בֵּרוֹתָה
Bêrôwthâh · bay-ro-thaw'
Berothah or Berothai, a place north of Palestine
Lexicon
Derivation: or בֵּרֹתַי; probably from H1266 (בְּרוֹת)lemma בֻּרוֹת first vowel, corrected to בְּרוֹת; cypress or cypresslike;
Berothah or Berothai, a place north of Palestine
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Berothah, Berothai.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- וVav6
Picture: tent peg or hook
- Concrete
- nail · peg · hook
- Extended
- to fasten · to secure · to establish · and (joining)
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › the head, the highest › to fasten and establish › the mark, the covenant sign › to reveal, behold
The house, what is within of the head, the highest that works to fasten and establish of the mark, the covenant sign that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בֵּרוֹתָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
2 occurrences · 2 OT · 0 NT · 2 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and from berothai1 · 50%
- berothah1 · 50%
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.