בָּדַד
to separate
‘to separate’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H909 appears in the Book of Isaiah — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Isaiah
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
בדד (bâdad) is a Hebrew verb most often rendered “to separate.” It occurs a mere 4 verses across Scripture. Leviticus dominates its distribution — 1 of 4 verses. Debuting at Leviticus 13:46, it then recurs through the corpus. Its lexical range runs to 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H909 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 50%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 25%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Alone 2×
- American Standard Version: Alone 1×, Is alone 1×, Is no straggler 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Like a lone 1×, Own 1×, Stragglers 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Alone 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H909 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H909 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H909 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H909 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- to withdraw, be separate, be isolated
- (TWOT) alone
Word origin
vb. be separate, isolated (Arabic بَدَّ cause to withdraw; ii. separate, disunite, Gn 11:8 Saad.; iv. divide into parts; x. go alone, act independently), only Pt. בּוֹדֵד Is 14:31 (of straggler in army), Ho 8:9 פֶּרֶא בוֹדֵד לוֹ a wild-ass (sim. of Ephr.) going alone for itself (i.e. wilfully: v. sub לְ), ψ 102:8 (of bird sitting solitarily).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
בָּדַד
- 1. to scatter. Y. Yoma V, 42ᶜ top בּוֹדְדָהּ ברגלו he scatters it (the frank-incense) with his foot (shoves it apart).
- 2. to dig out, create, choose, invent. Denom. בַּד II, בַּדִּים.
- 3. to be lonely. Part. בּוֹדֵד lonely. Pesik. R. s. 29 (30), expl. בדד (Lam. I, 1) = בּוֹדֵד lonely, forsaken. Part. pass. בָּדוּד exiled. Lam. R. to I, 1 בגדים בדודים Ar. (read בגדי) garments of the exiled (כלי גולה, Jer. XLVI, 19); [ed. בגדי בָדָד, a. בְּדָדִין, v. next w.]. e.g. Lamentations 1:1
- to be exiled, homeless. Lam. R. introd. (R. Alexandri 1) (ref. to Ps. CII, 8) as the bird מִתְבּוֹדֵד וכ׳ is driven (separated from the rest) from roof to roof. e.g. Psalms 102:8
בָּדָד
- preced.) loneliness, (adv.) in a lonely state, in exile. Snh. 104ᵃ יהיה ב׳ מושבם the exile shall be their dwelling. Lam. R. to I, 1 בגדי ב׳ garments (outfit) of exile, v. preced.—Pl. בְּדָדִים, בְּדָדִין. Ib. בגדי ב׳ (plur. abstr. as חיים &c.).
בַּדָּד
- (denom. of בַּד II) olive-treader, workingman in the olive press. Gitt. 62ᵃ.—Pl. בַּדָּדִין. Toh. X, 1 sq. Sabb. 19ᵇ שמן של ב׳ וכ׳ the oil (remnants in corners) belonging to the pressers, and the mats which they use. B. Kam. 119ᵃ והב׳ לוקחין מהן וכ׳ (read מנשותיהן, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 40) you may buy from the oil pressers’ (Rashi: oil producers’) wives &c. Tosef. Maasr. I, 10 הב׳ (ה)מדליקין וכ׳ the oil pressers who take their lighting oil (alternately) from one press and another.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H909 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| בָּדָ֣ד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 13:46 | 1 |
| בּוֹדֵ֖ד | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 14:31 | 1 |
| בּוֹדֵ֣ד | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Hosea 8:9 | 1 |
| בּוֹדֵ֥ד | Verb, Qal, Participle Active, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Psalms 102:7 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H909, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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