יֶ֫לֶד
child
also: son, boy, offspring, youth fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- 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
- 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).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 41 times (46%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute 26 times (29%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 20 times (22%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 3 times (3%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 90 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3206 appears — 76 distinct verses across 19 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.
Genesis 17 verses
- Genesis 4:23 וְ/יֶ֖לֶד conj + n c ms Lamech said to his wives, "Adah and Zillah, Hear my voice, You wives of Lamech, listen to my speech, For I have slain a man for wounding me, A young man for bruising me.
- Genesis 21:8 הַ/יֶּ֖לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms The child grew, and was weaned. Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.
- Genesis 21:14 הַ/יֶּ֖לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread and a bottle of water, and gave it to Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and gave her the child, and sent her away. She departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.
- Genesis 21:15 הַ/יֶּ֔לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms The water in the bottle was spent, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs.
- Genesis 21:16 הַ/יָּ֑לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms She went and sat down opposite him, a good way off, about a bow shot away. For she said, "Don't let me see the death of the child." She sat over against him, and lifted up her voice, and wept.
- Genesis 30:26 יְלָדַ֗/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Give me my wives and my children for whom I have served you, and let me go: for you know my service with which I have served you."
- Genesis 32:22 יְלָדָ֑י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms He rose up that night, and took his two wives, and his two handmaids, and his eleven sons, and passed over the ford of the Jabbok.
- Genesis 33:1 הַ/יְלָדִ֗ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Jacob lifted up his eyes, and looked, and, behold, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. He divided the children between Leah, Rachel, and to the two handmaids.
- Genesis 33:2 יַלְדֵי/הֶ֖ן וִֽ/ילָדֶ֨י/הָ֙ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fp conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs He put the handmaids and their children in front, Leah and her children after, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- Genesis 33:5 הַ/יְלָדִ֔ים הַ/יְלָדִ֕ים ptcl def.art + n c mp ptcl def.art + n c mp He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."
- Genesis 33:6 וְ/יַלְדֵי/הֶ֖ן conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fp Then the handmaids came near with their children, and they bowed themselves.
- Genesis 33:7 וִ/ילָדֶ֖י/הָ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs Leah also and her children came near, and bowed themselves. After them, Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed themselves.
- Genesis 33:13 הַ/יְלָדִ֣ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Jacob said to him, "My lord knows that the children are tender, and that the flocks and herds with me have their young, and if they overdrive them one day, all the flocks will die.
- Genesis 33:14 הַ/יְלָדִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Please let my lord pass over before his servant: and I will lead on gently, according to the pace of the cattle that are before me and according to the pace of the children, until I come to my lord to Seir."
- Genesis 37:30 הַ/יֶּ֣לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms He returned to his brothers, and said, "The child is no more; and I, where will I go?"
- Genesis 42:22 בַ/יֶּ֖לֶד prep det + n c ms Reuben answered them, saying, "Didn't I tell you, saying, 'Don't sin against the child,' and you wouldn't listen? Therefore also, behold, his blood is required."
- Genesis 44:20 וְ/יֶ֥לֶד conj + n c ms cs We said to my lord, 'We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother; and his father loves him.'
Exodus 10 verses
- Exodus 1:17 הַ/יְלָדִֽים ptcl def.art + n c mp But the midwives feared God, and didn't do what the king of Egypt commanded them, but saved the baby boys alive.
- Exodus 1:18 הַ/יְלָדִֽים ptcl def.art + n c mp The king of Egypt called for the midwives, and said to them, "Why have you done this thing, and have saved the men-children alive?"
- Exodus 2:3 הַ/יֶּ֔לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms When she could no longer hide him, she took a papyrus basket for him, and coated it with tar and with pitch. She put the child in it, and laid it in the reeds by the river's bank.
- Exodus 2:6 הַ/יֶּ֔לֶד מִ/יַּלְדֵ֥י ptcl def.art + n c ms prep + n c mp cs She opened it, and saw the child, and, behold, the baby cried. She had compassion on him, and said, "This is one of the Hebrews' children."
