בָּדָאbâdâʼ

devise, invent

Pronunciation: baw-daw' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H908

Meanings

Qal: suffix, devised (1 Kings 12:33; Nehemiah 6:8)

Same root

בַּדbad · H907a brag or lie; also a liar

Where it appears

Appears 2 times in the Bible.

1 Kings 12:33 So on the fifteenth day of the eighth month, a day that he himself had designated, Jeroboam offered sacrifices on the altar at Bethel. He instituted a religious festival for Israel, and he went up to the altar to burn incense.
Nehemiah 6:8 I replied, “There is no truth in any part of your story. You are making up the whole thing.”

Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).