Bible dictionaries

Bether

What Bible dictionaries say about “Bether”, one article after the other.

Easton’s Bible Dictionary & Webster’s 1828 Dictionary

Bether - (Easton's Bible Dictionary)

Dissection or separation, certain mountains mentioned in Cant. 2:17; probably near Lebanon.

Matthew George Easton, Easton’s Bible Dictionary; Noah Webster, American Dictionary of the English Language (1828)

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia (ISBE 1915)

be'-ther (bether): In So 2:17 mention is made of "the mountains of Bether." It is doubtful if a proper name is intended. The Revised Version, margin has, "perhaps, the spice malobathron." A Bether is prominent in late Jewish history as the place where the Jews resisted Hadrian under Bar Cochba in 135 AD. Its identity with Bittir, 7 miles Southwest of Jerusalem, is attested by an inscription.

International Standard Bible Encyclopedia — James Orr, general editor and contributors; CrossWire SWORD module ISBE 2.2

The article in ISBE 1915

Smith’s Bible Dictionary

(depth), The mountains of. (Solomon 2:17) There is no clue to guide us as to what mountains are intended here.

William Smith; revised by F. N. Peloubet and M. A. Peloubet; CrossWire SWORD module Smith 1.3

The article in Smith