- Exodus 2:7 הַ/יָּֽלֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms Then his sister said to Pharaoh's daughter, "Should I go and call a nurse for you from the Hebrew women, that she may nurse the child for you?"
- Exodus 2:8 הַ/יָּֽלֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Go." The maiden went and called the child's mother.
- Exodus 2:9 הַ/יֶּ֤לֶד הַ/יֶּ֖לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Pharaoh's daughter said to her, "Take this child away, and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages." The woman took the child, and nursed it.
- Exodus 2:10 הַ/יֶּ֗לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms The child grew, and she brought him to Pharaoh's daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, "Because I drew him out of the water."
- Exodus 21:4 וִ/ילָדֶ֗י/הָ conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall be her master's, and he shall go out by himself.
- Exodus 21:22 יְלָדֶ֔י/הָ n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fs "If men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that she gives birth prematurely, and yet no harm follows, he shall be surely fined as much as the woman's husband demands and the judges allow.
Ruth 2 verses
1 Samuel 1 verse
2 Samuel 6 verses
- 2 Samuel 6:23 יָ֑לֶד n c ms Michal the daughter of Saul had no child to the day of her death.
- 2 Samuel 12:15 הַ/יֶּ֜לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms Nathan departed to his house. Yahweh struck the child that Uriah's wife bore to David, and it was very sick.
- 2 Samuel 12:18 הַ/יָּ֑לֶד הַ/יֶּ֗לֶד הַ/יֶּ֜לֶד הַ/יֶּ֖לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms It happened on the seventh day, that the child died. The servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead; for they said, Behold, while the child was yet alive, we spoke to him, and he didn't listen to our voice: how will he then vex himself, if we tell him that the child is dead!
- 2 Samuel 12:19 הַ/יָּ֑לֶד הַ/יֶּ֖לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms But when David saw that his servants were whispering together, David perceived that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, Is the child dead? They said, He is dead.
- 2 Samuel 12:21 הַ/יֶּ֤לֶד הַ/יֶּ֔לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms Then said his servants to him, What thing is this that you have done? you did fast and weep for the child, while it was alive; but when the child was dead, you did rise and eat bread.
- 2 Samuel 12:22 הַ/יֶּ֣לֶד הַ/יָּֽלֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms He said, While the child was yet alive, I fasted and wept: for I said, Who knows whether Yahweh will not be gracious to me, that the child may live?
1 Kings 8 verses
- 1 Kings 3:25 הַ/יֶּ֥לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms The king said, Divide the living child in two, and give half to the one, and half to the other.
- 1 Kings 12:8 הַ/יְלָדִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
- 1 Kings 12:10 הַ/יְלָדִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell this people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you speak to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
- 1 Kings 12:14 הַ/יְלָדִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
- 1 Kings 14:12 הַ/יָּֽלֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms Arise you therefore, get you to your house: [and] when your feet enter into the city, the child shall die.
- 1 Kings 17:21 הַ/יֶּ֨לֶד֙ הַ/יֶּ֥לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms He stretched himself on the child three times, and cried to Yahweh, and said, Yahweh my God, please let this child's soul come into him again.
- 1 Kings 17:22 הַ/יֶּ֛לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms Yahweh listened to the voice of Elijah; and the soul of the child came into him again, and he revived.
- 1 Kings 17:23 הַ/יֶּ֗לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms Elijah took the child, and brought him down out of the chamber into the house, and delivered him to his mother; and Elijah said, Behold, your son lives.
2 Kings 5 verses
- 2 Kings 2:24 יְלָדִֽים n c mp He looked behind him and saw them, and cursed them in the name of Yahweh. There came forth two she-bears out of the wood, and mauled forty-two lads of them.
- 2 Kings 4:1 יְלָדַ֛/י n c mp cs + sfx pers 1cs Now there cried a certain woman of the wives of the sons of the prophets to Elisha, saying, Your servant my husband is dead; and you know that your servant did fear Yahweh: and the creditor is come to take to him my two children to be bondservants.
