badal (to separate)

Meaning

To divide, separate(Hiphil) · (Niphal)

How it's translated

and he separated 3
separating 2
to separate 2
and to separate 2
he will separate 2
i have separated 2
and you will separate 2
he set apart 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Leviticus 7
Ezra 6
Genesis 5
Deuteronomy 5
Numbers 3
1 Chronicles 3

12 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Genesis 1:6And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
Genesis 1:7And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.
Genesis 1:14And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:
Genesis 1:18And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
Exodus 26:33And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.
Leviticus 1:17And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.

All 40 verses, by book

Genesis 5: 1:4 1:6 1:7 1:14 1:18
Exodus 1: 26:33
Leviticus 7: 1:17 5:8 10:10 11:47 20:24 20:25 20:26
Numbers 3: 8:14 16:9 16:21
Deuteronomy 5: 4:41 10:8 19:2 19:7 29:21
1 Kings 1: 8:53
1 Chronicles 3: 12:8 23:13 25:1
2 Chronicles 1: 25:10
Ezra 6: 6:21 8:24 9:1 10:8 10:11 10:16
Nehemiah 3: 9:2 10:28 13:3
Isaiah 2: 56:3 59:2
Ezekiel 3: 22:26 39:14 42:20

Hebrew dictionary

בָּדַל badal · to separate

1) to divide, separate 1a) (Hiphil) 1a1) to divide, separate, sever 1a2) to separate, set apart 1a3) to make a distinction, difference 1a4) to divide into parts 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to separate oneself from (reflexive of 1a2) 1b2) to withdraw from 1b3) to separate oneself unto 1b4) to be separated 1b5) to be excluded 1b6) to be set apart

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “separate” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SEP'ARATE, verb transitive

[Latin separo.]

To disunite; to divide; to sever; to part, in almost any manner, either things naturally or casually joined.
To set apart from a number for a particular service.“Separate me Barnabas and Saul” Acts 13:2
To dilconnect; as, to separate man and wife by divorce.
To make space between.“Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me” Genesis 13:9

All definitions and other forms of “separate”

SEP'ARATE, verb intransitive

To part; to be disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from each other.
To cleave; to open; as, the parts of a substance separate by drying or freezing.

SEP'ARATE, adjective

[Latin separatus.]

Divided from the rest; being parted from another; disjoined; disconnected; used of things that have been united or connected.
Unconnected; not united; distinct; used of things that have not been connected.“Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners” Hebrews 7:26
Disunited from the body; as a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.