be.tach is used as the name of a city from which David took bronze.

The attested use is a proper place name: in 2 Samuel 8:8 it names one of the cities associated with Hadadezer from which David took bronze.

1. A city named in David's campaign · dominant

   The form is tagged as a proper noun in 2 Samuel 8:8, where it occurs in the clause naming Betah and Berothai as cities of Hadadezer. In 2 Samuel 8:8 the APB renders the verse, “From Betah and from Berothai, cities of Hadadezer, King David took a great quantity of bronze.”

   2 Samuel 8:8

In the Anselm Project Bible: In 2 Samuel 8:8, the APB presents the term as “Betah” in a list of cities. It confirms the verse’s place-name setting rather than supplying a separate lexical rendering.