בָּדָא
bada · devise, invent
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H908 · appears 2 times in the Bible
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bada (בָּדָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “devise, invent”.
Something on one's own. In the Bible it appears only twice (1 Kings 12:33; Nehemiah 6:8), both times of something a person makes up himself.
How to say it
ba·da
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
- To make something up out of one's own head.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- are inventing them ×1
- he had devised ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- 1 Kings 12:33
He went up to the altar that he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, in the month that he had devised from his heart; and he held a festival for the sons of Israel, and went up to the altar to offer up in smoke.
- Nehemiah 6:8
And I sent to him, saying, “It has not happened according to these words that you are saying, but out of your own heart you are inventing them.”