בַּד
bad · bad
flaxen thread or yarn; hence, a linen garment
Lexicon
Derivation: perhaps from H909 (בָּדַד) (in the sense of divided fibres);
flaxen thread or yarn; hence, a linen garment
- flaxen thread or yarn
- hence, a linen garment
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: linen.
Letters
- בBet2
Picture: floor plan of a tent or house
- Concrete
- house · tent · dwelling
- Extended
- family · household · what is inside · in
- 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 › the doorway, the way in
The house, what is within of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of בַּד 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
23 occurrences · 23 OT · 0 NT · 15 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- with linen6 · 26%
- with a linen3 · 13%
- in linen3 · 13%
- the linen2 · 9%
- them linen1 · 4%
- and linen1 · 4%
- on his linen1 · 4%
- and his linen1 · 4%
- linen1 · 4%
- and he shall have the linen1 · 4%
- and with the linen1 · 4%
- a linen1 · 4%
- of linen1 · 4%
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.