Part
בֶּ֫תֶרStrong’s H1335beter (be-ter)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beter is the Hebrew word usually translated “piece its”, “pieces its” and “pieces of”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he took unto him all these, and divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against another: but the birds divided he not.”
Meaning
- Part, pieceof the parts of an animal cut in half for a sacrifice
How it's translated
- piece its 1
- pieces its 1
- pieces of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Jeremiah 2
- Genesis 1
2 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Jeremiah 34:18And I will give the men that have transgressed my covenant, which have not performed the words of the covenant which they had made before me, when they cut the calf in twain, and passed between the parts thereof,
- Jeremiah 34:19The princes of Judah, and the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, and the priests, and all the people of the land, which passed between the parts of the calf;
Hebrew dictionary
בֶּ֫תֶר beter · part
1) part, piece 1a) of the parts of an animal cut in half for a sacrifice
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “part” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
P'ART, noun
[Latin pars, partis.]
- A portion, piece or fragment separated from a whole thing; as, to divide an orange into five parts.
- A portion or quantity of a thing not separated in fact, but considered or mentioned by itself.“The people stood at the nether part of the mount” Exodus 19:17
- A portion of number, separated or considered by itself; as a part of the nation or congregation.
- A portion or component particle; as the component parts of a fossil or metal.
All definitions and other forms of “part”
- A portion of man; as the material part or body, or the intellectual part the soul or understanding; the perishable part; the immortal part
- A member.
- Particular division; distinct species or sort belonging to a whole; as all the parts of domestic business or of a manufacture.
- Ingredient in a mingled mass; a portion in a compound.
- That which falls to each in division; share; as, let me bear my part of the danger.
- Proportional quantity; as four parts of lime with three of sand.
- Share; concern; interest.“Sheba said, we have no part in David” 2 Samuel 20:1
- Side; party; interest; faction.
- Something relating or belonging to; that which concerns; as for your part; for his part; for her part
- Share of labor, action or influence; particular office or business.
- Character appropriated in a play.
- Action; conduct.
- In mathematics, such a portion of any quantity, as when taken a certain number of times, will exactly make that quantity.“When he had gone over those parts, and had given them much exhortation, he came into Greece” Acts 20:2
P'ART, verb transitive
[Latin partio.]
- To divide, separate or break; to sever into two or more pieces.
- To divide into shares; to distribute. Acts 2:45
- To separate or disunite, as things which are near each other. Ruth 1:17
- To keep asunder; to separate.
- To separate, as combatants.
- To secern; to secrete.
- In seamen's language, to break; as, the ship parted her cables.
- To separate metals.
P'ART, verb intransitive
To be separated, removed or detached.
- To quit each other.
- To take or bid farewell.
- To have a share.“They shall part alike” 1 Samuel 30:24
- To go away; to depart.
- To break; to be torn asunder.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.