יָחֵף
barefoot
‘barefoot’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3182 appears — 5 distinct verses across 3 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.
2 Samuel 1 verse
Isaiah 3 verses
- Isaiah 20:2 וְ/יָחֵֽף conj + Adjective Adjective ms at that time Yahweh spoke by Isaiah the son of Amoz, saying, Go, and loose the sackcloth from off your loins, and put your shoe from off your foot. He did so, walking naked and barefoot.
- Isaiah 20:3 וְ/יָחֵ֑ף conj + Adjective Adjective ms Yahweh said, Like as my servant Isaiah has walked naked and barefoot three years for a sign and a wonder concerning Egypt and concerning Ethiopia;
- Isaiah 20:4 וְ/יָחֵ֑ף conj + Adjective Adjective ms so shall the king of Assyria lead away the captives of Egypt, and the exiles of Ethiopia, young and old, naked and barefoot, and with buttocks uncovered, to the shame of Egypt.
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.
The Hebrew adjective יחף centers on the idea of “barefoot.” It occurs a mere 5 verses across Scripture. The word gravitates to Isaiah (60%), then 2 Samuel and Jeremiah. First canonically at 2 Samuel 15:30, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. 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 H3182 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
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 5 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 5 verses · 100%
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: Barefoot 4×
- American Standard Version: Barefoot 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Barefoot 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Barefoot 4×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3182 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3182 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3182 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears 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 H3182 across 6 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.
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- barefoot
- bareness, being unshod (substantive)
Word origin
adj. barefoot, always abs. יָחֵף Is 20:2 + 4 times;—הלך עָרוֹם וְיָחֵף Is 20:2 (נַעַלְךָ תַחֲלֹץ מֵעַל רַגְלֶ֑ךָ in preceding cl.), v 3; הֹלֵךְ יָחֵף 2 S 15:30; נָהַג יָחֵף Is 20:4; appar. = subst., מִנְעִי רַגְלֵךְ מִיָּחֵף Je 2:25 withhold thy foot from bareness (Syriac ܝܽܘܚܳܦܳܐ discalceatio).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to take off the shoes
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.
יָחֵף I
- v. חָפַף II) rubbed off, bare, esp. bare-footed, foot-sore. Y. Snh. X, 28ᵇ bot (expl. אט I Kings XXI, 27) היה מהלך י׳ he walked bare-footed (in penance); Cant. R. to I, 5.—Yoma 77ᵃ (ref. to II Sam. XV, 30) י׳ ממאי וכ׳ ‘bare’ of what?—Does it not mean bare of sandals?; v. מְטַרְקָא.—Sabb. 114ᵃ (ref. to Is. XX, 3) י׳ במנעלים וכ׳ ‘bare’ means in patched shoes; a. fr.—Pl. יְחֵפִים, יְחֵפִין, יְחֵי׳. Num. R. s. 5; a. fr.—Fem. יְחֵפָה, יְחֵי׳. Ruth. R. to I, 19; a. e.—Pl. יְחֵיפוֹת. Yalk. Ruth 601 (Ruth R. to I, 7 ביַיחַף); a. e. e.g. 1 Kings 21:27
יָחֵף
- Targ. II Sam. XV, 30. Targ. Is. XX, 2, sq.—Pl. יְחֵיפִין. Ib. 4.
יָחֵף II
- (preced. wds.) to be bare.—Hithpa. הִתְיַיחֵף, Nithpa. נִתְיַי׳ to be exposed, to take cold. Lam. R. introd. (R. Joh. 2) כדי שלא יִתְיַיחֲפוּ רגליהם that their feet might not be exposed (that they might not take cold); אע"פ כן נִתְיַיחֲפוּ וכ׳ and yet they did take cold. Ib. to I, 16.
יְחֵף
- , to be rubbed, sore, worn out. Targ. O. Deut. VIII, 4.
- , part. pass. מְיַחַף sore. Targ. Y. ib.
יַחַף
- (preced. wds.)
- 1. barefootedness. Ruth R. to I, 7, v. יָחֵף I. Yalk. Jer. 266, v. יִחוּף.
- 2. footsoreness. Makhsh. III, 8 בשעת הי׳ והדיש in the season of footsores (of animals) or of threshing (when moistening the animal’s foot is welcome to the owner); Var. lect. האף, v. אַף II.
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 4 distinct written forms H3182 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/יָחֵ֑ף | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 20:3 | 2 |
| וְ/יָחֵֽף | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 20:2 | 1 |
| יָחֵ֑ף | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Samuel 15:30 | 1 |
| מִ/יָּחֵ֔ף | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 2:25 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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