בין

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See also: בּין

Hebrew

Root
ב־י־ן (b-y-n)

Etymology

Compare Arabic بَيْنَ (bayna) and Aramaic 𐡁𐡉𐡍 (byn /⁠bēn⁠/).

Pronunciation

Preposition

בֵּין • (ben)

  1. Between, among, amid.
    • a. 400 B.C.E., Exodus 31:17:
      בֵּינִי וּבֵין בְּנֵי יִשְׂרָאֵל אוֹת הִוא לְעֹלָם […]
      bení uvén b'né yisra'él ot hi l'olám
      It is a sign between me and the children of Israel for ever: [1]
    • (Can we date this quote?) prayer said at Havdalah:
      ברוך אתה […] המבדיל בין קודש לחול, בין אור לחושך, בין ישראל לעמים, בין יום השביעי לששת ימי המעשה.
      barúkh atá hamavdíl ben kódesh l'khól, ben or l'khóshekh, ben yisra'él la'amím, ben yom hash'vi'í l'shéshet y'mé hama'asé.
      Blessed are You who distinguish between holy and profane, between light and darkness, between Israel and the nations, between the seventh day (Saturday) and the six days of creation.
    • 2009 November 16, דליה מזור (Dalia Mazor), “בקרוב: כביש 1 ייסגר למשאיות בשעות הבוקר” (“Soon: Highway 1 closed to trucks in the morning”), in מעריבnrg:
      […] תיאסר נסיעת משאיות במשקל של יותר מ־12 טון, בקטע שבין שער הגיא ומחלף שורש לירושלים בין השעות 06:30 עד 09:30.
      te'asér n'si'át masa'iyót b'mishkál shel yotér mi-12 ton, bakéta' sheben shá'ar hagáy umekhláf shóresh lirushaláyim ben hasha'ót 06:30 ad 09:30.
      Passage of trucks over 12 tons will be forbidden in the section between Sha'ar HaGai and Shoresh and Jerusalem between the hours of 06:30 and 09:30.

Usage notes

  • A variety of terms may separate the two elements introduced by בין. The most common is probably ל־ (l'-, “to”) — as in, bēn X l'-Y — but the above quotations also demonstrate ובין (uvén, “and between”) and עד (ad, “until”), and לבין (l'ven, “to between”) and ו־ (v'-, “and”) exist as well.

Inflection

Inflection table
Non-personal-pronoun-including form בֵּין (bén)
Personal-pronoun-
including forms		 Singular Plural
Masculine Feminine Masculine Feminine
First person בֵּינִי (bení) בֵּינֵינוּ (benénu)1
Second person בֵּינְךָ (benkhá) בֵּינֵךְ (benékh) בֵּינֵיכֶם (benekhém)1 בֵּינֵיכֶן (benekhén)1
Third person בֵּינוֹ (benó) בֵּינָהּ (benáh) בֵּינָם (benám)
בֵּינֵיהֶם (benehém)1		 בֵּינֵיהֶן (benehén)1
Notes
  1. The forms for the plural pronouns use the plural stem בֵּינֵי (bené).

Derived terms

Further reading

References

  1. ^ Authorized King James translation (1611).

Anagrams

Yiddish

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

From Middle High German bine, from Old High German bini. Compare German Biene.

Noun

בין • (bin) f, plural בינען (binen)

  1. bee

Etymology 2

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

בין • (bin)

  1. first-person singular present of זײַן (zayn); am
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