בָּדַלbâdal
be divided, separate
Pronunciation: baw-dal' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H914
Meanings
Hiph`il: divide, separate (Numbers 16:9; Deuteronomy 10:8; Deuteronomy 29:20)
1. divide, separate (Genesis 1:4; Genesis 1:7; Genesis 1:14)
2. separate, set apart (Leviticus 20:24; Numbers 16:9; Leviticus 20:26)
3. make a distinction (Leviticus 20:25; Leviticus 10:10; Leviticus 11:47)
4. divide into parts (Leviticus 1:17; Leviticus 5:8)
Niph`al
1. (reflexive of Hiph`il 2)
a. separate oneself (Ezra 6:21; Ezra 9:1; Ezra 10:11)
b. withdraw from (Numbers 16:21)
c. separate oneself (1 Chronicles 12:8)
d. separate oneself, combines a. & c. (Nehemiah 10:29)
2. be separated, passive
a. be excluded (Ezra 10:8)
b. be set apart (1 Chronicles 23:13)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 42 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 1:4 And God saw that the light was good. Then he separated the light from the darkness.
- Genesis 1:6 Then God said, “Let there be a space between the waters, to separate the waters of the heavens from the waters of the earth.”
- Genesis 1:7 And that is what happened. God made this space to separate the waters of the earth from the waters of the heavens.
- Genesis 1:14 Then God said, “Let lights appear in the sky to separate the day from the night. Let them be signs to mark the seasons, days, and years.
- Genesis 1:18 to govern the day and night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.
- Exodus 26:33 Hang the inner curtain from clasps, and put the Ark of the Covenant in the room behind it. This curtain will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.
See every passage
- Genesis 1:4, 1:6, 1:7, 1:14, 1:18
- Exodus 26:33
- Leviticus 1:17, 5:8, 10:10, 11:47, 20:24, 20:25, 20:26
- Numbers 8:14, 16:9, 16:21
- Deuteronomy 4:41, 10:8, 19:2, 19:7, 29:21
- 1 Kings 8:53
- 1 Chronicles 12:8, 23:13, 25:1
- 2 Chronicles 25:10
- Ezra 6:21, 8:24, 9:1, 10:8, 10:11, 10:16
- Nehemiah 9:2, 10:28, 13:3
- Isaiah 56:3, 59:2
- Ezekiel 22:26, 39:14, 42:20
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).