Bible Names

Bedad: meaning of the name

Bedad means “alone; solitary.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Bedad in Hebrew and Greek

בְּדַד H911

Bᵉdad (bed-ad') — Bedad, an Edomite

from H909 (בָּדַד); separation;

Who named Bedad in the Bible

Bedad in Scripture

“Bedad” appears in 2 verses of the King James Version.

  • Genesis 36:35

    And Husham died, and Hadad the son of Bedad, who smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.

  • 1 Chronicles 1:46

    And when Husham was dead, Hadad the son of Bedad, which smote Midian in the field of Moab, reigned in his stead: and the name of his city was Avith.