יָלַד
to bear
also: bring forth, beget, gender, travail 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
- 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.
Stem
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘beget’
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘bear’
- Pual
- The passive counterpart of the Piel.
- Niphal
- Usually the simple passive or reflexive of the Qal (“he was written”).
- Piel
- An intensive or resultative active stem.
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
- Hithpael
- The reflexive or reciprocal stem (the subject acts on itself).
- Qal Passive
- An archaic passive of the Qal, preserved in a few forms.
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Participle Passive
- A verbal adjective expressing action received (“written”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
1 verse where H3205 appears in the Niphal stem in the Book of Numbers. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Numbers
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.
“to bear” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb ילד (yâlad). Translators differ — “begat” in the King James Version, then “was the father of” (Berean Standard Bible) and “fathered” (unfoldingWord Literal Text), as the renderings breakdown shows. With 403 verses in 28 books, it is a common word in the Hebrew Bible. It concentrates in Genesis, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. Read the stem: it spans 7 stems, including Qal and Niphal. See the sense tree, 403-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3205 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 →
- 403
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 403 distinct verses.
- 28 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 28 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #101
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 403 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 133 verses 33%
- 1 Chronicles 83 verses 21%
- Isaiah 22 verses 5%
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 403 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 165 verses · 41%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 140 verses · 35%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 98 verses · 24%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Begat 156×, Bare 64×, She bare 29×