- 2 Kings 4:18 הַ/יָּ֑לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms When the child was grown, it fell on a day, that he went out to his father to the reapers.
- 2 Kings 4:26 לַ/יָּ֑לֶד prep det + n c ms please run now to meet her, and ask her, Is it well with you? is it well with your husband? is it well with the child? She answered, It is well.
- 2 Kings 4:34 הַ/יֶּ֗לֶד הַ/יָּֽלֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms He went up, and lay on the child, and put his mouth on his mouth, and his eyes on his eyes, and his hands on his hands: and he stretched himself on him; and the flesh of the child grew warm.
2 Chronicles 3 verses
- 2 Chronicles 10:8 הַ/יְלָדִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp But he forsook the counsel of the old men which they had given him, and took counsel with the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.
- 2 Chronicles 10:10 הַ/יְלָדִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, Thus shall you tell the people who spoke to you, saying, Your father made our yoke heavy, but make you it lighter to us; thus shall you say to them, My little finger is thicker than my father's loins.
- 2 Chronicles 10:14 הַ/יְלָדִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp and spoke to them after the counsel of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I [will chastise you] with scorpions.
Ezra 1 verse
Nehemiah 1 verse
Job 3 verses
- Job 21:11 וְ֝/יַלְדֵי/הֶ֗ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.
- Job 38:41 ילד/ו יְ֭לָדָי/ו n c ms cs + sfx pers 3ms n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms Who provides for the raven his prey, When his young ones cry to God, And wander for lack of food?
- Job 39:3 יַלְדֵי/הֶ֣ן n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fp They bow themselves, they bring forth their young, They end their labor pains.
Ecclesiastes 2 verses
- Ecclesiastes 4:13 יֶ֥לֶד n c ms Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and foolish king who doesn't know how to receive admonition any more.
- Ecclesiastes 4:15 הַ/יֶּ֣לֶד ptcl def.art + n c ms I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.
Isaiah 7 verses
- Isaiah 2:6 וּ/בְ/יַלְדֵ֥י conj + prep + n c mp cs For you have forsaken your people, the house of Jacob, Because they are filled from the east, With those who practice divination like the Philistines, And they clasp hands with the children of foreigners.
- Isaiah 8:18 וְ/הַ/יְלָדִים֙ conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp Behold, I and the children whom Yahweh has given me are for signs and for wonders in Israel from Yahweh of Hosts, who dwells in Mount Zion.
- Isaiah 9:6 יֶ֣לֶד n c ms For to us a child is born, to us a son is given; and the government shall be on his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- Isaiah 11:7 יַלְדֵי/הֶ֑ן n c mp cs + sfx pers 3fp The cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together; and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.
- Isaiah 29:23 יְלָדָ֞י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms But when he sees his children, the work of my hands, in the midst of him, they shall sanctify my name; yes, they shall sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and shall stand in awe of the God of Israel.
- Isaiah 57:4 יִלְדֵי n c mp cs Against whom do you sport yourselves? against whom make you a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,
- Isaiah 57:5 הַ/יְלָדִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp you who inflame yourselves among the oaks, under every green tree; who kill the children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
Jeremiah 1 verse
Lamentations 1 verse
Daniel 5 verses
- Daniel 1:4 יְלָדִ֣ים n c mp youths in whom was no blemish, but well-favored, and skillful in all wisdom, and endowed with knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability to stand in the king's palace; and that he should teach them the learning and the language of the Chaldeans.
- Daniel 1:10 הַ/יְלָדִים֙ ptcl def.art + n c mp The prince of the eunuchs said to Daniel, I fear my lord the king, who has appointed your food and your drink: for why should he see your faces worse looking than the youths who are of your own age? so would you endanger my head with the king.
- Daniel 1:13 הַ/יְלָדִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp Then let our faces be looked on before you, and the face of the youths who eat of the king's dainties; and as you see, deal with your servants.
