Bether

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division, or in the trial
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


BETHER (‘mountains of cutting’—or ‘of divisions,’ Son_2:17).—If a proper name, the famous site of Bether, near Jerusalem, might be intended. Bether is celebrated for the resistance of the Jews to Hadrian under Bar Cochba in a.d. 135. The site was recognized by Canon Williams at Bittîr, south-west of Jerusalem—a village on a cliff in a strong position, with a ruin near it called ‘Ruin of the Jews,’ from a tradition of a great Jewish massacre at this place. See Malobathron.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


Son_2:17. Perhaps Bithron, separated from the main part of Palestine by Jordan (2Sa_2:29), a ravine district, through "all" of which Abner passed, on the N. of the Jabbok, between the Jordan and Mahanaim. It means a cutting. Spiritually "the mountains of Bether" mean mountains of division (margin), or mountains intersected with deep valleys, separating the bride from the heavenly Bridegroom.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Be'ther. (depth). The mountains of Bether. Son_2:17. There is no clue to guide us as to what mountains are intended here.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


bē?thẽr (בּתר, bether): In Son_2:17 mention is made of ?the mountains of Bether.? It is doubtful if a proper name is intended. The Revised Version, margin has, ?perhaps, the spice malobathron.? A Bether is prominent in late Jewish history as the place where the Jews resisted Hadrian under Bar Cochba in 135 ad. Its identity with Bittı̄r, 7 miles Southwest of Jerusalem, is attested by an inscription.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Be′ther. The Mountains of Bether are only mentioned in Son_2:17; Son_8:14; and no place called Bether occurs elsewhere. The word means, properly, dissection. The mountains of Bether may therefore be mountains of disjunction, of separation, etc., that is, mountains cut up, divided by ravines, etc.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Bether
(Heb. id. בֶּתֶר), the name of certain “mountains” mentioned only in Son_2:17. The word means, properly, dissection (as in Gen_5:10; Jer_34:18-19, “piece”); the mountains of Bether may therefore be mountains of disjunction, of separation, that is, mountains cut up, divided by ravines, etc. The Sept. gives ὄρη κοιλωμάτων, mountains of hollows in this sense. They may be the same with those rendered mountains of spices” in 8:14, from the growth of trees from which odorous gums distilled. SEE BITHRON.
If it be the name of a place, it may possibly be identical with the Bether where the impostor Barcocheba (q.v.) was at last overcome by Hadrian (see the Zemach David, cited by Eisenmenger, Entdeck. Judenth. 2, 656), a strongly fortified city (see Buxtorf, Lex. Talm. col. 371, where the Hebrews form is given בִּיתֵר, Bither, Chald. בִּתְרָא, Bithra; the correct pointing being perhaps בִּיתִר, i.e. Baethar, for בֵּיתאּתִּר, Beth-Tar, Lat. Bether, Biter, etc.), not far from Jerusalem (Βίθθηρα, Eusebius, Hist. Ecclesiastes 4, 6). For the history of the campaign at this place, see Minter, Jud. Krieg, § 20, translated under the title “Jewish War under Adrian,” in the Bibliotheca Sacra, 1843, p. 393 sq.; and for notices of the place, see the editor's remarks appended to the translation, p. 456 sq. The locality is thought by Dr. Robinson (Later Bib. Researches, p. 266-271) to be identical with that of the Benjamite Bethel (q.v.), the modern Beitin; but Williams (Holy City, 2, 210) and Stewart (Tent and Khan, p. 347), apparently with better reason, fix it in the present village Bittir, two hours W.S.W. of Jerusalem (Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 295). This latter position also seems to agree with that of a Bether (Βαιθήρ, i.e. Baether, v. r. Θηθήρ) mentioned by the Sept. in Jos_15:59, among the names of an additional group of eleven towns near Bethlehem, in the tribe of Judah (q.v.), thought by some to have accidentally dropped from the Hebrews text (see Keil, Comment. in loc.).
Evidently different from this place was a Bether (with the same orthography) mentioned in the Talmud as lying four Roman miles from the sea (see Reland, Palaest. p. 639), the Betarum (of the Itin. Anton. and Hieros.) on the way from Caesarea to Antipatris; now probably the village of Barin, about 1½ hour south of Kakun (Schwarz, Palest. p. 144; Van de Velde, Memoir, p. 295).



CYCLOPEDIA OF BIBLICAL, THEOLOGICAL AND ECCLESIASTICAL
press 1895.





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