Core sense — separation; distance; union; and between, amidst, amonggenerated
1enmity, and violent hatred—ذَاتُ البَيْنِ
for the mending of the bad state subsisting between people—لِإِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ
in the mending of the circumstances between the persons concerned—فِى إِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ
the raven of separation—غُرَابُ البَيْنِ
The word has two opposite meanings. One is separation, or disunion [of companions, or friends, or lovers]; the phrases below follow from it.
The second line means: for the settling of discord, enmity, or violent hatred. [But it also has the opposite meaning, as will be seen below; and it is said to have a vague import.]
The third line means this by frequent attention to those circumstances.
Of the fourth line: [the raven whose appearance, or croak, is an omen of separation]. Some say it is the غراب termed أَبْقَعُ [in which is blackness and whiteness, or which has whiteness in the breast], as the poet 'Antarah describes it; or the one that is red in beak and legs. But the black one is called الحَاتِمُ, because, as the Arabs assert, its croak makes separation absolutely unavoidable. [Or it is any species of the corvus.]
Hamzeh says, in his Proverbs, that the name attaches to the غراب because, when the people of a dwelling go away to look for herbage, it alights where their tents stood, searching the sweepings.
But according to the Kádee of Granada, Aboo-'Abd-Allah Esh-Shereef, this name, which occurs so often in poetry, properly means the camels that carry people from one district, or country, to another. He cites these verses: [Those have erred whom I have seen, in ignorance, all of them blaming a croaking raven: the fault is not to be laid on anything but the camels, for they are among the things that scatter and disperse a gathering: truly the place a journey is aimed at is brought near by the raven's lucky omen, but the she-camels break up a united company.] And Ibn-'Abd-Rabbih says: [The raven cried, and I said, A most lying bird, if the grumbling cry of a camel as he is laden does not prove it true.]
shāhid 1غَلِطَ الَّذِينَ رَأَيْتُهُمْ بِجَهَالَةٍيَلْحَوْنَ كُلُّهُمُ غُرَابًا يَنْعَقُمَا الذَّنْبُ إِلَّا لِلْأَبَاعِرِ إِنَّهَامِمَّا يُشَتِّتُ جَمْعَهُمْ وَيُقَرِّقُإِنَّ الغُرَابَ بِيُمْنِهِ تُدْنُو النَّوَىوَتُشَتِّتُ الشَّمْلَ الجَمِيعَ الأَيْنُقُ
shāhid 2زَعَقَ الغُرَابُ فَقُلْتُ أَكْذَبُ طَائِرٍإِن لَّمْ يُصَدِّقْهُ رُغَآءُ بَعِيرِ
1.1between the two countries, or towns, is a distance—بَيْنَ البَلَدَيْنِ بَيْنٌ
between the two of them is a distance—بَيْنَهُمَا بَيْنٌ
Also: distance, by the space or interval between two things.
The second line is used with ى when bodily distance is meant. Or only the third form is used in the case of [literal] distance.
[truly between the two of them is a distance]—إِنَّ بَيْنَهُمَا لَبَيْنٌ
between the two men is a [wide] distance—بَيْنَهُمَا بَيْنٌ بَعِيدٌ
For the fourth line one says also بَوْنٌ بَعِيدٌ, which in this case is the more chaste. The meaning is: between their two degrees of rank or dignity, or between the estimations in which they are commonly held.
[I met him after, or a little after, an interval]—لَقِيتُهُ بُعَيْدَاتِ بَيْنٍ
[In the last line بين denotes an interval of time.] It is said when you have met him after a while, then kept away from him, then come to him again. [See also بَعْدُ.]
2the state of union, or concord, or love, between a people, or between two parties—ذَاتُ البَيْنِ
the marring, or disturbing, of that state of union—إِفْسَادُ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ
Also: union [of companions, or friends, or lovers] — the opposite of the first meaning given in this paragraph.
[The first line is likewise the opposite of a meaning assigned to the same phrase above.] The second occurs in the S and K in the article on ابر, and often elsewhere.
such a one worked to improve the state of union among his kinsfolk—سَعَى فُلَانٌ لِإِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ مِنْ عَشِيرَتِهِ
[In the last instance the meaning given in the second paragraph of this entry seems more fitting.]
2.1the empty space between their houses, or tents—ذَاتُ بَيْنِهِمْ
The word for that space is سَاحَة.