- American Standard Version†: Begat 156×, Bare 54×, She bare 28×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Was the father of 104×, Bore 28×, Gave birth to 28×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Fathered 114×, Bore 60×, He fathered 58×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3205 across 497† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 86 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3205 across 494† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 109 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 H3205 across 483† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 98 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 13 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3205 across 555† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 97 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
17 senses and sub-senses in the full BDB
Hebrew verbs can shift meaning by stem (binyan): Qal is the basic action, Niphal is often passive or reflexive, Piel often intensifies or makes it factitive, and Hiphil is typically causative. The senses below are grouped under the stem BDB assigns to each. This entry also uses Pual (the passive of Piel), Hophal (the passive of Hiphil), and Hithpael (reflexive or reciprocal).
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 17 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.
Qal
- Pf. יָלַד Gn 4:18(×3) + 16 times; יָלָ֑ד Je 17:11; וְיָלַד consec. ψ 7:15; sf. יְלָֽדְךָ Dt 32:18; 2 fs. sf. ילדתני Je 2:27 Kt; Qr יְלִדְתָּנוּ Köi. 410 Ges§ 69 s); 1 s. sf. יְלִדְתִּ֫יךָ ψ 2:7; יְלִדְתִּ֫יהוּ Nu 11:12, etc.; Impf. יֵלֶד(יֹום) Pr 27:1; 3 fs. תֵּלֵד Gn 17:17 + 6 times; וַתֵּ֫לֶד 4:1 + 61 times; 2 fs. תֵּלְדִי 3:16; אֵלֵד 18:13; וָאֵלֵד 1 K 3:17; יֵֽלְדוּ Is 65:23; 3 fpl. תֵּלַדְנָה Je 29:6; וַתֵּלַדְנָה Ez 23:4; וַתֵּלַדְןָ Gn 30:39, etc.; Inf. abs. יָלֹד Jb 15:35; cstr. לֵדָה Ho 9:11 + 3 times; לֶ֫דֶת Gn 4:2 Zp 2:2 (v. טֶרֶם) + 9 times; לָלַת 1 S 4:19 (Köi, 402, v. Dr); sf. לִדְתִּי 1 K 3:18, etc.; Pt. act. יֹלֵר Pr 17:21 Je 30:6, etc.; f. יוֹלֵדָה Ho 13:13 + 12 times; יֹלֶ֫דֶת Gn 17:19 + 4 times; יֹלַדְתְּ 16:11 + 2 times (Köi. 404 f.; perhaps יֹלֶדֶת intended by Kt, cf. Sta§ 213 b); sf. Pr 23:25; יוֹלַדְתּוֹ Pr 17:25, etc.; pl. יֹלְדוֹת Je 16:3; Pt. pass. יָלוּד 1 K 3:26, 27; cstr. יְלוּד Jb 14:1 + 2 times; pl. יְלוּדִים 1 Ch 14:4;— e.g. Genesis 4:18
- 1. bear, bring forth:
- a. (to mother a child,) so commonly, c. 208 times; sq. acc. Gn 3:16; 4:1 & constantly; acc. om. 6:4; 16:1 = be delivered of a child, 1 K 3:17, 18 2 K 19:3 = Is 37:3 (in proverb c. neg., i.e. human power exhausted); of animals Gn 30:39; 31:8(×2) Je 14:5; 17:11 (bird laying eggs, or hatching out young), Ez 31:6 Jb 39:1, 2; but also of whole process of labour (cf. חול) וַתְּקַשׁ בְּלִדְתָּהּ Gn 35:16 cf. v 17, 38:27, 28, cf. 1 S 14:19 Je 31:8 Mi 5:2 (of a man, as preposterous, Je 30:6, cf. Moses as mother of Israel Nu 11:12). e.g. Genesis 3:16
- b. hence in simile of distress Mi 4:9, 10 Is 13:8; 21:3; 42:14 Je 6:24; 13:21; 22:23; 30:6; 49:24; 50:43 ψ 48:7, cf. Ho 13:13; ילד על־ברכים (StaZAW 1886, 143 ff.) Gn 30:3; 50:23 (cf. Jb 3:12). e.g. Micah 4:9