- Daniel 1:15 הַ/יְלָדִ֔ים ptcl def.art + n c mp At the end of ten days their faces appeared fairer, and they were fatter in flesh, than all the youths who ate of the king's dainties.
- Daniel 1:17 וְ/הַ/יְלָדִ֤ים conj + ptcl def.art + n c mp Now as for these four youths, God gave them knowledge and skill in all learning and wisdom: and Daniel had understanding in all visions and dreams.
Hosea 1 verse
Joel 1 verse
Zechariah 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.
ילד (yeled) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “child.” It also covers “son”, “boy”, and “offspring”, alongside “child” — see its full sense range. It turns up in 76 verses across 19 books, a moderately common footprint. It first appears in Genesis 4:23. From the same root come ילד, ילוד and יליד. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3206 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 →
- 76
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 76 distinct verses.
- 19 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 19 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #462
- by frequency
- Top 500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 462 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 76 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 76 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 31 verses · 41%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 27 verses · 36%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 18 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).
- King James Version: Child 34×, Children 21×, Young men 6×
- American Standard Version: Child 27×, Children 17×, Young men 4×
- Berean Standard Bible: Child 24×, Children 23×, Young men 10×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Child 36×, Children 24×, Young men 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3206 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 19 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 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3206 across 87 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 29 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 H3206 across 88 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 12 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 1 further occurrence.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3206 across 96 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 10 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 5 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.
- a. child = son, boy, Gn 21:8, 14, 15, 16; 37:30; 42:22 (all E), 32:23 (Dinah not included), cf. 30:26; 33:1, 2(×2), 5(×2), 6, 7, 13, 14; 44:20 (all J); Ex 1:17, 18 (‖ בֵּן v 16), 2:3, 6(×2), 7, 8, 9(×2), 10 (all E), 21:4 (E; app. = sons + daughters, but ‖ בָּנָ֑י v 5); pl. = offspring 21:22 (E; Hex, only Gn & Ex, JE); also Ru 1:5; 4:16; 2 S 12:15, 18(×4), 19(×2), 21(×2) 22(×2) 1 K 3:25 (cf. v 20), 14:12; 17:21(×2), 22, 23; 2 K 4:1 (cf. v 5) v 18, 26, 34(×2) Is 8:18; 9:5 (‖ בֵּן), Jo 4:3 (opp. יַלְדָּה), Zc 8:5 (id.); of young of raven Jb 38:41; of wild goats and hinds 39:3; of cow and bear Is 11:7. e.g. Genesis 21:8
- b. (little) child, children 1 S 1:2(×2) 2 S 6:23; Ezr 10:1 Ne 12:43 Jb 21:11 (‖ עֲוִילִים), Ho 1:2 La 4:10 Is 57:5. e.g. 1 Samuel 1:2
- c. descendants Is 29:23, יַלְדֵי נכרים (cf. בֵּן) 2:6. e.g. Isaiah 29:23
- d. youth Gn 4:23 (J), 1 K 12:8, 10, 14 = 2 Ch 10:8, 10, 14, Dn 1:4, 10, 13, 15, 17 cf. 2 K 2:24 (‖ נְעָרִים קְטַנִּים v 23), Ec 4:13, 15. e.g. Genesis 4:23
- e. fig. of apostate Israelites יִלְדֵי־פֶשַׁע Is 57:4 (‖ זֶרַע שָׁ֑קֶר); cf., in good sense, ילד שַׁעֲשׁוּעִים Je 31:20 of Ephraim (‖ בֵּן יַקִּיר). e.g. Isaiah 57:4
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
n.m. Gn 21:8 child, son, boy, youth—יֶ֫לֶד abs. Gn 4:23 +; cstr. Je 31:20; יָ֑לֶד Gn 21:16 +; pl. יְלָדִים 33:1 +; cstr. יַלְדֵי Ex 2:6 + 2 times; יִלְדֵי־ Is 57:4; sf. יְלָדַי Gn 30:26; 2 K 4:1; יַלְדֵיהