badad · alone, apart

What it means

badad (בָּדָד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “alone, apart”.

Apart, alone: separated from the others.

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. Set apart from others; sometimes safe, sometimes forsaken.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• alone ×9
• solitary ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• Deuteronomy×2
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×2
• Lamentations×2
• Micah×1

• Numbers 23:9

  For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I gaze on him. Look, a people that dwells alone, and does not count itself among the nations!

• Deuteronomy 32:12

  YHWH alone led him, and there was no foreign god with him.

• Deuteronomy 33:28

  And Israel dwells in security; alone the fountain of Jacob, toward a land of grain and new wine; also his heavens drip dew.

• Psalms 4:8

  In peace I will lie down and right away sleep, for you alone, YHWH, make me dwell in safety.

• Isaiah 27:10

  For the fortified city is solitary, an abode sent away and forsaken like the wilderness; there the calf will graze, and there it will lie down and consume its branches.

• Jeremiah 15:17

  I did not sit in the circle of those who make merry, nor did I exult; because of your hand I sat alone, for with indignation you filled me.

• Jeremiah 49:31

  Rise up, go up against a nation at ease, that dwells in security, declares YHWH, that has no doors and no bar; they dwell alone.

• Lamentations 1:1

  How she sits alone, the city great with people! She has become like a widow, the great one among the nations; the princess among the provinces has become subject to forced labor.

• Lamentations 3:28

  Let him sit alone and be silent, because he has laid it on him.

• Micah 7:14

  Shepherd your people with your rod, the flock of your inheritance, which dwells alone, in the forest in the midst of a fertile field; let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of long ago.