Cleft
בֶּ֫תֶרStrong’s H1336beter (be-ter)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Beter is the Hebrew word usually translated “ravine”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Until the day break, and the shadows flee away, turn, my beloved, and be thou like a roe or a young hart upon the mountains of Bether.”
Meaning
- § Bether = "cleft"
How it's translated
- ravine 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Song of Solomon 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בֶּ֫תֶר beter · cleft
§ Bether = "cleft" a mountainous region in Palestine
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “cleft” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CLEFT, participle passive
of cleave. Divided; split; parted asunder.
All definitions and other forms of “cleft”
CLEFT, noun
- A space or opening made by splitting; a crack; a crevice; as the cleft of a rock. Isaiah 2:21
- A disease in horses; a crack on the bought of the pastern.
- A piece made by splitting; as a cleft of wood.
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.