Word study
Isolate
2 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with one of these: isolate, isolated, isolates. 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 “isolate” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- סָגַר sâgarshut, closetranslated this way 9 times of its 90 uses · Strong’s H5462Verb · Translated: shut 23, closed 9, isolate 8, delivered 8Full study and all 87 verses →
Leviticus 13:4 If, however, the spot on his skin is white and does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and the hair in it has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
Leviticus 13:5 On the seventh day the priest is to reexamine him, and if he sees that the infection is unchanged and has not spread on the skin, the priest must isolate him for another seven days.
- פָּרַד pâraddividetranslated this way 1 time of its 26 uses · Strong’s H6504Verb · Translated: separated 3, spread 3, separates 3, divided 2Full study and all 26 verses →
Proverbs 18:1 He who isolates himself pursues selfish desires; he rebels against all sound judgment.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἐκκλείω ekkleíōI shut out, excludetranslated this way 1 time of its 2 uses · Strong’s G1576Verb · Translated: excluded 1, isolate 1Full study and all 2 verses →
Galatians 4:17 Those people are zealous for you, but not in a good way. Instead, they want to isolate you from us, so that you may be zealous for them.
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- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
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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.