בַּ֫יִן
ba.yin
between
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# בַּיִן (bayin): "Between" The Hebrew word *bayin* appears 381 times in the biblical text and functions as a preposition meaning "between." This straightforward spatial term describes the location or relationship of entities positioned in the middle space separating two or more things. Its high frequency of occurrence reflects how commonly biblical narratives and legal discourse needed to establish spatial relationships and distinctions. The word's prevalence across 381 occurrences suggests it served as a foundational concept in Hebrew expression, whether describing physical locations, temporal divisions, or abstract separations. This consistent usage indicates that the notion of positioning something "between" other things was central to how biblical writers organized their descriptions of the world and conveyed meaning. The term's utility across various narrative, legal, and poetic contexts demonstrates its linguistic importance as a basic relational marker in biblical Hebrew.
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Occurrences in Scripture
381 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.
2 Chronicles 23:16Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.
2 Chronicles 23:16Jehoiada made a covenant between himself, all the people, and the king, that they should be Yahweh’s people.
Nehemiah 3:32Between the ascent of the corner and the sheep gate, the goldsmiths and the merchants made repairs.
Nehemiah 5:18Now that which was prepared for one day was one ox and six choice sheep. Also fowls were prepared for me, and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine. Yet for all this, I didn’t demand the governor’s pay, because the bondage was heavy on this people.
Job 9:33There is no umpire between us, that might lay his hand on us both.
Job 30:7They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles .
Job 34:37For he adds rebellion to his sin. He claps his hands among us, and multiplies his words against God.”
Job 41:16One is so near to another, that no air can come between them.
Psalms 104:10He sends springs into the valleys. They run among the mountains.
Proverbs 6:19a false witness who utters lies, and he who sows discord among brothers.
Proverbs 14:9Fools mock at making atonement for sins, but among the upright there is good will.
Proverbs 18:18The lot settles disputes, and keeps strong ones apart.
Proverbs 26:13The sluggard says, “There is a lion in the road! A fierce lion roams the streets!”
Song of Solomon 1:13My beloved is to me a sachet of myrrh, that lies between my breasts.
Isaiah 2:4He will judge between the nations, and will decide concerning many peoples. They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation shall not lift up sword against nation, neither shall they learn war any more.
Isaiah 5:3“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Isaiah 5:3“Now, inhabitants of Jerusalem and men of Judah, please judge between me and my vineyard.
Numbers 28:4You shall offer the one lamb in the morning, and you shall offer the other lamb at evening,
Isaiah 22:11You also made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool. But you didn’t look to him who had done this, neither did you have respect for him who planed it long ago.
Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Isaiah 59:2But your iniquities have separated you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you, so that he will not hear.
Jeremiah 7:5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Jeremiah 7:5For if you thoroughly amend your ways and your doings, if you thoroughly execute justice between a man and his neighbor;
Jeremiah 34:18I will give the men who have transgressed my covenant, who have not performed the words of the covenant which they made before me, when they cut the calf in two and passed between its parts:
Jeremiah 34:19the princes of Judah, the princes of Jerusalem, the eunuchs, the priests, and all the people of the land, who passed between the parts of the calf;
Jeremiah 39:4When Zedekiah the king of Judah and all the men of war saw them, then they fled, and went out of the city by night, by the way of the king’s garden, through the gate between the two walls; and he went out toward the Arabah.
Jeremiah 48:45“Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire has gone out of Heshbon, and a flame from the middle of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
Jeremiah 52:7Then a breach was made in the city, and all the men of war fled, and went out of the city by night by the way of the gate between the two walls, which was by the king’s garden. Now the Chaldeans were against the city all around. The men of war went toward the Arabah,
Lamentations 1:17Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
Ezekiel 4:3Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 4:3Take for yourself an iron pan, and set it for a wall of iron between you and the city. Then set your face toward it. It will be besieged, and you shall lay siege against it. This shall be a sign to the house of Israel.
Ezekiel 8:3He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
Ezekiel 8:3He stretched out the form of a hand, and took me by a lock of my head; and the Spirit lifted me up between earth and the sky, and brought me in the visions of God to Jerusalem, to the door of the gate of the inner court that looks toward the north; where there was the seat of the image of jealousy, which provokes to jealousy.
Ezekiel 8:16He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.
Ezekiel 8:16He brought me into the inner court of Yahweh’s house; and I saw at the door of Yahweh’s temple, between the porch and the altar, there were about twenty-five men, with their backs toward Yahweh’s temple, and their faces toward the east. They were worshiping the sun toward the east.
Ezekiel 10:6It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
Ezekiel 10:6It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim,” that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
Ezekiel 10:7The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
Ezekiel 10:7The cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took some of it, and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
Ezekiel 18:8he who hasn’t lent to them with interest, hasn’t taken any increase from them, who has withdrawn his hand from iniquity, has executed true justice between man and man,
Ezekiel 19:11It had strong branches for the scepters of those who ruled. Their stature was exalted among the thick boughs. They were seen in their height with the multitude of their branches.
Ezekiel 20:12Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
Ezekiel 20:12Moreover also I gave them my Sabbaths, to be a sign between me and them, that they might know that I am Yahweh who sanctifies them.
Ezekiel 20:20Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’
Ezekiel 20:20Make my Sabbaths holy. They shall be a sign between me and you, that you may know that I am Yahweh your God.’
Ezekiel 22:26Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.
Ezekiel 22:26Her priests have done violence to my law, and have profaned my holy things. They have made no distinction between the holy and the common, neither have they caused men to discern between the unclean and the clean, and have hidden their eyes from my Sabbaths. So I am profaned among them.
Ezekiel 34:17“As for you, O my flock, the Lord Yahweh says: ‘Behold, I judge between sheep and sheep, the rams and the male goats.
Ezekiel 34:20“Therefore the Lord Yahweh says to them: ‘Behold, I, even I, will judge between the fat sheep and the lean sheep.