בָּגַד
bâgad · baw-gad'
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to cover (with a garment); figuratively, to act covertly; by implication, to pillage
- to cover (with a garment)
- figuratively, to act covertly
- by implication, to pillage
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: deal deceitfully (treacherously, unfaithfully), offend, transgress(-or), (depart), treacherous (dealer, -ly, man), unfaithful(-ly, man), [idiom] very.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- גGimel3
Picture: throwing stick (or camel)
- Concrete
- staff · throw stick · camel · foot
- Extended
- to carry · to gather up · walking · pride lifted up
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the house, what is within › to carry, to lift up › the doorway, the way in
The house, what is within that works to carry, to lift up of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בָּגַד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
49 occurrences · 49 OT · 0 NT · 44 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- treacherously5 · 16%
- the transgressors2 · 6%
- of transgressors2 · 6%
- have dealt treacherously2 · 6%
- seeing he hath dealt deceitfully1 · 3%
- dealt treacherously1 · 3%
- ye have transgressed1 · 3%
- have dealt deceitfully1 · 3%
- which transgress1 · 3%
- transgressors1 · 3%
- behold, i should offend1 · 3%
- and dealt unfaithfully1 · 3%
- and the transgressors1 · 3%
- them: but transgressors1 · 3%
- of the transgressors1 · 3%
- and the transgressor1 · 3%
- of the transgressor1 · 3%
- in an unfaithful man1 · 3%
- unto me; the treacherous dealer1 · 3%
- dealeth treacherously1 · 3%
- unto me! the treacherous dealers1 · 3%
- yea, the treacherous dealers1 · 3%
- and dealest treacherously1 · 3%
- and they dealt not treacherously1 · 3%
- to deal treacherously1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.