בָּדָא bâdâʼ — (figuratively) to invent
Translated in the KJV as devise, feign.
a primitive root; (figuratively) to invent.
bâdâʼ in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1Participle (active) 1
So he offered upon the altar which he had made in Beth–el the fifteenth day of the eighth month, even in the month which he had devised of his own heart; and ordained a feast unto the children of Israel: and he offered upon the altar, and burnt incense.
Then I sent unto him, saying, There are no such things done as thou sayest, but thou feignest them out of thine own heart.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›