3[between the two men]—بَيْنَ الرَّجُلَيْنِ
بَيْن is also an adverbial noun [and as such is written بَيْنَ], and can be used as a noun on its own.
It relates only to what has space, such as a country, or to what has some number, either two or more, such as two men, or a company of men; and it denotes [intervention in] the interval between two things, or the middle of two things, (Er-Rāghib) or the middle of a collective number. [So it means between, and amidst, and among.]
Its meaning is vague, and is not apparent unless it is prefixed to two or more words, or to a word standing for two or more, or to what takes the place of such a complement. It must be prefixed, and may not be used otherwise than in the ways just explained.
[That is,] it may not be prefixed to any noun except one denoting more than one, or to a noun that has another joined to it by و and by no other conjunction, according to the usage commonly followed.
[the property is between the company of men]—المَالُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ
[the property is between Zeyd and 'Amr]—المَالُ بَيْنَ زَيْدٍ وَعَمْرٍو
[he, or it, is between me and him]—هُوَ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ
I sat in the middle of the company of men—جَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ
[see, between the two of you, the camel; so take him]—بَيْنَكُمَا البَعِيرَ فَخُذَاهُ
In the sixth line البعير is in the accusative; a saying heard by Ks.
[the state subsisting among them became bad, or disturbed]—فَسَدَ مَا بَيْنَهُمْ
The seventh line is from the S and K, in the article on ميط.
[in, or during, the space of several days]—بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ
The eighth is from the M and K, in the article on ندر; one says also فِيمَا بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ.
[of middle age, between what has been mentioned]—عَوَانٌ بَيْنَ ذٰلِكَ
The ninth is Qur'an 2:63, an example of the word being prefixed to a single word standing for more than one; namely, the فَارِض and the بِكْر.
Some allow that two words, to the first of which بَيْنَ is prefixed, may be joined by فَ, citing as evidence the phrase used by Imra-el-Keys, بَيْنَ الدَّخُولِ فَحَوْمَلِ [as though meaning Between Ed-Dakhool and Howmal]. To this it has been replied that الدخول is a name applying to several places, so that the phrase means amidst Ed-Dakhool and the rest, and is like the saying المَالُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [mentioned above, or جَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ, also mentioned above].
[in the midst of them]—بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ
With the tenth line compare بَيْنَ ظَهْرَيْهِمْ, of the same meaning.
[before him, literally between his hands]—بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ
And بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِمْ: before them.
بَيْن is also often used absolutely as a noun; the next two lines are Qur'an 86:7 and 36:8.
coming forth from between the spine and the breast-bones—يَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ
and we have placed before them a barrier—وَجَعَلْنَا مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْديهِمْ سَدًّا
[truly your union has been severed]—لَقَدْ تَقَطَّعَ بَيْنُكُمْ
[truly what was between you has been severed]—بَيْنَكُمْ
The last two are two readings of Qur'an 6:94. The second means: that which was between you; that is, مَا بَيْنَكُمْ, or ٱلَّذِى كَانَ بَيْنَكُمْ; or the state you were in as partners; or the state of circumstances, or the bond, or the love, or affection, [formerly subsisting] among you, or between you.
According to Akh, بَيْنَكُمْ, though in the accusative in form, stands in the place of a nominative because of the verb, and keeps its adverbial ending only because the word is commonly used as an adverbial noun. AHát disapproved of this second reading, but wrongly, because what is suppressed on this reading is implied by what comes before it in the same verse.
Qur’ān 86:7 matched to Lane’s own quotation of it Lane cites “Kur lxxxvi. 7”
Qur’ān 86:7 Lane quotes this verse
يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِProceeding from between the backbone and the ribs:Abdullah Yusuf Ali, The Holy Qur’ān (1934)
3.1[they are partly beating with sticks and partly pelting with stones]—هُمْ بَيْنَ حَاذِفٍ وَقَاذِفٍ
[It is often used as a partitive, or distributive, as is also مَا بَيْنَ.]
The line is from the S and TA, in the article on قذف; or it is given as هُمْ مَا بَيْنَ حَاذفٍ وقاذفٍ.
That is, some of them beating with a staff or stick and the others pelting with stones.
[See also an example in a verse cited under خَيْطَةٌ.]
