Word study
Apart
9 Hebrew and 3 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “apart”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “apart” or one of its forms.
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Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- בָּדַל bâdalbe divided, separatetranslated this way 10 times of its 41 uses · Strong’s H914Verb · Translated: separated 6, set apart 6, separate 6, distinguish 3Full study and all 40 verses →
Leviticus 20:24 But I have told you that you will inherit their land, since I will give it to you as an inheritance — a land flowing with milk and honey. I am the LORD your God, who has set you apart from the peoples.
Deuteronomy 10:8 At that time the LORD set apart the tribe of Levi to carry the ark of the covenant of the LORD, to stand before the LORD to serve Him, and to pronounce blessings in His name, as they do to this day.
- קָדַשׁ qâdashbe set apart, consecratedtranslated this way 8 times of its 169 uses · Strong’s H6942Verb · Translated: consecrate 40, consecrated 33, dedicated 10, sanctifies 8Full study and all 151 verses →
Exodus 19:23 But Moses said to the LORD, “The people cannot come up Mount Sinai, for You solemnly warned us, ‘Put a boundary around the mountain and set it apart as holy.’”
Leviticus 21:8 You are to regard him as holy, since he presents the food of your God. He shall be holy to you, because I the LORD am holy — I who set you apart.
- חֵרֶם chêremdevoted thingtranslated this way 6 times of its 35 uses · Strong’s H2764Noun · Translated: devoted 5, set apart for destruction 4, things devoted to destruction 4, net 4Full study and all 30 verses →
Leviticus 27:28 Nothing that a man sets apart to the LORD from all he owns — whether a man, an animal, or his inherited land — can be sold or redeemed; everything so devoted is most holy to the LORD.
Deuteronomy 7:26 And you must not bring any detestable thing into your house, or you, like it, will be set apart for destruction. You are to utterly detest and abhor it, because it is set apart for destruction.
- חָרַם châramban, devote, exterminatetranslated this way 4 times of its 49 uses · Strong’s H2763Verb · Translated: devoted to destruction 12, devote to destruction 6, devote them to destruction 5, set apart for destruction 4Full study and all 47 verses →
Exodus 22:20 If anyone sacrifices to any god other than the LORD alone, he must be set apart for destruction.
Leviticus 27:29 No person set apart for destruction may be ransomed; he must surely be put to death.
- רוּם rûmbe high, exalted, risetranslated this way 3 times of its 185 uses · Strong’s H7311Verb · Translated: exalted 23, exalt 18, lift 14, raised 10Full study and all 180 verses →
Ezekiel 48:8 Bordering the territory of Judah, from east to west, will be the portion you are to set apart. It will be 25,000 cubits wide, and the length of a tribal portion from east to west. In the center will be the sanctuary.
Ezekiel 48:9 The special portion you set apart to the LORD shall be 25,000 cubits long and 10,000 cubits wide.
- בַּד badseparationtranslated this way 2 times of its 163 uses · Strong’s H905Noun · Translated: alone 43, poles 34, addition 26, only 12Full study and all 156 verses →
Genesis 30:40 Jacob set apart the young, but made the rest face the streaked dark-colored sheep in Laban’s flocks. Then he set his own stock apart and did not put them with Laban’s animals.
Judges 20:17 The Israelites, apart from Benjamin, mobilized 400,000 swordsmen, each one an experienced warrior.
- קָרַע qârateartranslated this way 2 times of its 63 uses · Strong’s H7167Verb · Translated: tore 25, torn 15, tear 11, away 3Full study and all 60 verses →
1 Kings 13:3 That day the man of God gave a sign, saying, “The LORD has spoken this sign: ‘Surely the altar will be split apart, and the ashes upon it will be poured out.’”
1 Kings 13:5 And the altar was split apart, and the ashes poured out, according to the sign that the man of God had given by the word of the LORD.
- בִּלְעֲדֵי bilădêapart from, except, withouttranslated this way 2 times of its 17 uses · Strong’s H1107Preposition · Translated: but me 5, cannot 2, other 2, besides 2Full study and all 16 verses →
2 Kings 18:25 So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this place to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
Isaiah 36:10 So now, was it apart from the LORD that I have come up against this land to destroy it? The LORD Himself said to me, ‘Go up against this land and destroy it.’”
- בָּקַע bâqacleave, break open or throughtranslated this way 2 times of its 51 uses · Strong’s H1234Verb · Translated: split 7, breached 4, divided 3, burst forth 2Full study and all 50 verses →
Hosea 13:8 Like a bear robbed of her cubs I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast tearing them apart.
Micah 1:4 The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
Greek words (New Testament)
- χωρίς chōrísapart from, withouttranslated this way 7 times of its 38 uses · Strong’s G5565Preposition · Translated: without 21, apart 7, without using 2, besides 2Full study and all 35 verses →
John 15:5 I am the vine and you are the branches. The one who remains in Me, and I in him, will bear much fruit. For apart from Me you can do nothing.
Romans 3:21 But now, apart from the law, the righteousness of God has been revealed, as attested by the Law and the Prophets.
- ἀφορίζω aphorízōI rail off, separate, place aparttranslated this way 3 times of its 10 uses · Strong’s G873Verb · Translated: separate 4, Set apart 2, separates 1, exclude 1Full study and all 9 verses →
Acts 13:2 While they were worshiping the Lord and fasting, the Holy Spirit said, “Set apart for Me Barnabas and Saul for the work to which I have called them.”
Romans 1:1 Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle, and set apart for the gospel of God—
- ἀνόμως anómōswithout lawtranslated this way 2 times of its 2 uses · Strong’s G460Adverb · Translated: apart from the law 2Full study and its 1 verse →
Romans 2:12 All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from the law, and all who sin under the law will be judged by the law.
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.