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# בַּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H906

**white linen** — used 23 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

white linen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/906/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּד: white linen [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/906/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] white linen (deriv. unknown) pl. בַּדִּים—אֵפוֹד בָּ֑ד 1 S 2:18 (Samuel), 1 S 22:18 (priests of Nob), 2 S 6:14 = 1 Ch 15:27 (David): in P as material of diff. priestly vestments Ex 28:42; 39:28 Lv 6:3(×2) 16:4(×4), 23, 32. Pl. (ה)לבושׁ (הַ)בַּדִּים clad in (the) linen garments, of angel Ez 9:2, 3, 11; 10:2, 6, 7; Dn 10:5; 12:6, 7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 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: of linen (10); linen(s) (5); linen (4).

## In the verses

[1 Samuel 2:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1SA.2.18/#tree)

וּשְׁמוּאֵ֕ל מְשָׁרֵ֖ת אֶת־פְּנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה נַ֕עַר חָג֖וּר אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* and Samuel \[was\].serving (et) the.presence of.Yahweh a.lad girded an.ephod of.linen

*JPS 1917:* But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.

[2 Samuel 6:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/2SA.6.14/#tree)

וְדָוִ֛ד מְכַרְכֵּ֥ר בְּכָל־עֹ֖ז לִפְנֵ֣י יְהוָ֑ה וְדָוִ֕ד חָג֖וּר אֵפ֥וֹד בָּֽד׃

*Word for word:* and David \[was\].dancing with all strength before Yahweh and David \[was\].girded an.ephod of.linen

*JPS 1917:* And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/906.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/906/): 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).