bad · linen

What it means

bad (בַּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “linen”.

White linen cloth, and garments made of it.

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. White plant-fiber cloth, or holy garments made of it.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Leviticus×8
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Ezekiel×6
• Daniel×3

• Exodus 28:42

  Make for them linen undergarments to cover the flesh of their nakedness; from the hips to the thighs they shall reach.

• Exodus 39:28

  and the turban of fine linen, and the headdresses of the caps of fine linen, and the linen undergarments of twisted fine linen;

• Leviticus 6:10

  The priest shall put on his linen garment, and he shall put on linen undergarments on his flesh; and he shall take up the ashes left when the fire has consumed the burnt offering on the altar, and put them beside the altar.

• Leviticus 16:4

  He shall put on a holy linen tunic, and linen undergarments shall be on his body, and he shall tie a linen sash around him, and wrap his head with a linen turban; they are holy garments. He shall bathe his body in water and put them on.

• Leviticus 16:23

  Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and leave them there.

• Leviticus 16:32

  And the priest who is anointed and ordained to serve as priest in place of his father shall make expiation; he shall put on the linen garments, the holy garments.

• 1 Samuel 2:18

  But Samuel was ministering before YHWH, a boy girded with a linen ephod.

• 1 Samuel 22:18

  The king said to Doeg, “You turn and fall upon the priests.” So Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and he put to death on that day eighty-five men who wore the linen ephod.

• 2 Samuel 6:14

  David was dancing with all his strength before YHWH, and David was girded with a linen ephod.

• 1 Chronicles 15:27

  David was wrapped in a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites who were carrying the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah, the chief of the carrying of the singers; and on David was a linen ephod.

• Ezekiel 9:2

  And look, six men coming from the direction of the upper gate that faces north, each with his instrument for smashing in his hand; and one man in their midst clothed in linen, with a scribe's inkhorn at his waist; and they came in and stood beside the bronze altar.

• Ezekiel 9:3

  And the glory of the Elohim of Israel had gone up from upon the cherub on which it had been, to the threshold of the house; and he called to the man clothed in linen, who had the scribe's inkhorn at his waist.

• Ezekiel 9:11

  And look, the man clothed in linen, who had the inkhorn at his waist, brought back word, saying, “I have done according to all that you commanded me.”

• Ezekiel 10:2

  And he spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, “Go in between the whirl, under the cherub, and fill your cupped hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city.” And he went in before my eyes.

• Ezekiel 10:6

  And it came about, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, “Take fire from between the whirl, from between the cherubim,” that he went in and stood beside the wheel.

• Ezekiel 10:7

  And the cherub stretched out his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and lifted some and put it into the cupped hands of the one clothed in linen; and he took it and went out.

• Daniel 10:5

  I lifted my eyes and looked, and look, a man clothed in linen, and his waist girded with fine gold of Uphaz;

• Daniel 12:6

  And one said to the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, “Until when will it be until the end of these wonders?”

• Daniel 12:7

  And I heard the man clothed in linen, who was above the waters of the river, and he raised his right hand and his left hand to the heavens and swore by the one who lives forever that it will be for a time, times, and half a time; and when the shattering of the power of the holy people comes to an end, all these things will be completed.

And 4 more times.