H1307 H1307
Berotite - gentilicial denoting a person from Beeroth, a Benjaminite town
This is a gentilicial adjective identifying someone as coming from Beeroth, a town in Benjamin's territory. The term appears in lists of David's mighty men, where several warriors are identified by their hometown. The variant spelling הַבֵּרֹתִי appears in Chronicles, showing the flexible orthography typical of Hebrew place-name derivatives.
Senses
1. sense 1 — The lone occurrence in 1 Chronicles 11:39 identifies Naharai the armor-bearer of Joab as a Berotite. Cross-linguistic evidence shows translators rendering this as a proper ethnic designation, with some versions (French, German) simply preserving the Hebrew form untranslated, recognizing it as a technical term for geographic origin. 1×
AR["البَئِيرُوتِي"]·ben["বেরোথীয়"]·DE["[הברתי]"]·EN["the-Berotite"]·FR["[הברתי]"]·heb["ה-ברתי"]·HI["बेरोती"]·ID["orang-Beerot"]·IT["[הברתי]"]·jav["tiyang-Bérot"]·KO["그-베에롯-사람"]·PT["o-beerotita"]·RU["бееротитянин"]·ES["el-berotita"]·SW["Mberothi"]·TR["Beerotlu"]·urd["بیروتی"]
Related Senses
G3588 1. definite article (18298×)H0853 1. definite direct object marker (10915×)G2532 1. (8312×)H3068 1. YHWH (the divine name) (6522×)H0834a 1. relative pronoun (who/which/that) (4839×)H3588a 1. causal: because, for (3498×)G1161 1. and (2806×)H3478 1. Israel (proper name and nation) (2507×)G4771 1. you (plural address) (1853×)H1931 1. personal pronoun he/she/it (1431×)G3739 1. relative pronoun who/which/that (1149×)H1732 1. David (proper name) (1075×)H2088 1. this, this one (demonstrative) (1059×)G1063 1. (1047×)G3778 1. this thing, these things (1003×)H???? 2. (1002×)G2424 1. (924×)G3754 1. that (content clause) (881×)H2009 1. presentative particle: behold, look (881×)H0589 1. I (first person singular pronoun) (874×)
BDB / Lexicon Reference
† בְאֵרֹתִי adj.gent. always c. art. 2 S 4:2, 5, 9, 23:37 = הַבֵּרֹתִי 1 Ch 11:39; pl. הַבְּאֵרֹתִים 2 S 4:3.