Separate

Separate - (Webster's 1828 Dictionary)

SEP'ARATE, v. t. [L. separo.]

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.

Separate me Barnabas and Saul. Acts 8.

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

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

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

Separate thyself, I pray thee, from me. Gen 8.

SEP'ARATE, v. i.

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.

SEP'ARATE, a. [L. separatus.]

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.

Christ was holy, harmless, undefiled and separate from sinners. Heb 7.

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

sep'-a-rat: The translation of a number of Hebrew and Greek words, badhal (Le 20:24, etc.), and aphorizo (Mt 25:32, etc.), being the most common. "To separate" and "to consecrate" were originally not distinguished (e.g. Nu 6:2 margin), and probably the majority of the uses of "separate" in English Versions of the Bible connote "to set apart for God." But precisely the same term that is used in this sense may also denote the exact opposite (e.g. the use of nazar in Eze 14:7 and Zec 7:3).

See HOLINESS; NAZIRITE; SAINTS.