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# בָּדָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H908

**devise** — used 2 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

devise [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/908/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּדָא: vb. devise, invent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/908/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. devise, invent (bad sense) (Mish. id., Aramaic בְּדָא, ܒܕܳܐ invent; cf. Arabic بَدَأَ begin, make a beginning)— Pf. בָּדָא 1 K 12:33; Pt. sf. בּוֹדָאם (instead of בּוֹדְאָם) Ne 6:8—Jeroboam devised a feast in 8th month 1 K 12:33; invent accusation Ne 6:8.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[are\] inventing (1); he had devised (1).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 6:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.6.8/#tree)

וָאֶשְׁלְחָ֤ה אֵלָיו֙ לֵאמֹ֔ר לֹ֤א נִֽהְיָה֙ כַּדְּבָרִ֣ים הָאֵ֔לֶּה אֲשֶׁ֖ר אַתָּ֣ה אוֹמֵ֑ר כִּ֥י מִֽלִּבְּךָ֖ אַתָּ֥ה בוֹדָֽאם׃

*Word for word:* and I sent to him (cmp) not it.has.occurred according to the.words (the) these which you \[are\].saying (dm) from heart your you \[are\].inventing them

*JPS 1917:* Then I sent unto him, saying: 'There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.'

[1 Kings 12:33](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.33/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.12.33/#tree)

וַיַּ֜עַל עַֽל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֣חַ ׀ אֲשֶׁר־עָשָׂ֣ה בְּבֵֽית־אֵ֗לבֵֽית־אֵ֗ל בַּחֲמִשָּׁ֨ה עָשָׂ֥ר יוֹם֙ בַּחֹ֣דֶשׁ הַשְּׁמִינִ֔י בַּחֹ֖דֶשׁ אֲשֶׁר־בָּדָ֣א מִלִּבּ֑וֹ וַיַּ֤עַשׂ חָג֙ לִבְנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל וַיַּ֥עַל עַל־הַמִּזְבֵּ֖חַ לְהַקְטִֽיר׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.offered.up on the altar which he.had.made in Bethel Bethel on.\[the\] fif- teen day in the month (the) eighth in the month which he.had.devised from his.own heart and he.appointed a.festival for the.people of.Israel and he.offered.up on the altar to make.smoke

*JPS 1917:* And he went up unto the altar which he had made in Beth-el on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and he ordained a feast for the children of Israel, and went up unto the altar, to offer.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/908.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/908/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).