Words

בָּדַל H914

Home gloss

distinguish

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

divide / separate

Note

The priestly verb for holy and common, clean and unclean (Lev 10:10; 11:47; 20:25); the chapter's work of creation is a priest's work of sorting. "Separate" is kept for פָּרַד (2:10)

Rulings

2, 3

Occurrences (5)

Genesis 1

• 1:4 And Elohim saw the light, that it was good; and Elohim distinguished between the light and between the darkness.
• 1:6 And Elohim said, "Let a hammered sheet be in the middle of the waters, and let it be distinguishing between waters to waters."
• 1:7 And Elohim made the hammered sheet, and distinguished between the waters that were under the hammered sheet and between the waters that were above the hammered sheet. And it was thus.
• 1:14 And Elohim said, "Let light-givers be in the hammered sheet of the skies, to distinguish between the day and between the night; and let them be for signs and for appointed feasts, and for days and years;
• 1:18 and to rule in the day and in the night, and to distinguish between the light and between the darkness. And Elohim saw that it was good.