3.2this is between good and bad—هٰذَا بَيْنَ بَيْنَ
'Obeyd Ibn-El-Abras says: [You defend what we ought to defend, or our banner, while some of the people, or company of men,] fall one after another in a state of weakness, counted as nothing. Or it is as though he said, between these and these — like a man who comes in between two parties in some affair, and slips, or makes a mistake, and is not honourably mentioned for it: so says Seer. Or: between entering the fight and holding back from it, as when one says, Such a one puts one foot forward and the other back.
shāhidتَحْمِى حَقِيقَتَنَا وَبَعْ ضُ القَوْمِ يَسْقُطُ بَيْنَ بَيْنَا
The first is said of a thing, or of a commodity; or it means of a middling sort. The two words are made into one and are indeclinable, ending in fet-h, like خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ.
the hemzeh uttered lightly—الهَمْزَةُ المُخَفَّفَةُ
It never comes at the beginning of a word, because its feebleness brings it close to a sākin letter, though for all that it is really movent. It is so named because it is weak, having neither the full sound of the hemzeh nor the clearness of the letter from which its vowel comes.
The second is called هَمْزَةٌ بَيْنَ بَيْنَ, a hemzeh that is between the hemzeh and the soft letter from which its vowel comes; or هَمْزَةُ بَيْنِ بَيْنٍ, the first بين with kesreh but without tenween and the second with tenween.
If it has fet-h, it is between the hemzeh and the alif, as in سَاَلَ for سَأَلَ; if kesr, between the hemzeh and the yé, as in سَيِمَ for سَئِمَ; if damm, between the hemzeh and the wáw, as in لَوُمَ for لَؤُمَ.
3.3[while we were in such a state, suddenly such a thing happened]—بَيْنَا نَحْنُ كَذٰلِكَ إِذْ حَدَثَ كَذَا
بَيْنَا and بَيْنَمَا are among the inceptive حُرُوف; this is clear if by حروف is meant words. That they have become particles, no one says: they are still adverbial nouns.
The first is بَيْنَ with its final fet-hah made full in sound, which is where the ا comes from; that is, it is of the measure فَعْلَى [or فَعْلَا] from البَيْن, the final fet-hah being made full in sound and so becoming ا. The second is بَيْنَ with مَا [restrictive of its government] added to it. Both have the same meaning [while, or whilst]. (Mughnee, in the section next after that of وا, and K.)
Or the ا in the first is the restrictive ا; or, as some say, it is part of the restrictive ما [of the second].
These do not take بَيْنَ out of the class of nouns; they only cut it off from being prefixed to another noun. They are substitutes for that to which بَيْنَ would otherwise be prefixed.
[while we were thus]—بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ كَذَا
Some say the two words are adverbial nouns of time denoting that a thing happened suddenly, or unexpectedly. They are prefixed to a clause consisting of a verb and its agent, or of a mubtadaʾ and a khabar, and so require a complement to complete the meaning.
And: [while we were looking, or waiting, for him, he came to us]; a line of a poet cited by Sb. The phrase is elliptical, meaning بَيْنَ أَوْقَاتِ نَحْنُ نَرْقُبُهُ, that is, بَيْنَ أَوْقَاتِ رِقْبَتِنَا إِيَّاهُ [between the times of our looking, or waiting, for him].
shāhid 1بَيْنَا نَحْنُ نَرْقُبُهُ أَتَانَا
As used to put a noun following بَيْنَا in the genitive where بَيْنَ might properly take its place, as in the line of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, which he recited with kesr: [Amid his embracing the courageous armed men, and his guileful eluding, one day a bold, daring man was appointed for him, to slay him.]
shāhid 2بَيْنَا تَعَنُّقِهِ الكُمَاةَ وَرَوْغِهِيَوْمًا أُتِيحَ لَهُ جَرِىْءٌ سَلْفَعُ
In [some copies of] the K the word is تَعَنُّفِهِ, but in the Deewán [of the Hudhalees] تعنّقه, [and in the Mughnee تَعَانُقِهِ]. The meaning is بَيْنَ تَعَانُقِهِ, the ا being added to fill out the sound of the final vowel. As used to say that the ا here is redundant. (Skr.)
Others put the nouns following both بَيْنَا and بَيْنَمَا in the nominative, as mubtadaʾ and khabar. (Skr.)
Mbr says that when the noun following بينا is a real substantive, it is put in the nominative as a mubtadaʾ; but when it is a maṣdar, or a noun of that kind, it is put in the genitive, and بينا then has the meaning of بَيْنَ. Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà says much the same, though some speakers of chaste Arabic treat the second kind of noun like the first. After بينما, however, each kind of noun must be in the nominative.
