Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
linen
Usage: linen, white linen
Bad means “linen” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G906 — ballo (“arise”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H906 בַּד (bad) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. bad (bad) n-m. 1. flaxen thread or yarn 2. (hence) a linen garment It has 19 linked Bible usages across 7 books. Visible English usage signals include linen. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
bad (bad) n-m. 1. flaxen thread or yarn 2. (hence) a linen garment [perhaps from H909 (in the sense of divided fibres)] KJV: linen. Root(s): H909
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linen
Usage: linen, white linen
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render bad, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H906.
And thou shalt make them linen breeches to cover their nakedness; from the loins even unto the thighs they shall reach:
And a mitre of fine linen, and goodly bonnets of fine linen, and linen breeches of fine twined linen,
And the priest shall put on his linen garment, and his linen breeches shall he put upon his flesh, and take up the ashes which the fire hath consumed with the burnt offering on the altar, and he shall put them beside the altar.
He shall put on the holy linen coat, and he shall have the linen breeches upon his flesh, and shall be girded with a linen girdle, and with the linen mitre shall he be attired: these are holy garments; therefore shall he wash his flesh in water, and so put them on.
And Aaron shall come into the tabernacle of the congregation, and shall put off the linen garments, which he put on when he went into the holy place, and shall leave them there:
And the priest, whom he shall anoint, and whom he shall consecrate to minister in the priest's office in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen clothes, even the holy garments:
But Samuel ministered before the LORD, being a child, girded with a linen ephod.
And the king said to Doeg, Turn thou, and fall upon the priests. And Doeg the Edomite turned, and he fell upon the priests, and slew on that day fourscore and five persons that did wear a linen ephod.
And David danced before the LORD with all his might; and David was girded with a linen ephod.
And David was clothed with a robe of fine linen, and all the Levites that bare the ark, and the singers, and Chenaniah the master of the song with the singers: David also had upon him an ephod of linen.
And, behold, six men came from the way of the higher gate, which lieth toward the north, and every man a slaughter weapon in his hand; and one man among them was clothed with linen, with a writer's inkhorn by his side: and they went in, and stood beside the brasen altar.
And the glory of the God of Israel was gone up from the cherub, whereupon he was, to the threshold of the house. And he called to the man clothed with linen, which had the writer's inkhorn by his side;
And, behold, the man clothed with linen, which had the inkhorn by his side, reported the matter, saying, I have done as thou hast commanded me.
And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between the cherubims, and scatter them over the city. And he went in in my sight.
And it came to pass, that when he had commanded the man clothed with linen, saying, Take fire from between the wheels, from between the cherubims; then he went in, and stood beside the wheels.
And one cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubims unto the fire that was between the cherubims, and took thereof, and put it into the hands of him that was clothed with linen: who took it, and went out.
Then I lifted up mine eyes, and looked, and behold a certain man clothed in linen, whose loins were girded with fine gold of Uphaz:
And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders?
And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H906, grouped by book.
Bad (Strong's H906) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "linen". bad (bad) n-m. 1. flaxen thread or yarn 2. (hence) a linen garment
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H906 across 7 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H906 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as linen. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.