Original Language Studio
Judges 5:28
“The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
בְּעַדbᵉʻad · beh-ad'
H1157 · Hebrew
H1157 · Hebrew
- Definition
- in up to or over against; generally at, beside, among, behind, for, etc.
- Derivation
- from H5704 (עַד) with prepositional prefix;
- KJV renderings
- about, at by (means of), for, over, through, up (-on), within.
- Grammar
- בְּעַד֩ — preposition
- Usage
- Occurs 103 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 7:16Genesis 20:7Genesis 20:18Genesis 26:8Exodus 8:24
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read בְּעַד here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.