Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
be alone
Usage: 1) to withdraw, be separate, be isolated 1a) (Qal) an army straggler (part.) 1a1) of Ephraim (metaph.) 2) (TWOT) alone
Badad means “alone” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G909 — baptismos (“baptism”) in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H909 בָּדַד (badad) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. badad (baw-dad') v. 1. to divide 2. (reflexively) be solitary It has 3 linked Bible usages across 3 books. Visible English usage signals include alone. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
badad (baw-dad') v. 1. to divide 2. (reflexively) be solitary [a primitive root] KJV: alone.
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be alone
Usage: 1) to withdraw, be separate, be isolated 1a) (Qal) an army straggler (part.) 1a1) of Ephraim (metaph.) 2) (TWOT) alone
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render badad, 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.
Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.
3 indexed usages in Old Testament.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
First 3 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H909.
I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
Howl, O gate; cry, O city; thou, whole Palestina, art dissolved: for there shall come from the north a smoke, and none shall be alone in his appointed times.
For they are gone up to Assyria, a wild ass alone by himself: Ephraim hath hired lovers.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H909, grouped by book.
Badad (Strong's H909) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "alone". badad (baw-dad') v. 1. to divide 2. (reflexively) be solitary
This page currently indexes 3 linked usages for Strong's H909 across 3 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H909 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as alone. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.