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בָּתַר

ba.tar

to cut up

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Strong’s H1334Verb2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

he cut in pieces1

he cut in two1

In the text

Genesis 15:10וַיְבַתֵּר
So Abram brought all these to Him, split each of them down the middle, and laid the halves opposite each other. The birds, however, he did not cut in half.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[בָּתַר] vb. cut in two

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.