- c. fig. of wicked וְהָרָה עָמָל וְיָלַד שָׁ֑קֶר ψ 7:15 cf. Jb 15:35 also Is 33:11; of Israelites, bringing forth wind (of vain efforts for deliverance) 26:18; כְּפֹר שָׁמַיִם מִי יְלָדוֹ Jb 38:29; of Tyre as mother of her inhabitants Is 23:4; of Jerus. Is 51:18; 54:1; 66:7, 8 Ez 16:20, Isr. bearing disloyal children Ho 5:7; Jerus. and Sam., as Oholibah and Oholah Ez 23:37; of Babylon Je 50:12; of a day, as producing events לֹא־תֵדַע מַה יֵּ֫לֶד יוֹם Pr 27:1; perhaps of God (fig. of rock צוּר), as mother of Isr. bringing forth with labour Dt 32:18 yet v. 2. e.g. Psalms 7:15
- 2. less often beget:
- a. lit., c. 22 times; always c. acc.; in Hex a mark of J; Gn 4:18(×3); 10:8, 13, 15, 24(×2), 26 = 1 Ch 1:10, 11, 13, 18(×2), 20, Gn 22:23; 25:3 (Dt 32:18 & Nu 11:12 E are dub.; P uses Hiph.), elsewhere Pr 17:21; 23:22, 24 Dn 11:6. e.g. Genesis 4:18
- b. beget, fig. ψ 2:7 of י׳’s formally installing king into theocratic rights. e.g. Psalms 2:7
- 3. Zc 13:3(×2), of both parents (lit.); Pt. pass. 3 times = child 1 K 3:26, 27 where mother is named, 1 Ch 14:4 where father named. e.g. Zechariah 13:3
Niphal
- Pf. נוֹלַד 1 Ch 2:3 + 6 times + הנּוֹלַד־ Gn 21:3 according to points, but read Pt. (v. Di); נוּ֯לְּדוּ 3:5; 20:8 (cf. Ol§ 263 b Ges§ 69, 5t); Impf. יִוָּלֵד Gn 17:17 + 4 times; יִוָּ֑לֶד Is 66:8; וַיִּוָּלֵד Gn 4:18 + 2 times, etc.; Inf. הִוָּ֑לֶד Gn 21:5; הִוָּֽלְדוֹ Ec 7:1; הִוָּֽלְדָהּ Ho 2:5; Pt. נוֹלָד 1 K 13:2 + 3 times (Gn 21:3 v. supr.); נוֹלָדִים 48:5 1 Ch 7:21;—be born: of human beings, sq. לְ (born to such and such a man), Gn 4:18; 10:1; 17:17; 21:3, 5; 46:20, 48:5 Nu 26:60 Dt 23:9 2 S 3:2 (Qr), 5:13; 14:27 1 Ch 2:3, 9; 3:1, 4, 5; 20:6, 8; 22:9; 26:6 Jb 1:2 cf. 1 K 13:2; without לְ, Jb 3:3; 38:21 ψ 78:6 1 Ch 7:21 Ec 7:1 (טוֹב שֵׁם מִשֶּׁמֶן טוֹב וְיוֹם הַמָּוֶת מִיּוֹם הִוָּֽלְֽדוֹ׃); metaph. of Israel (under fig. of unfaithful wife) Ho 2:5; of nation, גּוֹי, Is 66:8, people, עַם, ψ 22:32; of animals Lv 22:27 Dt 15:19; Pt. כָּל־נָשִׁים וְהַנּוֹלָד מֵהֶם Ezr 10:3; c. pred. or appos. on which emph. rests, נ׳ רָ֑שׁ Ec 4:14 he was born poor; אֹהֵב הָרֵ֑ע וְאָח לְצָרָה יִוָּלֵד Pr 17:17; עַיִר פרא אדם יִוָּלֵד Jb 11:12; 15:7. e.g. 1 Chronicles 2:3
Piel
- Inf. יַלֶּדְכֶן Ex 1:16; Pt. abs. מְיַלֶּדֶת Gn 35:17 + 2 times; pl. abs. מְיַלְּדוֹת Ex 1:15 + 5 times in Ex 1;—cause (or help) to bring forth, viz., assist or tend as midwife Ex 1:16 sq. acc.; elsewhere only Pt. f. as subst. = midwife; Gn 35:17 (E), 38:28 (J), Ex 1:15, 17, 18, 19(×2), 20, 21 (E). e.g. Exodus 1:16
Pual
