To repair
בָּדַקStrong’s H0918badaq (ba-daq)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Badaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “mend”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And they put it in the hand of the workmen that had the oversight of the house of the LORD, and they gave it to the workmen that wrought in the house of the LORD, to repair and amend the house:”
Meaning
- (Qal) to mend, repair (a building)
How it's translated
- to mend 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 2 Chronicles 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
בָּדַק badaq · to repair
(Qal) to mend, repair (a building)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “mend” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MEND, verb transitive
[Latin emendo, menda, a fault, spot or blemish.]
- To repair, as a breach; to supply a part broken or defective; as, to mend a garment, a road, a mill-dam, a fence, etc.
- To correct; to set right; to alter for the better; as, to mend the life or manners.
- To repair; to restore to a sound state; as, to mend a feeble or broken constitution.
- To help; to advance; to make better.
All definitions and other forms of “mend”
- To improve; to hasten.
MEND, verb intransitive
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to improve. We say, a feeble constitution mends daily; a sick man mends, or is convalescent.
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.