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# בָּדַק

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H918

**mend** — 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

mend [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/918/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בָּדַק: vb. denom. mend, repair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/918/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. denom. mend, repair, only Inf. cstr. לִבְדוֹק וּלְחַזֵּק הַבָּ֑יִת 2 Ch 34:10.

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 (2 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[2 Chronicles 34:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/2CH.34.10/#tree)

וַֽיִּתְּנ֗וּ עַל־יַד֙ עֹשֵׂ֣ה הַמְּלָאכָ֔ה הַמֻּפְקָדִ֖ים בְּבֵ֣ית יְהוָ֑ה וַיִּתְּנ֨וּ אֹת֜וֹ עוֹשֵׂ֣י הַמְּלָאכָ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֤ר עֹשִׂים֙ בְּבֵ֣ית יְהוָ֔ה לִבְדּ֥וֹק וּלְחַזֵּ֖ק הַבָּֽיִת׃

*Word for word:* and they.gave.\[it\] on the.hand of.the.doer\[s\] of the.work \[who had.been\].appointed in the.house of.Yahweh and they.gave it the.doers of the.work who \[were\].working in the.house of.Yahweh to mend and to repair the house

*JPS 1917:* And they delivered it into the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD; and the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD gave it to mend and repair the house;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/918.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/918/): 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).