- Pf. יֻלַּד Gn 4:26 + 13 times; יוּלַּד Ju 18:29; יֻלָּד֙ Gn 41:50; יוּלָּ֑ד Jb 5:7; יֻלְּדוּ Gn 6:1 + 4 times + 2 S 3:2 Kt (Qr וַיִּוָּֽלְדוּ); יֻלָּ֑דוּ ψ 90:2, etc.; Pt. (? cf. Köi. 433; Ges§ 52e, s) הַיּוּלָּד Ju 13:8 (Böii.p. 244 pass. Qal); i.q. Niph. be born, sq. לְ of father Gn 4:26; 6:1; 10:21, 25; 24:15 (all J), 41:50 (E), 35:26; 36:5; 46:22, 27 (all P), Ju 18:29; 2 S 3:2, 5; 21:20, 22; 1 Ch 1:19; Je 20:15; sq. לְ before grandmother’s name Ru 4:17 cf. לָ֫נוּ Is 9:5; sq. לְ of purpose, destiny, אדם לעמל יוּלָּ֑ד Jb 5:7; יֻלְּדוּ עַל־בִּרְכֵי יוֹסֵף Gn 50:23 (E; Sam. בִּימֵי יו׳, cit. Di) denoting recognition of children as his; no prep. Je 20:14; 22:26, cf. Ju 13:8 (v. supr.); fig. of foreigners incorporated in spiritual Zion ψ 87:4, 5, 6; of production of mountains ψ 90:2. e.g. Genesis 4:26
Hiphil
- Pf. הוֹלִיד Gn 11:27; +; הוֹלִד Nu 26:58; הֹלִיד 1 Ch 2:36 +; sf. וְהוֹלִידָהּ consec. Is 55:10; הוֹלַדְ֫תָּ Gn 48:6, etc.; Impf. יוֹלִיד Gn 17:20 Ec 6:3; וַיּ֫וֹלֶד Gn 5:3 +; 2 ms. תּוֹלִיד Dt 4:25 + 4 times; אוֹלִיד Is 66:9; Imv. הוֹלִי֫דוּ Je 29:6; Inf. abs. הוֹלֵיד Is 59:4; cstr. sf. הוֹלִידוֹ Gn 5:4 + 16 times; Pt. מוֹלִיד Is 66:9; מוֹלִדִים Je 16:3;— e.g. Genesis 11:27
- 1. beget (a father a child) Gn 5:3, 4(×2) + 56 times in Gn., Lv 25:45 Nu 26:29, 58 (all these P, v. sub Qal) + Dt 4:25; 28:41 (v. Di), 1 Ch 2:10(×2), 11(×2) + 84 times Chr.; Ru 4:18 + 8 times, Ju 11:1; 2 K 20:18 = Is 39:7, Je 29:6; Ez 18:10, 14; 47:22; Ec 5:13; 6:3, cf. Is 45:10; also Je 16:3 אֲבוֹתָם הַמּוֹלִדִים אוֹתָם, cf. freq. Assyrian abu bânûa, e.g. VR 1:8; fig. of producing dewdrops Jb 38:28; of causing the earth to bear grain Is 55:10; causing Zion to bring forth 66:9. e.g. Genesis 5:3
- 2. bear, only fig. 59:4 (‖ הָרוֹ), of wicked, bringing forth iniquity (this favoured by context; others, beget). e.g. Isaiah 59:4
Hophal
- Inf. הֻלֶּדֶת Gn 40:20; Ez 16:5; הוּלֶּ֫דֶת Ez 16:4 (Co as foregoing); only יוֹם ה׳ אֶת־ Gn 40:20 Ez 16:4, 5 day of one’s being born = birthday. e.g. Genesis 40:20
Hithpael
- Impf. וַיִּתְיַלְּדוּ Nu 1:18 denom. from תולדת declared their pedigree (v. Di). e.g. Numbers 1:18
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
vb. bear, bring forth, beget (NH id.; Aramaic יְלִיד, יְלֵיד, ܝܺܠܶܕ; Arabic وَلَدَ bear, bring forth, so Ethiopic ወለደ Assyrian alâdu, COTGloss)—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive root
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.
יָלַד
- v. בָּלַט) to bear, bring forth; to beget, v. יוֹלֵד. Yeb. VII, 5 יָלְדָה הימנו בן she had a son from him. Ib. י׳ תאכל וכ׳ after she has given birth, she may eat (T’rumah). Snh. 52ᵃ ארור שזו י׳ cursed he who begot this woman. Yalk. Sam. 146 והיא ילדה מהם and she was with child from them (the male demons); והיו יוֹלְדוֹת ממנו and they (the female demons) were with child from him (Adam); Gen. R. s. 20 מולידות (corr. acc., or מוּלָדוֹת Hof.). Sot. 11ᵇ בשעה שכורעת לֵילֵד when she kneels down to give birth; a. v. fr.—Part. pass. יָלוּד born; יְלוּד אשה born of woman, human being. Sabb. 88ᵇ; a. fr.—V. יוֹלֵד, יוֹלֵדָה, יוֹלֶדֶת.