[See an example in a verse cited towards the end of the article on اذ.]
Qur’ānic occurrences بَيْن 5 shown of 217
20:62
فَتَنَـٰزَعُوٓا۟ أَمْرَهُم بَيْنَهُمْ وَأَسَرُّوا۟ ٱلنَّجْوَىٰSo they disputed, one with another, over their affair, but they kept their talk secret.
20:103
يَتَخَـٰفَتُونَ بَيْنَهُمْ إِن لَّبِثْتُمْ إِلَّا عَشْرًاIn whispers will they consult each other: "Yet tarried not longer than ten (Days);
55:20
بَيْنَهُمَا بَرْزَخٌ لَّا يَبْغِيَانِBetween them is a Barrier which they do not transgress:
55:44
يَطُوفُونَ بَيْنَهَا وَبَيْنَ حَمِيمٍ ءَانٍIn its midst and in the midst of boiling hot water will they wander round!
86:7
يَخْرُجُ مِنۢ بَيْنِ ٱلصُّلْبِ وَٱلتَّرَآئِبِProceeding from between the backbone and the ribs:
Occurrences of this form in the Qur’ān, not Lane’s choice of verse. They show the word in use; they do not say which sense above applies. Where more occur than are shown, the shortest āyāt are chosen.
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has two contr. significations; (T, S, Msb;) one of which is Separation, or disunion [of companions or friends or lovers]. (T, S, M, Msb, K.) Hence, ذَاتُ البَيْنِ as meaning Enmity, and vehement hatred: and the saying لِإِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ , i. e. For the reforming, or amending, of the bad, or corrupt, state subsisting between the people, or company of men; meaning for the allaying of the discord, enmity, rancour, or vehement hatred: (Msb:) [but this has also the contr. meaning, as will be seen below: and it is explained as having a vague import; for it is said that] فِى إِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ means In the reforming, or amending, of the circumstances subsisting between the persons to whom it relates, by frequent attention thereto. (Mgh.) [Hence also,] غُرَابُ البَيْنِ [The raven of separation or disunion; i. e., whose appearance, or croak, is ominous of separation: said by some to be] the غراب termed أَبْقَعُ [i. e. in which is blackness and whiteness; or having whiteness in the breast]; (S, K;) so described by the poet 'Antarah: (S:) or that which is red in the beak and legs; but the black is called الحَاتِمُ , because it makes [or shows] separation to be absolutely unavoidable, (Abu-1-Ghowth, S, K,) according to the assertion of the Arabs, i. e., by its croak: (Msb in art. حتم :) [or it is any species of the corvus:] Hamzeh says, in his Proverbs, that this name attaches to the غراب because, when the people of an abode go away to seek after herbage, it alights in the place of their tents, searching the sweepings: (Har p. 308:) but accord. to the Kádee of Granada, Aboo-'Abd-Allah Esh-Shereef, this appellation, so often occurring in poetry, properly signifies camels that transport people from one district, or country, to another; and he cites the following verses: 1 [Those have erred whom I have seen, with ignorance, all of them blaming a raven croaking: the fault is not imputable save to the camels; for they are of the things that scatter and disperse their congregation: verily the place that is the object of a journey is brought near by the raven's lucky omen; but the she-camels discompose the united state]: and Ibn-'Abd-Rabbih says, 2 [The raven cried; and I said, A most lying bird, if the grumbling cry of a camel on the occasion of his being laden do not verify it]. (TA in art. غرب .) غَلِطَ الَّذِينَ رَأَيْتُهُمْ بِجَهَالَةٍ | يَلْحَوْنَ كُلُّهُمُ غُرَابًا يَنْعَقُ | مَا الذَّنْبُ إِلَّا لِلْأَبَاعِرِ إِنَّهَا | مِمَّا يُشَتِّتُ جَمْعَهُمْ وَيُقَرِّقُ | إِنَّ الغُرَابَ بِيُمْنِهِ تُدْنُو النَّوَى | وَتُشَتِّتُ الشَّمْلَ الجَمِيعَ الأَيْنُقُ زَعَقَ الغُرَابُ فَقُلْتُ أَكْذَبُ طَائِرٍ | إِن لَّمْ يُصَدِّقْهُ رُغَآءُ بَعِيرِ Also Distance, (S, M, Msb, K,) by the space, or interval, between two things. (Msb.) You say, بَيْنَ البَلَدَيْنِ بَيْنٌ Between the two countries, or towns, &c., is a distance, of