BESI'DES, prep. Over and above separate or distinct from.
And there was a famine in the land, besides the first famine. Genesis 26
Note. This word, though radically the same as beside, and a corruption of it, ought not to be confounded with it, for it is never used in the senses explained under beside, except in the second.
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