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בָּגַד

to betray

‘to betray’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

H898 Strong's Hebrew
bâgad Transliteration
/baw-gad'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 49 appearances

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Grammar key — what these labels mean

Part of speech

Verb
An action or state-of-being word.

Stem

Qal
The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘with’

Form

Perfect
A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Participle Active
A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
Sequential Imperfect
An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
Infinitive Absolute
An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
Infinitive Construct
A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
Imperfect
An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Jussive
A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).

State

Absolute
The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Construct
A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).

Person

3rd Person
The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
2nd Person
The one addressed (“you”).
1st Person
The speaker (“I / we”).

Gender

Common
Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Masculine
Grammatically masculine.
Feminine
Grammatically feminine.

Number

Plural
More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Singular
One.

Grammatical forms 17 distinct

  • Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 12 times (24%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 9 times (18%)
  • Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 7 times (14%)
  • Verb, Qal, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 2 times (4%)
  • Verb, Qal, Infinitive Absolute 2 times (4%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 2 times (4%)
  • Verb, Qal, Perfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular 2 times (4%)
  • Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Plural, Construct 2 times (4%)

+9 more forms (11 occurrences)

Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 49 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.

Every verse where H898 appears — 39 distinct verses across 12 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.

Exodus 1 verse

Judges 1 verse

1 Samuel 1 verse

Job 1 verse

Psalms 5 verses

Proverbs 9 verses

Isaiah 4 verses

Jeremiah 7 verses

Lamentations 1 verse

Hosea 2 verses

Habakkuk 2 verses

Malachi 5 verses

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