- to be born, to originate. Bets. I, 1 ביצה שנוֹלְדָה וכ׳ an egg which was laid on a Holy Day. Bekh. II, 3 נ׳ להם מום וכ׳ a permanent blemish appeared on them. Ib. V, 3 כשיִוָּלֵד לו וכ׳ when another blemish shall have appeared. Tosef. Keth. VII, 10 [read:] שדרכן לִיוָּלֵד which ordinarily appear; Y. ib. VII, end, 31ᵈ להִיוָּלֵד. Sabb. 137ᵃ יום הִוָּלְדוֹ his day of birth; a. v. fr.—Pesik. R. s. 15 כל חדש שלא נ׳, v. מוֹלָד.—Part. נוֹלָד forthcoming, future event, result. Ab. II, 9 הרואה את הנ׳ he who considers what may result (from his actions); Tam. 32ᵃ. Ned. III, 9 הנודר מן היִלּוֹדִים מותר בנוֹלָדִים if one foreswears enjoyment of the yillodim (those born), he is permitted to derive benefits from those born after his vow (v. Ib. ib. 30ᵇ).—Esp. a) (in festive ritual) nolad, an object which became available for use on a Holy Day. Bets. 2ᵃ אית ליה נ׳ holds to the opinion that nolad is forbidden to be used on the Holy Day, v. מוּקְצֶה. Sabb. 29ᵃ מעיקרא כלי … והוה ליה נ׳ ואסור before it was broken, it was a vessel (and not designated for fuel), and now it is a broken vessel and, therefore, is a nolad and must not be used as fuel. Erub. 46ᵃ top כ"ש דהוו להו נ׳ וכ׳ so much the more they must be considered as nolad &c.; a. fr.—b) (in votive law) nolad, a novel incident which changes the aspects of a vow and eventually nullifies it. Ned. IX, 2 פותחין בנ׳ the court in trying to absolve him may open the questions by pointing out a circumstance since occurred. Ib. 3 יש … שהן כנ׳ ואינן כנ׳ there are incidents which are and yet are not like nolad, i.e. incidents which may have been anticipated by the vowing person; a. fr.
- 1. to beget. Tosef. Yeb. X, 4 מפני שמוֹלִיד because he is capable of begetting children. Cant. R. beg. את מוצא צדיק מוליד וכ׳ you will find cases of a righteous man having a righteous son &c. Ex. R. s. 1 ולריק ישראל מוֹלִידִים shall Israelites beget in vain?; a. v. fr.—[Gen. R. s. 20 מולידות, v. supra. Keth. 72ᵇ מולידיו, v. יוֹלֵד.]
- 2. to bear living brood, opp. to laying eggs. Bekh. 7ᵇ, v. יָנַק.
- 1. to assist in birth, to deliver. Sabb. XVIII, 3 מְיַלְּדִין את האשה וכ׳ you may deliver a woman on the Sabbath; ib. 129ᵇ מְיַילְּדִים את החיה Ms. M. (ed. מיי׳ את הוולד you may take the child). Ab. Zar. II, 1 (26ᵃ) לא תְיַלֵּד וכ׳ must not deliver a gentile woman; a. fr.
- 2. to rear. Ib. מפני שמְיַלֶּדֶת וכ׳ because she rears a child for idolatry; a. e.
יְלֵד
- , to bear; to beget. Targ. Gen. IV, 1. Ib. 2 למֵילַד. Targ. Jer. XXXI, 7 יָלְדָן women giving birth (h. text יֹלֶדֶת). Targ. Prov. XXIII, 22 יַלְדָּךְ who begot thee. Targ. Gen. XVII, 19 תְּלִיד; usu. תֵּילַד, תֵּלַד. Targ. Ps. XXII, 32 למֵילַד to create; a. v. fr.—B. Bath. 91ᵃ (prov.) בחייך דיַלְדַּת שיתין למה לך דיַלְדַּת Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) by thy life, the sixty (weaklings) thou begottest, what didst thou beget them for? איכפיל ואוֹלִיד וכ׳ (v. infra) marry again and beget one as strong as sixty; Yalk. Jud. 66. Macc. 17ᵇ דִּילִידָא אימיה כר"ש תֵּילוֹד whose mother soever is with child may she bear a son like R. S.; Yalk. Deut. כל דיַלְדָּה אימה כר"ש תְּלִיד; a. v. fr.
- 1. to beget, produce. Targ. Gen. IV, 18; a. fr.—Yeb. 76ᵃ בר אוֹלוּדֵי capable of begetting; ib. בני אולודי. Erub. 104ᵃ is it not because דקמוֹלִיד קלא וכל אולודי וכ׳ he produces a sound, and every production of sound is forbidden (on the Sabbath)?; a. fr.
