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# בַּד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H907

**brag** — used 4 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

brag [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/907/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

בַּד⁴: n.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/907/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. only Pl. בַּדִּים. empty, idle talk (Ph. CIS 3, 6 listen not to בדנם = Heb. בַּדֵּיהֶם; cf. ܒܶܕܝܳܐ vain talk), especially with collat. idea of imaginary pretensions or claims: Jb 11:3 בַּדֶּיךָ מְתִים יַחֲרִישׁוּ thy idle talk brings men to silence (‖ וַתִּלְעַג), Is 16:6 (of Moab) לֹא כֵן בַּדָּיו his boastings are not right (unfounded), hence Je 48:30. concr. empty talkers, praters (cf. NH בַּדָּאָה, Syriac ܒܳܕܽܘܝܳܐ liar), of false prophets, Is 44:25; Je 50:36.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (5 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: boasts (3); limbs (1).

## In the verses

[Job 11:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.11.3/#tree)

בַּ֭דֶּיךָ מְתִ֣ים יַחֲרִ֑ישׁווַ֝תִּלְעַ֗ג וְאֵ֣ין מַכְלִֽם׃

*Word for word:* boasts your.empty men will.they.silence? and have.you.mocked? and there.\[is\].not \[one.who\].puts.to.shame

*JPS 1917:* Thy boastings have made men hold their peace, and thou hast mocked, with none to make thee ashamed;

[Job 41:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.41.4/#tree)

לֽוֹ־אַחֲרִ֥ישׁ בַּדָּ֑יו וּדְבַר־גְּ֝בוּר֗וֹת וְחִ֣ין עֶרְכּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* to it I.will.keep.silent limbs its and.\[the\] matter of.strength(s) and the.grace its.arrangement his

*JPS 1917:* Would I keep silence concerning his boastings, or his proud talk, or his fair array of words?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/907.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1489/907/): 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).