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Separate [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Divided from the rest; being parted from another; disjoined; disconnected; used of things that have been united or connected .

2. Unconnected; not united; distinct; used of things that have not been connected .

3. Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. Hebrews 7:26 .

4. Disunited from the body; as a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

Separate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To part; to be disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from each other. The parties separated , and each retired.

2. To cleave; to open; as, the parts of a substance separate by drying or freezing.

Separate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To disunite; to divide; to sever; to part, in almost any manner, either things naturally or casually joined. The parts of a solid substance may be separated by breaking, cutting or splitting, or by fusion, decomposition or natural dissolution. A compound body may be separated into its constituent parts. Friends may be separated by necessity, and must be separated by death. The prism separates the several kinds of colored rays. A riddle separates the chaff from the grain.

2. To set apart from a number for a particular service.

3. Separate me Barnabas and Saul. Acts 8:1 .

4. To dilconnect; as, to separate man and wife by divorce.

5. To make space between. The Atlantic separates Europe from America. A narrow strait separates Europe from Africa.

6. To separate one's self , to withdraw; to depart.

7. Separate thyself , I pray thee, from me. Genesis 8:1 .

Separate [Participial adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Divided from another or others; disjoined; disconnected; separated; -- said of things once connected.

2. Unconnected; not united or associated; distinct; -- said of things that have not been connected.

3. Disunited from the body; disembodied; as, a separate spirit; the separate state of souls.

Separate [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To part; to become disunited; to be disconnected; to withdraw from one another; as, the family separated.

Separate [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To disunite; to divide; to disconnect; to sever; to part in any manner.

2. To come between; to keep apart by occupying the space between; to lie between; as, the Mediterranean Sea separates Europe and Africa.

3. To set apart; to select from among others, as for a special use or service.

Separated [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Divided; parted; disunited; disconnected.

Separated [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Separately [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

In a separate or unconnected state; apart; distinctly; singly. The opinions of the council were separately taken.

Separateness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

The state of being separate.

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Genesis 1:4

And God saw the light, that it was good: and God divided the light from the darkness.

And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

Genesis 1:6

And God said, Let there be a firmament in the midst of the waters, and let it divide the waters from the waters.

And God said, “Let there be an expanse between the waters, to separate the waters from the waters.”

Genesis 1:7

And God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament: and it was so.

So God made the expanse and separated the waters beneath it from the waters above. And it was so.

Genesis 1:18

And to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and God saw that it was good.

to preside over the day and the night, and to separate the light from the darkness. And God saw that it was good.

Genesis 10:5

By these were the isles of the Gentiles divided in their lands; every one after his tongue, after their families, in their nations.

From these, the maritime peoples separated into their territories, according to their languages, by clans within their nations.

Genesis 13:9

Is not the whole land before thee? separate thyself, I pray thee, from me: if thou wilt take the left hand, then I will go to the right; or if thou depart to the right hand, then I will go to the left.

Is not the whole land before you? Now separate yourself from me. If you go to the left, I will go to the right; if you go to the right, I will go to the left.”

Genesis 13:11

Then Lot chose him all the plain of Jordan; and Lot journeyed east: and they separated themselves the one from the other.

So Lot chose the whole plain of the Jordan for himself and set out toward the east. And Abram and Lot parted company.

Genesis 13:14

And the LORD said unto Abram, after that Lot was separated from him, Lift up now thine eyes, and look from the place where thou art northward, and southward, and eastward, and westward:

After Lot had departed, the LORD said to Abram, “Now lift up your eyes from the place where you are, and look to the north and south and east and west,

Genesis 21:28

And Abraham set seven ewe lambs of the flock by themselves.

Abraham separated seven ewe lambs from the flock,

Genesis 25:23

And the LORD said unto her, Two nations are in thy womb, and two manner of people shall be separated from thy bowels; and the one people shall be stronger than the other people; and the elder shall serve the younger.

and He declared to her: “Two nations are in your womb, and two peoples from within you will be separated; one people will be stronger than the other, and the older will serve the younger.”

Genesis 30:40

And Jacob did separate the lambs, and set the faces of the flocks toward the ringstraked, and all the brown in the flock of Laban; and he put his own flocks by themselves, and put them not unto Laban’s cattle.

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.

Genesis 32:16

And he delivered them into the hand of his servants, every drove by themselves; and said unto his servants, Pass over before me, and put a space betwixt drove and drove.

He entrusted them to his servants in separate herds and told them, “Go on ahead of me, and keep some distance between the herds.”

Genesis 43:32

And they set on for him by himself, and for them by themselves, and for the Egyptians, which did eat with him, by themselves: because the Egyptians might not eat bread with the Hebrews; for that is an abomination unto the Egyptians.

They separately served Joseph, his brothers, and the Egyptians. They ate separately because the Egyptians would not eat with the Hebrews, since that was detestable to them.

Genesis 49:26

The blessings of thy father have prevailed above the blessings of my progenitors unto the utmost bound of the everlasting hills: they shall be on the head of Joseph, and on the crown of the head of him that was separate from his brethren.

The blessings of your father have surpassed the blessings of the ancient mountains and the bounty of the everlasting hills. May they rest on the head of Joseph, on the brow of the prince of his brothers.

Exodus 26:33

And thou shalt hang up the vail under the taches, that thou mayest bring in thither within the vail the ark of the testimony: and the vail shall divide unto you between the holy place and the most holy.

And hang the veil from the clasps and place the ark of the Testimony behind the veil. So the veil will separate the Holy Place from the Most Holy Place.

Exodus 33:16

For wherein shall it be known here that I and thy people have found grace in thy sight? is it not in that thou goest with us? so shall we be separated, I and thy people, from all the people that are upon the face of the earth.

For how then can it be known that Your people and I have found favor in Your sight, unless You go with us? How else will we be distinguished from all the other people on the face of the earth?”

Leviticus 15:31

Thus shall ye separate the children of Israel from their uncleanness; that they die not in their uncleanness, when they defile my tabernacle that is among them.

You must keep the children of Israel separate from their uncleanness, so that they do not die by defiling My tabernacle, which is among them.

Leviticus 20:24

But I have said unto you, Ye shall inherit their land, and I will give it unto you to possess it, a land that floweth with milk and honey: I am the LORD your God, which have separated you from other people.

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.

Leviticus 20:25

Ye shall therefore put difference between clean beasts and unclean, and between unclean fowls and clean: and ye shall not make your souls abominable by beast, or by fowl, or by any manner of living thing that creepeth on the ground, which I have separated from you as unclean.

You are therefore to distinguish between clean and unclean animals and birds. Do not become contaminated by any animal or bird, or by anything that crawls on the ground; I have set these apart as unclean for you.

Leviticus 22:2

Speak unto Aaron and to his sons, that they separate themselves from the holy things of the children of Israel, and that they profane not my holy name in those things which they hallow unto me: I am the LORD.

“Tell Aaron and his sons to treat with respect the sacred offerings that the Israelites have consecrated to Me, so that they do not profane My holy name. I am the LORD.