The Comprehensive Aramaic Lexicon

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(m p02

with pron. suffixes: ˁamm_; ˁimm_ + sg. suffixes.

  1 with, together with Com. --(a) in the presence of, possession of Com. (a.1) indicating assumption of a debt or receipt of goods OfA-Iran. --(b) governing the indirect object of verbs performed in another's presence Com. (b.1) with a reciprocal party Com.
  2 at Com. --(a) a place Com. --(b) toward or from the location of a something/someone Com.
  3 at the time of BA-Da, Qum, Gal, Syr. --(a) conj.: as soon as Syr, JBA. --(b) with v.n. BA-Ez.
  4 in translations of Greek compounds = συμ- Syr.
  5 as conj: in addition to the fact that, notwithstanding that Syr.

byn p02

byn, byny (bēn, baynay, bēnē) prep. between, among

The distribution of the forms in the Standard literary Aramaic tradition is as follows: The independent form is bēn, but bēnē before plural pronominal suffixes. In PTA, LJLA, and the Babylonian dialects the back-formation ביני becomes the normal independent form. In Syriac onlyܒܲܝܢܲܝ , and this form (as opposed to byt, bynt) is used in our database in older texts almost always only when used in the byny ... l_ construction. In Sam. ביני is relatively rare as an independent form.

  1 between, among Com. --(a) בין ידי : into the hands of (i.e., equivalent to byd elsewhere) PTA, CPA. (a.1) in the possession of CPA, Syr. --(b) לביני : among (allative) JBA. (b.1) מלבין : among a large group, out of Sam. --(c) מביני : from among : see s.v. mn byny .
  2 with two explicit end points Com. --(a) byn ... wbyn ... . --(b) byn ... wl_... Syr.
  3 בין ... בין : whether ... or JLAtg, Gal.