בָּדָא
bâdâʼ · H908 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences
Meanings
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to choose, to devise, to invent, to make up
Literally: to devise from (one's own) heart; hence: to make a decision based on one's own thinking only, and without being informed by a reality outside of oneself
Examples1 Kings 12:33 Then he went up to the altar which he had made in Bethel on the fifteenth day in the eighth month, the month that he had devised in his own heart; and he instituted a feast for the sons of Israel and went up to the altar to burn incense.
Nehemiah 6:8 Then I sent a message to him saying, “Nothing like these things that you are saying has been done, but you are inventing them in your own mind.”
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Who or what does itSubject
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- אַתָּהyou 1
- Not stated: he, she or it 1
What it acts on, or what is saidObject
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶםthem 1
With prepositionsPrepositional phrases
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- מִןfrom+ לֵבheart, mind 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- חָשַׁב châshab · H2803 · to think about, to consider, to plan
- Hebrew verb for thinking or devising, shares the planning/devising aspect with בָּדָא, though חָשַׁב is broader and not inherently deceptive
- כָּזַב kâzab · H3576 · to lie, to utter lies, to prove someone to be a liar
- Hebrew verb for lying or deceiving, shares the falsehood aspect with בָּדָא's sense of feigning or fabricating untruth
In the other Testament 2 words
- πλάσσω plássō · G4111 · to form, to fashion, to make
- Greek verb for forming or fabricating, used metaphorically for devising or inventing, as in 2 Peter 1:16 'cleverly devised myths' (πλάσσω shares the sense of artificial fabrication/invention with בָּדָא)
- ψεύδομαι pseúdomai · G5574 · to lie, to tell falsehoods
- Greek verb for lying or speaking falsely, directly corresponds to the deceptive fabrication aspect of בָּדָא (to feign or devise falsehood)
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Think002004002013
- The word means to devise or invent something in one's own mind, as when Jeroboam devised a feast in his own heart in 1 Kings 12:33, or when Nehemiah's opponents are said to be inventing false charges, so it belongs to this domain of mental conception and reasoning.
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H908. bada בָּדָא verb devise, invent (bad sense) (Mishna id., Aramaic בְּדָא, invent;…
בָּדָא verb devise, invent (bad sense) (Mishna id., Aramaic בְּדָא, invent; compare Arabic begin, make a beginning —
Qal Perfect בָּדָא 1Ki 12:33; Participle suffix בּוֺדָאם (instead of בּוֺדְאָם) Neh 6:8 — Jeroboam devised a feast in 8th month 1Ki 12:33; invent accusation Neh 6:8.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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