bad · alone, apart; pole

What it means

bad (בַּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “alone, apart; pole”.

Alone, apart; "besides". The same word (in another sense) means "pole", like the ones for carrying the ark, or a branch.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. One thing alone, set apart from the rest; also the expression 'besides'.
2. A share that goes to each one, in equal amounts.
3. Another word spelled the same: a carrying pole.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Two uses of the same form. With a preposition, “alone, apart, besides”. As a noun, “pole”, a bar for carrying. BDB gives “separation” as the proper sense, from which also “part” and “branch”.

• Alone, without company Genesis 2:18Genesis 32:24
• “I am left, I alone” 1 Kings 19:10
• The poles for carrying the ark Exodus 25:131 Kings 8:8
• “Besides”: what is added to something else Numbers 29:6

Historical and cultural background

The poles of acacia overlaid with gold were put through the rings of the ark to carry it (Exodus 25:13-14); in Solomon's temple they remained there, so long “that the ends of the poles were seen from the Holy Place” (1 Kings 8:8).

How we translate it

“Alone” 69 times, “besides” 45, “poles” 37, “apart” 14. The construction decides the sense: with a preposition it is “alone”, “apart” or “besides”; as a noun, “pole”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• alone ×69
• besides ×45
• poles ×37
• apart ×14
• themselves ×11
• only ×5
• himself ×4
• myself ×4
• bars ×2
• equal parts ×2
• others ×8

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×14
• Exodus×40
• Leviticus×5
• Numbers×22
• Deuteronomy×9
• Joshua×3
• Judges×9
• 1 Samuel×3
• 2 Samuel×8
• 1 Kings×17
• 2 Kings×5
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×9
• Ezra×2
• Nehemiah×2
• Esther×3
• Job×10
• Psalms×7
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Isaiah×9
• Ezekiel×4
• Daniel×3
• Hosea×1
• Zechariah×11

• Genesis 2:18

  And YHWH Elohim said, “It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make for him a helper corresponding to him.”

• Genesis 21:28

  Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

• Genesis 21:29

  And Abimelech said to Abraham, “What are these seven ewe lambs that you have set by themselves?”

• Genesis 26:1

  There was a famine in the land, besides the former famine that there was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went to Abimelech, king of the Philistines, to Gerar.

• Genesis 30:40

  Jacob separated the lambs, and he turned the faces of the flocks toward the striped and all the dark in the flock of Laban; and he made for himself flocks by themselves and did not put them with the flock of Laban.

• Genesis 32:16

  He put them in the hand of his servants, each herd by itself, and said to his servants, “Pass on ahead of me, and put a space between herd and herd.”

• Genesis 32:24

  And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the dawn came up.

• Genesis 42:38

  But he said, “My son will not go down with you, for his brother is dead, and he alone is left. If harm should befall him on the journey you are making, you would bring down my gray hair in sorrow to Sheol.”

• Genesis 43:32

  They served him by himself, and them by themselves, and the Egyptians who ate with him by themselves, for the Egyptians could not eat bread with the Hebrews, for that is an abomination to the Egyptians.

• Genesis 44:20

  And we said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a young child of his old age; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’

• Genesis 46:26

  All the persons who came with Jacob to Egypt, who came out of his thigh, not counting the wives of Jacob’s sons, all the persons were sixty-six.

• Genesis 47:26

  Joseph made it a statute, to this day, concerning the land of Egypt: to Pharaoh belongs the fifth. Only the land of the priests by itself did not become Pharaoh’s.

• Exodus 12:16

  On the first day a holy convocation, and on the seventh day a holy convocation you shall have. No work shall be done on them; only what is eaten by every person, that alone may be done by you.

• Exodus 12:37

  The sons of Israel set out from Rameses to Succoth, about six hundred thousand men on foot, besides the little ones.

• Exodus 18:14

  When Moses’ father-in-law saw all that he was doing for the people, he said, “What is this thing that you are doing for the people? Why do you sit alone, while all the people stand around you from morning until evening?”

• Exodus 18:18

  You will surely wear yourself out, both you and this people that is with you; for the task is too heavy for you; you cannot do it alone.

• Exodus 22:20

  Whoever sacrifices to gods, other than to YHWH alone, shall be devoted to destruction.

• Exodus 22:27

  for it is his only covering; it is his cloak for his skin. In what shall he sleep? And when he cries out to me, I will hear, for I am gracious.

• Exodus 24:2

  Moses alone shall come near to YHWH, but they shall not come near, and the people shall not come up with him.”

• Exodus 25:13

  You shall make poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

• Exodus 25:14

  You shall put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark to carry the ark with them.

• Exodus 25:15

  In the rings of the ark the poles shall be; they shall not be removed from it.

• Exodus 25:27

  Close to the rim the rings shall be, as holders for the poles to carry the table.

• Exodus 25:28

  You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with them.

• Exodus 26:9

  You shall join five curtains by themselves and six curtains by themselves, and you shall double over the sixth curtain at the front of the tent.

• Exodus 27:6

  You shall make poles for the altar, poles of acacia wood, and overlay them with bronze.

• Exodus 27:7

  Its poles shall be put into the rings, and the poles shall be on the two sides of the altar when it is carried.

• Exodus 30:4

  And two rings of gold you shall make for it under its molding; on its two sides you shall make them, on its two sides, and they shall be holders for poles to carry it with them.

• Exodus 30:5

  You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold.

• Exodus 30:34

  YHWH said to Moses, “Take for yourself fragrant spices: resin, onycha, and galbanum, fragrant spices with pure frankincense; in equal parts it shall be.

• Exodus 35:12

  the ark and its poles, the cover of expiation, and the veil that screens it;

• Exodus 35:13

  the table and its poles and all its utensils, and the bread of the presence;

• Exodus 35:15

  and the altar of incense and its poles, and the anointing oil and the fragrant incense, and the screen of the entrance for the entrance of the dwelling;

• Exodus 35:16

  the altar of burnt offering and its grating of bronze that belongs to it, its poles and all its utensils, the basin and its stand;

• Exodus 36:16

  And he joined five curtains by themselves, and six curtains by themselves.

• Exodus 37:4

  And he made poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold,

• Exodus 37:5

  and he put the poles into the rings on the sides of the ark, to carry the ark.

• Exodus 37:14

  Close to the rim were the rings, holders for the poles to carry the table.

• Exodus 37:15

  And he made the poles of acacia wood and overlaid them with gold, to carry the table.

• Exodus 37:27

  And two rings of gold he made for it under its molding, on its two sides, on its two sides, as holders for poles to carry it with them.

And 161 more times.