# בָּדַל (badal)

Israeli respelling: ba-dal. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H914. 40 Old Testament occurrences.

to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.)

King James renderings: (make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate (self, -ation), sever (out), [idiom] utterly.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/badal-h914

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 1:4](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/4) — And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
- [Genesis 1:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/6) — And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.
- [Genesis 1:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/7) — And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it wa…
- [Genesis 1:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/14) — And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seaso…
- [Genesis 1:18](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/1/18) — And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.
- [Exodus 26:33](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/exodus/26/33) — And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail…
- [Leviticus 1:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/1/17) — And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood…
- [Leviticus 5:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/5/8) — And he shall bring them unto the priest, who shall offer that which is for the sin offering first, and wring off his head from his neck, bu…
- [Leviticus 10:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/10/10) — And that ye may put difference between holy and unholy, and between unclean and clean;
- [Leviticus 11:47](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/11/47) — To make a difference between the unclean and the clean, and between the beast that may be eaten and the beast that may not be eaten.
- [Leviticus 20:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/24) — But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey:…
- [Leviticus 20:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/25) — Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls a…
- [Leviticus 20:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/20/26) — And ye shall be holy unto me: for I the LORD am holy, and have severed you from other people, that ye should be mine.
- [Numbers 8:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/8/14) — Thus shalt thou separate the Levites from among the children of Israel: and the Levites shall be mine.
- [Numbers 16:9](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/9) — Seemeth it but a small thing unto you, that the God of Israel hath separated you from the congregation of Israel, to bring you near to hims…
- [Numbers 16:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/21) — Separate yourselves from among this congregation, that I may consume them in a moment.
- [Deuteronomy 4:41](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/4/41) — Then Moses severed three cities on this side Jordan toward the sunrising;
- [Deuteronomy 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/10/8) — At that time the LORD separated the tribe of Levi, to bear the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to minister unto h…
- [Deuteronomy 19:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/19/2) — Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
- [Deuteronomy 19:7](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/19/7) — Wherefore I command thee, saying, Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.
- [Deuteronomy 29:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/21) — And the LORD shall separate him unto evil out of all the tribes of Israel, according to all the curses of the covenant that are written in…
- [1 Kings 8:53](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-kings/8/53) — For thou didst separate them from among all the people of the earth, to be thine inheritance, as thou spakest by the hand of Moses thy serv…
- [1 Chronicles 12:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/12/8) — And of the Gadites there separated themselves unto David into the hold to the wilderness men of might, and men of war fit for the battle, t…
- [1 Chronicles 23:13](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/23/13) — The sons of Amram; Aaron and Moses: and Aaron was separated, that he should sanctify the most holy things, he and his sons for ever, to bur…
- [1 Chronicles 25:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/1-chronicles/25/1) — Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophe…
- [2 Chronicles 25:10](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/25/10) — Then Amaziah separated them, to wit, the army that was come to him out of Ephraim, to go home again: wherefore their anger was greatly kind…
- [Ezra 6:21](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/6/21) — And the children of Israel, which were come again out of captivity, and all such as had separated themselves unto them from the filthiness…
- [Ezra 8:24](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/8/24) — Then I separated twelve of the chief of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brethren with them,
- [Ezra 9:1](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/9/1) — Now when these things were done, the princes came to me, saying, The people of Israel, and the priests, and the Levites, have not separated…
- [Ezra 10:8](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/8) — And that whosoever would not come within three days, according to the counsel of the princes and the elders, all his substance should be fo…
- [Ezra 10:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/11) — Now therefore make confession unto the LORD God of your fathers, and do his pleasure: and separate yourselves from the people of the land,…
- [Ezra 10:16](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezra/10/16) — And the children of the captivity did so. And Ezra the priest, with certain chief of the fathers, after the house of their fathers, and all…
- [Nehemiah 9:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/9/2) — And the seed of Israel separated themselves from all strangers, and stood and confessed their sins, and the iniquities of their fathers.
- [Nehemiah 10:28](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/10/28) — And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the porters, the singers, the Nethinims, and all they that had separated themselves f…
- [Nehemiah 13:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/nehemiah/13/3) — Now it came to pass, when they had heard the law, that they separated from Israel all the mixed multitude.
- [Isaiah 56:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/56/3) — Neither let the son of the stranger, that hath joined himself to the LORD, speak, saying, The LORD hath utterly separated me from his peopl…
- [Isaiah 59:2](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/59/2) — But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
- [Ezekiel 22:26](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/22/26) — Her priests have violated my law, and have profaned mine holy things: they have put no difference between the holy and profane, neither hav…
- [Ezekiel 39:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/39/14) — And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face…
- [Ezekiel 42:20](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/ezekiel/42/20) — He measured it by the four sides: it had a wall round about, five hundred reeds long, and five hundred broad, to make a separation between…