ba.yin marks the relation or space separating two people, places, objects, or contrasted matters.

As a preposition, ba.yin marks an intervening relation: spatially, something may stand or lie between two locations or objects; relationally, war, peace, covenants, and judgments are described between parties or alternatives.

1. Preposition marking an intervening relation · dominant

   The supplied forms are tagged Preposition. In 1 Samuel 17:3 the APB renders a valley "between them," while 1 Kings 15:19 renders a covenant "between me and you" and "between my father and your father"; 1 Kings 3:9 places good and evil on either side of discernment. The same relation also marks physical placement, as in 1 Chronicles 21:16, where the messenger stands "between the land and the heavens."

   1 Samuel 17:31 Kings 15:191 Kings 3:91 Chronicles 21:161 Kings 22:342 Kings 16:14

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the sampled verses, the APB commonly presents the relation with "between," including spatial positions, conflict or covenant between parties, and discernment between alternatives. These renderings confirm the clauses' relations rather than isolate an English equivalent in every instance.