badal · separate

What it means

badal (בָּדַל) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “separate”.

Make a distinction between two things; also set something apart for a purpose.

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. To tell things apart; reserve for God.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• separated ×15
• separate ×12
• set apart ×9
• divide it ×2
• distinguished ×1
• what separates ×1
• will single him out ×1
• will surely ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×5
• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×8
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×5
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×3
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Ezra×6
• Nehemiah×3
• Isaiah×3
• Ezekiel×3

• Genesis 1:4

  And Elohim saw the light, that it was good; and Elohim separated the light from the darkness.

• Genesis 1:6

  And Elohim said, “Let there be a vault in the middle of the waters, and let it separate the waters from the waters.”

• Genesis 1:7

  And Elohim made the vault and separated the waters that were under the vault from the waters that were above the vault. And it was so.

• Genesis 1:14

  And Elohim said, “Let there be lights in the vault of the heavens to separate the day from the night, and let them be for signs and for appointed times and for days and years;

• Genesis 1:18

  and to rule over the day and over the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good.

• Exodus 26:33

  You shall hang the veil under the clasps, and bring there, inside the veil, the ark of the testimony; and the veil shall separate for you between the Holy Place and the Most Holy Place.

• Leviticus 1:17

  He shall tear it open by its wings —he shall not divide it— and the priest shall offer up in smoke it on the altar, on the wood that is on the fire; it is a burnt offering, a fire offering, a pleasing aroma to YHWH.

• Leviticus 5:8

  He shall bring them to the priest, and he shall present the one that is for the sin offering first, and wring its head at the back of its neck, but he shall not divide it.

• Leviticus 10:10

  and to separate the holy from the common, and the unclean from the clean,

• Leviticus 11:47

  to separate the unclean from the clean, and the animal that may be eaten from the animal that may not be eaten.

• Leviticus 20:24

  But I said to you, ‘You shall possess their ground, and I will give it to you to possess it, a land flowing with milk and honey.’ I am YHWH your Elohim, who have separated you from the peoples.

• Leviticus 20:25

  So you shall separate between the clean beast and the unclean, and between the unclean bird and the clean; and you shall not make yourselves detestable by beast or by bird or by anything that creeps on the ground, which I have separated for you as unclean.

• Leviticus 20:26

  And you shall be holy to me, for I, YHWH, am holy, and I have separated you from the peoples to be mine.

• Numbers 8:14

  Thus you shall separate the Levites from among the sons of Israel, and the Levites shall be mine.

• Numbers 16:9

  Is it too little for you that the Elohim of Israel has separated you from the community of Israel to bring you near to himself, to do the service of the dwelling of YHWH and to stand before the community to minister to them,

• Numbers 16:21

  “Separate yourselves from the midst of this community, and I will consume them in an instant.”

• Deuteronomy 4:41

  Then Moses set apart three cities beyond the Jordan, toward the sunrise,

• Deuteronomy 10:8

  At that time YHWH set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of YHWH, to stand before YHWH to minister to him and to bless in his name, to this day.

• Deuteronomy 19:2

  you shall set apart for yourself three cities in the midst of your land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you to possess it.

• Deuteronomy 19:7

  Therefore I am commanding you, saying, “You shall set apart for yourself three cities.”

• Deuteronomy 29:21

  And YHWH will single him out for evil from all the tribes of Israel, according to all the oaths of imprecation of the covenant written in this book of the instruction.

• 1 Kings 8:53

  For you separated them for yourself as an inheritance from all the peoples of the earth, as you spoke by means of Moses your servant, when you brought our fathers out of Egypt, Adonai YHWH.”

• 1 Chronicles 12:8

  From the Gadites there separated themselves and went to David, to the stronghold in the wilderness, mighty warriors, men of the army for war, who handled shield and spear; their faces were the faces of a lion, and they were like gazelles on the mountains in swiftness.

• 1 Chronicles 23:13

  The sons of Amram: Aaron and Moses. Aaron was set apart to sanctify him as most holy, he and his sons forever, to offer up in smoke before YHWH, to minister to him, and to bless in his name forever.

• 1 Chronicles 25:1

  David and the commanders of the army set apart for the service the sons of Asaph and of Heman and of Jeduthun, who prophesied with lyres, with harps, and with cymbals. The number of the workmen for their service was:

• 2 Chronicles 25:10

  Amaziah separated them, the band that had come to him from Ephraim, to go to their place; and their anger burned greatly against Judah, and they returned to their place in burning anger.

• Ezra 6:21

  And the sons of Israel who had returned from the exile ate, and everyone who had separated himself from the uncleanness of the nations of the land to join them, to seek YHWH, the Elohim of Israel.

• Ezra 8:24

  And I set apart twelve of the leaders of the priests: Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and with them ten of their brothers;

• Ezra 9:1

  And when these things were finished, the officials approached me, saying, “The people of Israel and the priests and the Levites have not separated themselves from the peoples of the lands, according to their abominations, those of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Jebusite, the Ammonite, the Moabite, the Egyptian, and the Amorite.

• Ezra 10:8

  and that everyone who did not come within three days, according to the counsel of the officials and the elders, all his goods would be devoted to destruction, and he himself would be separated from the assembly of the exiles.

• Ezra 10:11

  So now, give acknowledgment to YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, and do his will, and separate yourselves from the peoples of the land and from the foreign women.”

• Ezra 10:16

  And the sons of the exile did so. And there were set apart Ezra the priest and men, heads of the fathers’ houses, according to their fathers’ house, and all of them by name; and they sat down on the first day of the tenth month to inquire into the matter;

• Nehemiah 9:2

  And the offspring of Israel separated themselves from all foreigners, and they stood and confessed their sins and the iniquities of their fathers.

• Nehemiah 10:28

  And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of Elohim, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all who knew how to understand,

• Nehemiah 13:3

  It happened that when they heard the law, they separated all the mixed people from Israel.

• Isaiah 56:3

  And let not the son of the foreigner who has joined himself to YHWH say, “YHWH will surely separate me from his people”; and let not the eunuch say, “Look, I am a dry tree.”

• Isaiah 59:2

  But your iniquities have been what separates between you and your Elohim, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.

• Ezekiel 22:26

  Her priests have done violence to my instruction and have profaned my holy things; between the holy and the common they have not distinguished, and between the unclean and the clean they have not taught; and from my Sabbaths they have hidden their eyes, and I am profaned in their midst.

• Ezekiel 39:14

  And they will set apart men of continual duty passing through the land, burying, with those who pass through, those who remain on the face of the land, to cleanse it; at the end of seven months they will search.

• Ezekiel 42:20

  On the four sides he measured it; it had a wall all around, the length, five hundred, and the width, five hundred, to separate between the holy and the common.

And 2 more times.