Bible word study

Bad (Strong’s H905): Meaning in the Bible

Bad (בַּד) is the Hebrew word numbered H905 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, separation; by implication, a part of the body, branch of a tree, bar for carrying; figuratively, chief of a city; especially (with prepositional prefix) as an adverb, apart, only, besides. In the King James Bible it is translated alone, apart, bar, besides, branch.

• Original wordבַּד
• Transliterationbad
• Pronunciationbad
• Part of speechnoun (masculine) (n-m)
• Strong’s numberH905
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. from H909;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Bad appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Bad (H905) stands behind 56 English renderings in 50 verses across 14 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Exodus (30), Numbers (5), Deuteronomy (3).

How the King James Bible renders Bad, by count

• staves37 of 56 (66 percent)
• beside3 of 56 (5 percent)
• branches3 of 56 (5 percent)
• alone2 of 56 (4 percent)
• only2 of 56 (4 percent)
• strength2 of 56 (4 percent)

Three places to read Bad

• Genesis 26:1 And there was a famine in the land, beside the first famine that was in the days of Abraham. And Isaac went unto Abimelech king of the Philistines unto Gerar.
• Exodus 37:4 And he made staves of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold.
• Numbers 11:14 I am not able to bear all this people alone, because it is too heavy for me.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Bad in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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