil. For who is able to [fn]judge this glorious people of Yours?”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 5:12 - Now Yahweh gave wisdom to Solomon, just as He [fn]promised him; and there was peace between H996 Hiram and Solomon, and the two of them cut a covenant.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:28 - Now this was the workmanship of the stands: they had borders, even borders between H996 the [fn]frames,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:29 - and on the borders which were between H996 the [fn]frames were lions, oxen, and cherubim; and on the [fn]frames there was a pedestal above, and beneath the lions and oxen were wreaths of hanging work.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 7:46 - On the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the clay ground between H996 Succoth and Zarethan.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:30 - Now there was war between H996 Rehoboam and Jeroboam all their days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:6 - Now there was war between H996 Rehoboam and Jeroboam all the days of his life.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:7 -

Now the rest of the acts of Abijam and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? And there was war between H996 Abijam and Jeroboam.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:16 -

Now there was war between H996 Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:19 - Let there be a covenant between H996 [fn]you and me, as between H996 my father and your father. Behold, I have sent you a gift of silver and gold; go, break your covenant with Baasha king of Israel so that he will withdraw from me.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:32 - Now there was war between H996 Asa and Baasha king of Israel all their days.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:42 - So Ahab went up to eat and drink. But Elijah went up to the top of Carmel; and he stretched himself down toward the ground and put his face between H996 his knees.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:1 -

So [fn]they lived for three years without war between H996 Aram and Israel.

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:34 -

Now a certain man drew his bow at random and struck the king of Israel [fn]in a joint of the armor. So he said to the driver of his chariot, “Turn [fn]around and take me out of the [fn]fight, for I am severely wounded.”

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:11 - As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire and horses of fire, and it separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a [fn]whirlwind to heaven.

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