Quick Definition
to separate
Strong's Definition
to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV Usage: (make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate (self, -ation), sever (out), [idiom] utterly.
TWOT Reference: 203
Outline of Biblical Usage
Septuagint (LXX) Greek Equivalents
This Hebrew word is translated by the following Greek words in the Septuagint:
STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon
בָּדַל (ba.dal) — 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
UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew
verb · בָּדָל · בָּדִיל · מִבְדָּלָה
Non-Whole | verb hif
to separate, to sever = action by which part of an entity is separated from the rest, either by detaching it completely it or by creating a kind of barrier (visible or invisible) between the selected part and the rest of the entity
GEN 1:4 · GEN 1:6 · GEN 1:7 · GEN 1:14 · GEN 1:18 · EXO 26:33 · LEV 1:17 · LEV 5:8 · EZK 42:20
Dissociate | verb nif
to separate oneself, to defect, to sequester oneself = action by which humans disassociate themselves from a group of people
NUM 16:21 · 1CH 12:9 · EZR 6:21 · EZR 9:1 · EZR 10:11 · EZR 10:16 · NEH 9:2 · NEH 10:29
Dissociate | verb hif, verb nif
to separate, to set apart, to single out, to exclude, to detach = action by which part of a group is dissociated from the rest
LEV 20:24 · LEV 20:25 · LEV 20:26 · NUM 8:14 · NUM 16:9 · DEU 4:41 · DEU 10:8 · DEU 19:2 · DEU 19:7 · DEU 29:20 · 1KI 8:53 · 1CH 23:13 · 1CH 25:1 · 2CH 25:10 · EZR 8:24 · EZR 10:8 · EZR 10:16 · NEH 13:3 · ISA 56:3 · ISA 56:3 · ISA 59:2 · EZK 39:14
1 EZR 10:16 · 2CH 25:10 The preposition ל preceding the direct object in this phrase is probably an aramaism.
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Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon
[בָּדַל] vb. be divided, separate Hiph. divide, separate divide, separate, subj. God
separate, set apart
make a distinction between clean and unclean, holy and profane
divide into parts
Niph. (reflex. of Hiph. 2)
pass. be separated
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