space, or interval: (Msb:) and بَيْنَهُمَا بَيْنٌ Between them two is a distance, with ى when corporeal distance is meant: (Idem in art. بون :) or إِنَّ بَيْنَهُمَا لَبَيْنٌ [Verily between them two is a distance], not otherwise, in the case of [literal] distance. (S.) And you say also, بَيْنَهُمَا بَيْنٌ بَعِيدٌ (T in art. بون , S, M *) and بَوْنٌ بَعِيدٌ (T in art. بون , S, M, * Msb * in art. بون ) Between them two [meaning two men] is a [wide] distance; (M;) i. e. between their two degrees of rank or dignity, or between the estimations in which they are commonly held: (Msb in art. بون :) in this case, the latter is the more chaste. (S.) You also say, [using بين to denote An interval of time,] لَقِيتُهُ بُعَيْدَاتِ بَيْنٍ [I met him after, or a little after, an interval, or intervals,] when you have met him after a while, and then withheld yourself from him, and then come to him. (S, M, K. See also بَعْدُ .]) Also Union [of companions or friends or lovers]; (T, S, M, Msb, K;) the contr. of the first of the significations mentioned above in this paragraph. (T, S, Msb.) [Hence ذَاتُ البَيْنِ as meaning The state of union or concord or friendship or love subsisting between a people or between two parties; this being likewise the contr. of a signification assigned to the same expression above: whence the phrase, إِفْسَادُ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ (occurring in the S and K in art. ابر , and often elsewhere,) The marring, or disturbance, of the state of union or concord &c.: and] hence the saying, سَعَى فُلَانٌ لِإِصْلَاحِ ذَاتِ البَيْنِ مِنْ عَشِيرَتِهِ [Such a one laboured for the improving of the state of union or concord &c. of his kinsfolk; but in this instance, the meaning given in the second sentence of this paragraph seems to be more appropriate]. (Ham p. 569.) ذَاتُ بَيْنِهِمْ may also be used as meaning The vacant space ( سَاحَة ) that is between their houses, or tents. (Ham p. 195.) بَيْن is also an adverbial noun, [as such written بَيْنَ ,] (S, M, Mgh, Msb, K,) capable of being used as a noun absolutely: (M, K:) it relates only to that which has space, as a country; or to that which has some number, either two or more, as two men, and a company of men; and denotes [intervention in] the interval between two things, or the middle, or midst, of two things, (Er-Rághib, TA,) or the middle of a collective number: (S:) [thus it signifies Between, and amidst, and among:] its meaning is [therefore] vague, not apparent unless it is prefixed to two or more [words, or to a word signifying two or more], or to what supplies the place of such a complement: (Msb:) it must necessarily be prefixed, and may not be otherwise than in the manners just explained: (Mgh:) [i. e.] it may not be prefixed to any noun but such as denotes more than one, or to a noun that has another conjoined to it by و , (M,) not by any other conjunction, (M, Msb,) acc0ord. to the usage commonly obtaining. (Msb.) You say بَيْنَ الرَّجُلَيْنِ [Between the two men]: (Er-Rághib, TA:) and المَالُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [The property is between the company of men]: (M, Msb, Er-Rághib: *) and المَالُ بَيْنَ زَيْدٍ وَعَمْرٍو [The property is between Zeyd and 'Amr]: and هُوَ بَيْنِى وَبَيْنَهُ [He, or it, is between me and him]: (M:) and جَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ I sat in the middle of [or amidst or among] the company of men: (S, K:) and بَيْنَكُمَا البَعِيرَ فَخُذَاهُ , with البعير in the accus. case, [See between you two the camel, therefore take him], a saying heard by Ks: (Lin art. عند :) and فَسَدَ مَا بَيْنَهُمْ [The state subsisting among them became bad, or marred, or disturbed]: (S and K in art. ميط :) and بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ (M and K in art. ندر ) and فِيمَا بَيْنَ الأَيَّامِ (S and Msb in that art.) [In, or during, the space of (several) days]: and عَوَانٌ بَيْنَ ذٰلِكَ , in the Kur [ii. 63], is an ex. of its being prefixed to a single word supplying the place of more than one; (Mgh, Msb;) the meaning being, Of middle age, between that which has been mentioned; namely, the فَارِض and the بِكْر . (Bd.) Some allow that two words to the former of which بَيْنَ is prefixed may be connected by فَ , citing as an evidence the phrase used by Imra-el-Keys, بَيْنَ الدَّخُولِ فَحَوْمَلِ [as though meaning Between Ed-Dakhool and Howmal]: but to this it has been replied that الدخول is a name applying to several places; so that the phrase [means amidst Ed-Dakhool &c., and] is similar to the saying, المَالُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ [mentioned above, or جَلَسْتُ بَيْنَ القَوْمِ , also mentioned above]. (Msb.) [You say also, بَيْنَ أَظْهُرِهِمْ , and بَيْنَ ظَهْرَيْهِمْ &c., meaning In the midst of them. (See art. ظهر .) And بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ , and بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِمْ , meaning Before him, and before them. بَيْن is also often used absolutely as a noun: thus it is in the Kur lxxxvi. 7, يَخْرُجُ مِنْ بَيْنِ الصُّلْبِ وَالتَّرَائِبِ Coming forth from between, or amidst, the spine and the breast-bones: and in xxxvi. 8 of the same, وَجَعَلْنَا مِنْ بَيْنِ أَيْديهِمْ سَدًّا And we have placed before them (lit. between their hands) a barrier.] It is said in the Kur [vi. 94], لَقَدْ تَقَطَّعَ بَيْنُكُمْ , as some read; or بَيْنَكُمْ , as others: (T, S, M:) the former means Verily your union hath become dissevered: (AA, T, S, M:) the latter, that which was between you; ( مَا بَيْنَكُمْ , Ibn-Mes'ood, T, S, or ٱلَّذِى كَانَ بَيْنَكُمْ , IAar, T;) or the state wherein ye were, in respect of partnership among you: (Zj, T:) or the state of circumstances, or the bond, or the love, or affection, [formerly subsisting] among you, or between you; or, accord. to Akh, بَيْنَكُمْ , though in the accus. case as to the letter, is in the nom. case as to the place, by reason of the verb, and the adverbial termination is retained only because the word is commonly used as an adv. n.: (M:) AHát disapproved of the latter reading; but wrongly, because what is suppressed accord. to this reading is implied by what precedes in the same verse. (T.) [It is often used as a partitive, or distributive; as also مَا بَيْنَ : for ex.,] you say, هُمْ بَيْنَ حَاذِفٍ وَقَاذِفٍ , (S and TA in art. قذف ,) or هُمْ مَا بَيْنَ حَاذفٍ وقاذفٍ , (TA in art. حذف ,) i. e. [They are partly, or in part,] beating with the staff, or stick, and [partly, or in part,] pelting with stones; [or some beating &c., and the others pelting &c.] (S and TA, both in art. قذف , and the latter in art. حذف .) [See also an ex. in a verse cited voce خَيْطَةٌ .] هٰذَا بَيْنَ بَيْنَ means This (namely, a thing, S, or a commodity, Msb) is between good and bad: (S, Msb, K:) or of a middling, or middle, sort: (M:) these two words being two nouns made one, and indecl., with fet-h for their terminations, (S, Msb, K,) like خَمْسَةَ عَشَرَ . (Msb.) الهَمْزَةُ المُخَفَّفَةُ [i. e. the hemzeh uttered lightly] is called هَمْزَةٌ بَيْنَ بَيْنَ , (S, M, K, *) i. e. A hemzeh that is between the hemzeh and the soft letter whence is its vowel; (S, M;) or هَمْزَةُ بَيْنِ بَيْنٍ , the first بين with kesreh but without tenween, and the second with tenween, (Sharh Shudhoor edh-Dhahab,) [i. e. the hemzeh &c.:] if it is with fet-h, it is between the hemzeh and the alif, as in سَاَلَ , (S, M,) for سَأَلَ ; (M;) if with kesr, it is between the hemzeh and the yé, as in سَيِمَ , (S, M,) for سَئِمَ ; (M;) and if with damm, it is between the hemzeh and the wáw, as in لَوُمَ , (S, M,) for لَؤُمَ : (M:) it is never at the beginning of a word, because of its nearness, by reason of feebleness, to the letter that is quiescent, (S, M,) though, notwithstanding this, it is really movent: (S:) it is thus called because it is weak, (Sb, S, M,) not having the power of the hemzeh uttered with its proper sound, nor the clearness of the letter whence is its vowel. (M.) 