- 2. as preced. Pi. Targ. Ex. I, 16.—Sot. 11ᵇ לאוֹלוּדָהּ to deliver her.
- 1. to act as midwife. Y. Keth. V, 30ᵃ bot. [read:] דמְיַלְּדָא, v. חֲכַם.
- 2. to give birth. Targ. Ps. CXLIV, 13.
- 1. to be born, to grow, to come forth. Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 6. Targ. Gen. IV, 26; a. fr.—Sabb. 136ᵃ א׳ ליה וכ׳ a child was born to him. Bets. 2ᵇ כל ביצה דמִתְיַילְּדָא האידנא וכ׳ (some ed. דמִתְיְילִידָא) an egg laid to-day was fully developed yesterday. Ib. הנך דמִתְיְלִידָן וכ׳ those laid on the same day. Ḥull. 9ᵃ אִתְיְלִידָא בה ריעותא (not אתיליד) an accident occurred to it which made the case suspicious. Ned. 30ᵇ (ref. to נולדים, Mish. ib. III, 9, v. preced.) למימרא … דמִתְיַילְּדָן משמע does this mean to say that noladim means ‘things which will be forthcoming’?; אלא מעתה … ה"נ דמִתְיַילְּדִין הוא (v. marginal note) if this be so, does hannoladim in Gen. XLVIII, 5 also mean ‘those to be born’? ואלא מאי דִיְּילִידוּ משמע (= דְּאִיְּילִידוּ Ithpe. contr.) but what else? Does it (always) mean ‘those that have been born’? e.g. Genesis 48:5
- 2. to multiply, grow populous. Targ. O. Ex. I, 7 אִתְיַלָּדוּ ed. Berl. (Y. אִתְיְלִי׳). Targ. Gen. VIII, 17. Ib. IX, 7; a. e.
יֶלֶד
- preced.) child, young man. Nidd. 60ᵇ י׳ וזקן וכ׳ a young man and an old man travelling. Ex. R. s. 1; Sot. 12ᵇ הוא י׳ וקולו כנער he (Moses) was an infant, but his voice was that of a lad.—Y. Meg. III, 74ᵃ bot., v. אֶבְדּוֹקוֹס; a. fr.—Pl. יְלָדִים. Ex. R. l. c. קיימו את (החיו) הו׳ they spared the lives of the new-born. Kidd. 76ᵇ, a. e. ד׳ מאות י׳ וכ׳ David had four hundred young men in his suite; a. fr.—Fem. יַלְדָּה girl, young woman. B. Kam. 60ᵇ אחת י׳ ואחת זקינה one wife was young, the other old. Yeb. 101ᵇ; a. fr.—Pl. יְלָדוֹת. Sabb. 32ᵃ ר"א … מתות י׳ R. El. reports, ‘for three sins women die young’ (in place of יוֹלְדוֹת, v. יוֹלֶדֶת); Y. ib. II, 5ᵇ top.—Trnsf. יַלְּדָּה a young plant. Men. 69ᵇ; Sot. 43ᵇ, a. e. י׳ שסבכה בזקנה a young shoot (subject to the law of Orlah, v. עָרְלָה) which was grafted on an old tree. Ib. י׳ בי׳ a young shoot grafted on a young tree.
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Forms in the corpus
The 241 distinct written forms H3205 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 181 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3205, 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.
Derived from this word
- ילד yeled H3206 child
- ילוד yillôwd H3209 born
- יליד yâlîyd H3211 born
- מולדת môwledeth H4138 offspring
- תולדה tôwlᵉdâh H8435 generations
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 3 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 398 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 403 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
- Genesis 3:16
- Exodus 1:15
- Leviticus 12:2
- Numbers 1:18
- Deuteronomy 4:25
- Judges 8:31
- Ruth 1:12
- 1 Samuel 1:20
- 2 Samuel 3:2
- 1 Kings 1:6
- 2 Kings 4:17
- 1 Chronicles 1:10
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.
