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# בָּדָל

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H915

**piece** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

piece [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/915/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּדָל: piece, severed piece [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/915/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] piece, severed piece, cstr. בְּדַל־אֹזֶן Am 3:12.

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

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a piece (1).

## In the verses

[Amos 3:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.3.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/AMO.3.12/#tree)

כֹּה֮ אָמַ֣ר יְהוָה֒ כַּאֲשֶׁר֩ יַצִּ֨יל הָרֹעֶ֜ה מִפִּ֧י הָאֲרִ֛י שְׁתֵּ֥י כְרָעַ֖יִם א֣וֹ בְדַל־אֹ֑זֶן כֵּ֣ן יִנָּצְל֞וּ בְּנֵ֣י יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הַיֹּֽשְׁבִים֙ בְּשֹׁ֣מְר֔וֹן בִּפְאַ֥ת מִטָּ֖ה וּבִדְמֶ֥שֶׁק עָֽרֶשׂ׃

*Word for word:* thus he.says Yahweh just as he.delivers the shepherd from the.mouth of.(the) lion two legs or a.piece of.an.ear so they.will.be.delivered the.people of.Israel \[who\] dwell in Samaria with a.corner of.a.bed and with silk of.a.couch

*JPS 1917:* Thus saith the LORD: As the shepherd rescueth out of the mouth of the lion two legs, or a piece of an ear, so shall the children of Israel that dwell in Samaria escape with the corner of a couch, and the leg of a bed.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/915.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/915/): 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).