'Obeyd Ibn-El-Abras says, 1 i. e. [Thou defendest what we ought to defend, or our banner, or standard, while some of the people, or company of men,] fall, one after another, in a state of weakness, not regarded as of any account: (S:) or it is as though he said, between these and these; like a man who enters between two parties in some affair, and falls, or slips, or commits a mistake, and is not honourably mentioned in relation to it: so says Seer: (IB, TA:) or between entering into fight and holding back from it; as when one says, Such a one puts forward a foot, and puts back another. (TA.) تَحْمِى حَقِيقَتَنَا وَبَعْ ضُ القَوْمِ يَسْقُطُ بَيْنَ بَيْنَا بَيْنَا and بَيْنَمَا are of the number of inceptive حُرُوف : (M, K:) this is clear if by حروف is meant "words:" that they have become particles, no one says: they are still adv. ns.: (MF, TA:) the former is بَيْنَ with its [final] fet-hah rendered full in sound; and hence the ا ; (Mughnee in the section next after that of وا , and K;) [i. e.,] it is of the measure فَعْلَى [or فَعْلَا ] from البَيْن , the [final] fet-hah being rendered full in sound, and so becoming ا ; and the latter is بَيْنَ with مَا [restrictive of its government] added to it; and both have the same meaning [of While, or whilst]: (S:) or the ا in the former is the restrictive ا ; or, as some say, it is a portion of the restrictive ما [in the latter]: (Mughnee ubi suprà:) and these do not exclude بَيْنَ from the category of nouns, but only cut it off from being prefixed to another noun: (MF, TA:) they are substitutes for that to which بَيْنَ would otherwise be prefixed: (Mgh:) some say that these two words are adv. ns. of time, denoting a thing's happening suddenly, or unexpectedly; and they are prefixed to a proposition consisting of a verb and an agent, or an inchoative and enunciative; so that they require a complement to complete the meaning. (TA.) One says, بَيْنَا نَحْنُ كَذٰلِكَ إِذْ حَدَثَ كَذَا [While we were in such a state as that, lo, or there, or then, such a thing happened, or came to pass]: (M, Mgh, * K: *) and بَيْنَمَا نَحْنُ كَذَا [While we were thus]: (Mgh:) and 1 [While we were looking, or waiting, for him, he came to us]; (S, M;) a saying of a poet, cited by Sb; (M;) the phrase being elliptical; (S, M;) meaning بَيْنَ أَوْقَاتِ نَحْنُ نَرْقُبُهُ , (M,) i. e., بَيْنَ أَوْقَاتِ رِقْبَتِنَا إِيَّاهُ [between the times of our looking, or waiting, for him]. (S, M.) As used to put nouns following بَيْنَا in the gen. case when بَيْنَ might properly supply its place; as in the saying (of Aboo-Dhu-eyb, which he thus recited, with kesr, S), 2 [Amid his embracing the courageous armed men, and his guileful eluding, one day a bold, daring man was appointed for him, to slay him]: (S, K:) in [some copies of] the K, تَعَنُّفِهِ ; but in the Deewán [of the Hudhalees], تعنّقه : [in the Mughnee, ubi suprà, تَعَانُقِهِ :] the meaning is بَيْنَ تَعَانُقِهِ ; the ا being added to give fulness to the sound of the [final] vowel: (TA:) As used to say that the ا is here redundant: (Skr, TA:) others put the nouns following both بَيْنَا and بَيْنَمَا in the nom. case, as the inchoative and enunciative. (Skr, S, K.) Mbr says that when the noun following بينا is a real subst., it is put in the nom. case as an inchoative; but when it is an inf. n., or a noun of the inf. kind, it is put in the gen., and بينا in this instance has the meaning of بَيْنَ : and Ahmad Ibn-Yahyà says the like, but some persons of chaste speech treat the latter kind of noun like the former: after بينما , however, each kind of noun must be in the nom. case. (AA, T.) [See an ex. in a verse cited towards the end of art. اذ .] بَيْنَا نَحْنُ نَرْقُبُهُ أَتَانَا بَيْنَا تَعَنُّقِهِ الكُمَاةَ وَرَوْغِهِ | يَوْمًا أُتِيحَ لَهُ جَرِىْءٌ سَلْفَعُ