also in addressing Isr. as a whole (masc. sf. ) Dt 7:13 ; 28:4 , 11 , 18 , 53 ; 30:9 , cf.
מַחֲמַדֵּי בִטְנָם Ho 9:16 beloved ones of their womb; מִן־הַבֶּטֶן ( מִבֶּטֶן ) = from birth Ju 13: 5, 7 ψ 58:4 ; 71:6 , cf. also Is 44:2 , 24 ; 46:3 ( || רָ˜חַם ) 48:8 ; 49:1 , 5 ; מִבֶּטֶן אִמִּי id. Ju 16:17 Jb 31:18 ψ 22:11 ( || רֶחֶם ). 4. architectural word of some rounded projection connected with the two pillars Jachin & Boaz bell, cushion 1 K 7:2 0.
• II . בֶּ˜טֶן S 990, 991 TWOT 236a GK 1061, 1062 n.pr.loc. city in Asher Jos 19:25 ( = depression, basin, valley ? cf. Arabic بَطْنٌ ( baṭnun ), Lane 220 col. 3 ) = Βατναί , called Βεθβετεν cf. Lag Onom. 236, 2nd ed. 249 ; Ö Βαιθοκ , Ö L Βετελ .
בטן
TWOT
236, 237
(
assumed as
√
of following; meaning unknown
)
.
•
בָּטְנִים
S
992
TWOT
237a
GK
1063
n.
[
m.
]
pl.
pistachio
, an oval nut
(
cf. Assyrian
buṭnu
COT
Gloss &
Schr
MBAk
1881, 419
, Aramaic
בּוּטְנָא
,
ܒܶܛܡܬܳܐ
(
beṭmto
), Arabic
بُطْمٌ
(
buṭmun
); on Punic
βουτνούµ
Blau
ZMG
1873, 527
)
=
pistacia terebinthus
Rob
BR i. 208, ii. 222
,
Post
PEF Oct. 1888, 218,
No.
214
f.
;
Tr
. Vict. Inst. xxii. 271 etc.
(
pist. vera
Löw
No.
44
);
Gn 43:11
one of the articles carried from Canaan to Egypt by sons of Jacob as present to Joseph; still a delicacy in Egypt and Syria,
cf.
Wetzst
in
Löw
p. 420.
• בְּטֹנִים S 993 GK 1064 n.pr.loc. city of Gad, E. of Jordan Jos 13:26 , mod. Baṭne , W. of Es-Salṭ ( v.d.Velde Memoir 298) = Βοτνία cf. Lag Onom. 234, 2nd ed. 247 .
Gloss glossary, rarely = a gloss. Schr E. Schrader.
MBAk Monatsbericht d. Berliner Akad. D. Wissenschaften . Post G. E. Post.
PEF Pal. Explor. Fund, usually circa., Quart. Statemnt.
No. number.
Tr
Transactions.
Wetzst
J. G. Wetzstein
v.d.Velde
C. W. M. van de Velde, Memoir to accompany Map of Holy Land constructed by C. W. M. can de Velde.
II.