# H914 בָּדַל

בָּדַל (bâdal), Strong’s H914: to divide (in variation senses literally or figuratively, separate, distinguish, differ, select, etc.) KJV: (make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate…

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

KJV: (make, put) difference, divide (asunder), (make) separate (self, -ation), sever (out)…

Occurs 42 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [בָּדַל] vb. be divided, separate
- Hiph. divide, separate
- 1 divide, separate, subj. God
- 2 separate, set apart
- 3 make a distinction between clean and unclean, holy and profane
- 4 divide into parts
- Niph.
- 1 (reflex. of Hiph. 2)
- 2 pass. be separated

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 1:4](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=4) — God saw the light, and saw that it was good. God divided the light from the darkness.
- [Genesis 1:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=6) — God said, “Let there be an expanse in the middle of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.”
- [Genesis 1:7](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=7) — God made the expanse, and divided the waters which were under the expanse from the waters which were above the expanse…
- [Genesis 1:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=14) — God said, “Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs to…
- [Genesis 1:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/1?v=18) — and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness. God saw that it was good.
- [Exodus 26:33](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/exodus/26?v=33) — You shall hang up the veil under the clasps, and shall bring the ark of the covenant in there within the veil. The veil…
- [Leviticus 1:17](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/1?v=17) — He shall tear it by its wings, but shall not divide it apart. The priest shall burn it on the altar, on the wood that…
- [Leviticus 5:8](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/5?v=8) — He shall bring them to the priest, who shall first offer the one which is for the sin offering. He shall wring off its…
- [Leviticus 10:10](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/10?v=10) — You are to make a distinction between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean.
- [Leviticus 11:47](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/11?v=47) — to make a distinction between the unclean and the clean, and between the living thing that may be eaten and the living…