Hebrew

Adverb

לְבַד • ‎(l'vád)

1. Alone, apart, not together, on one's own.
   • Judges 7:5:

     […] כֹּל אֲשֶׁר־יָלֹק בִּלְשׁוֹנוֹ מִן־הַמַּיִם כַּאֲשֶׁר יָלֹק הַכֶּלֶב תַּצִּיג אוֹתוֹ לְבָד […]

     […] kol ashér-yalók bil'shonó min-hamáyim ka'ashér yalók hakélev tatzíg otó l'vád […]

     […] Every one that lappeth of the water with his tongue, as a dog lappeth, him shalt thou set by himself; […] ^[1]

   • Zechariah 12:12:

     וְסָפְדָה הָאָרֶץ מִשְׁפָּחוֹת מִשְׁפָּחוֹת לְבָד מִשְׁפַּחַת בֵּית־דָּוִיד לְבָד וּנְשֵׁיהֶם לְבָד מִשְׁפַּחַת בֵּית־נָתָן לְבָד וּנְשֵׁיהֶם לְבָד׃

     v'safdá ha'áretz mishpakhót mishpakhót l'vád mishpákhat beit-davíd l'vád un'sheihém l'vád mishpákhat beit-natán l'vád un'sheihém l'vád:

     And the land shall mourn, every family apart; the family of the house of David apart, and their wives apart; the family of the house of Nathan apart, and their wives apart; […] ^[1]

   • Genesis 43:32:

     וַיָּשִׂימוּ [לֶחֶם] לוֹ לְבַדּוֹ וְלָהֶם לְבַדָּם וְלַמִּצְרִים הָאֹכְלִים אִתּוֹ לְבַדָּם […]

     vayasímu [lékhem] lo l'vadó v'lahém l'vadám v'lamitzrím ha'okhlím itó l'vadám […]

     And they set on [bread] for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: […] ^[1]

2. (with following pronoun) Alone, sole, only.
   • Genesis 2:18:

     […] לֹא־טוֹב הֱיוֹת הָאָדָם לְבַדּוֹ אֶעֱשֶׂהּ־לּוֹ עֵזֶר כְּנֶגְדּוֹ׃

     […] lo-tóv heyót ha'adám l'vadó e'eséh-lo ézer k'negdó:

     […] It is not good that the man should be alone; I will make him an help meet for him.^[1]

   • Job 1:15:

     […] וָאִמָּלְטָה רַק־אֲנִי לְבַדִּי לְהַגִּיד לָךְ׃

     […] va'imlatá rak-aní l'vadí l'hagíd lakh:

     […] and I only am escaped alone to tell thee.^[1]

   • 1902, Hayyim Nahman Bialik, "לְבַדִּי" ("l'vadí", “‘Alone’”):

     […] \ "כֻּלָּם נָשָׂא הָרוּחַ, כֻּלָּם פָּרְחוּ לָהֶם, \ וָאִוָּתֵר לְבַדִּי, לְבַדִּי..."

     […] / "kulám nasá harúakh, kulám parkhú lahém, / va'ivatér l'vadí, l'vadí ..."

     […] / “all gone with the wind, all flown away / and I remain alone, alone . . .”^[2]

Etymology 2

כובע עשוי לבד.

Cognate with Arabic لبد ‎(libd, “felt”).

Noun

לֶבֶד • ‎(léved) m ‎(plural indefinite לְבָדִים, singular construct לֶבֶד־, plural construct לִבְדֵי־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. Felt: a certain material made from wool, or from wool and fur.
   • לבד on the Hebrew Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^he

References

• “לבד” in Abraham Even-Shoshan (אַבְרָהָם אֶבֶן־שֹׁשָן) et al., הַמִּלּוֹן הֶחָדָשׁ ‎(ha-milón he-khadásh, “The New Dictionary”), Kiryat-Sefer Ltd. (קִרְיַת־סֵפֶר בְּע״ם)‎ (1984), ISBN 965-17-0084-X, volume 2 of 3 (ל to צ), ISBN 965-17-0096-3, page 581.
• Notes:

1. 1 2 3 4 5 (1611) Authorized King James translation.
2. ↑ Translation from: Atar Hadari (editor and translator), Songs from Bialik: Selected Poems of Hayim Nahman Bialik, Syracuse University Press (2000), ISBN 978-0-8156-2814-9, page 23.

Anagrams

• ב־ד־ל, בדל