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# בָּדַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H909

**be separate** — used 3 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

be separate [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/909/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּדַד: vb. be separate, isolated [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/909/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** 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).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: isolated (2); an isolated \[one\] (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 102:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.102.8/#tree)

שָׁקַ֥דְתִּי וָאֶֽהְיֶ֑ה כְּ֝צִפּ֗וֹר בּוֹדֵ֥ד עַל־גָּֽג׃

*Word for word:* I.am.wakeful and I.have.become like a.bird isolated on a.roof

*JPS 1917:* I watch, and am become like a sparrow that is alone upon the housetop.

[Hosea 8:9](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.9/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.8.9/#tree)

כִּֽי־הֵ֙מָּה֙ עָל֣וּ אַשּׁ֔וּר פֶּ֖רֶא בּוֹדֵ֣ד ל֑וֹ אֶפְרַ֖יִם הִתְנ֥וּ אֲהָבִֽים

*Word for word:* (dm) they they.have.gone.up Assyria a.wild.donkey isolated to itself Ephraim they.have.hired loves

*JPS 1917:* For they are gone up to Assyria, like a wild ass alone by himself; Ephraim hath hired lovers.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/909.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/909/): 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).