Isolation
בָּדָדStrong’s H0910badad (ba-dad)
Appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Badad is the Hebrew word usually translated “alone”. It appears in 11 verses of the Old Testament.
“All the days wherein the plague shall be in him he shall be defiled; he is unclean: he shall dwell alone; without the camp shall his habitation be.”
Meaning
- Isolation, withdrawal, separationan isolated city
- Alonesecurity (fig.)
How it's translated
- alone 11
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 2
- Jeremiah 2
- Lamentations 2
- Leviticus 1
- Numbers 1
- Psalms 1
8 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 23:9For from the top of the rocks I see him, and from the hills I behold him: lo, the people shall dwell alone, and shall not be reckoned among the nations.
- Deuteronomy 32:12So the LORD alone did lead him, and there was no strange god with him.
- Deuteronomy 33:28Israel then shall dwell in safety alone: the fountain of Jacob shall be upon a land of corn and wine; also his heavens shall drop down dew.
- Psalms 4:8I will both lay me down in peace, and sleep: for thou, LORD, only makest me dwell in safety.
- Isaiah 27:10Yet the defenced city shall be desolate, and the habitation forsaken, and left like a wilderness: there shall the calf feed, and there shall he lie down, and consume the branches thereof.
- Jeremiah 15:17I sat not in the assembly of the mockers, nor rejoiced; I sat alone because of thy hand: for thou hast filled me with indignation.
Hebrew dictionary
בָּדָד badad · isolation
1) isolation, withdrawal, separation 1a) an isolated city adv 2) alone 2a) security (fig.)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “alone” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ALO'NE, adjective
[all and one.]
- Single; solitary; without the presence of another; applied to a person or thing.“It is not good that man should be alone” Genesis 2:18
- It is applied to two or more persons or things, when separate from others, in a place or condition by themselves; without company.“And when they were alone he expounded all things to his disciples” Mark 4:34
- Only.“Thou whose name alone is Jehovah” Psalms 83:18
All definitions and other forms of “alone”
ALO'NE, adverb
Separately; by itself.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.