יָדִיד
beloved
‘beloved’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct 5 times (56%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct 2 times (22%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (11%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (11%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 9 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3039 appears — 8 distinct verses across 4 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Deuteronomy 1 verse
Psalms 5 verses
- Psalms 45:1 יְדִידֹֽת n c fp My heart overflows with a noble theme. I recite my verses for the king. My tongue is like the pen of a skillful writer.
- Psalms 60:5 יְדִידֶ֑י/ךָ adj Adjective mp cs + sfx pers 2ms So that your beloved may be delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer us.
- Psalms 84:1 יְּדִיד֥וֹת adj Adjective fp How lovely are your dwellings, Yahweh of Hosts!
- Psalms 108:6 יְדִידֶ֑י/ךָ adj Adjective mp cs + sfx pers 2ms That your beloved may be delivered, Save with your right hand, and answer us.
- Psalms 127:2 לִֽ/ידִיד֣/וֹ prep + Adjective Adjective ms cs + sfx pers 3ms It is vain for you to rise up early, To stay up late, Eating the bread of toil; For he gives sleep to his loved ones.
Isaiah 1 verse
Jeremiah 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
ידיד (yᵉdîyd) is a Hebrew word most often rendered “beloved.” It clusters heavily in Psalms, which alone accounts for 63% of its uses. It turns up in 8 verses across 4 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Deuteronomy 33:12. Not a single-sense word: explore its full sense range. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3039 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 4 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 4 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Psalms 5 verses 63%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 13%
- Isaiah 1 verse 13%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 63%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 25%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 13%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Beloved 4×, Wellbeloved 2×
- American Standard Version: Beloved 5×, Wellbeloved 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Beloved 5×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beloved 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3039 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3039 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3039 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3039 across 8 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 3 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. my beloved, used by proph. of י׳ under fig. of husbandman Is 5:1(×2); so my (thy, his) beloved Je 11:15 ψ 60:7 = 108:7, 127:2; beloved, of Benj. as beloved by י׳ Dt 33:12. e.g. Isaiah 5:1
- 2. lovely, מַה־יְּדִידוֹת מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶיךָ ψ 84:2 how lovely are thy habitations! e.g. Psalms 84:2
- 3. fpl. as abstr. subst. שִׁיר יְדִידֹת ψ 45:1 = a song of love. e.g. Psalms 45:1
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
adj. (poet.) beloved (NH id., Aramaic ܝܰܕܺܝܕܳܐ )—cstr. יְדִיד Dt 33:12; sf. לִידִידִי Is 5:1(×2) Je 11:15; לִידִידוֹ ψ 127:2; pl. sf. יְדִידֶיךָ 60:7; 108:7; f. יְדִידֹת 45:1; יְדִידוֹת 84:2;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from דוד (dôwd) (H1730) — beloved.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יָדִיד
- [pointed out,] chosen, beloved; chosen spot. Men. 53ᵃ יבא י׳ בן י׳ ויבנה י׳ … ויתכפרו בו ידידים the beloved (Solomon), son of the beloved (Abraham), shall rise and build a chosen structure (Temple) to the beloved (the Lord) in the lot of the beloved (Benjamin), that in it the chosen ones (Israel) be atoned for. Y. Ber. IX, 14ᵃ bot.; Sabb. 137ᵇ (benediction on circumcision) אשר קידש י׳ מבטן who sanctified the chosen one (Abraham, Is. XLI, 8; others: Isaac, with ref. to Gen. XXII, 2) from the womb.—Pl. יְדִידִים, v. supra. e.g. Isaiah 41:8
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 8 distinct written forms H3039 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יְדִידֶ֑י/ךָ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 60:5 | 2 |
| יְדִ֣יד | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Deuteronomy 33:12 | 1 |
| יְדִידֹֽת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 45:1 | 1 |
| יְּדִיד֥וֹת | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Psalms 84:1 | 1 |
| לִֽ/ידִיד֣/וֹ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Psalms 127:2 | 1 |
| לִֽ/ידִידִ֔/י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 5:1 | 1 |
| לִֽ/ידִידִ֖/י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 5:1 | 1 |
| לִֽ/ידִידִ֞/י | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Jeremiah 11:15 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3039, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Derived from this word
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- דוד Dâvid H1732 David
- דודו Dôwdôw H1734 Dodo
- דודוהו Dôwdâvâhûw H1735 Dodavah
- ידידה Yᵉdîydâh H3040 Jedidah
- ידידיה Yᵉdîydᵉyâh H3041 Jedidiah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 5 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
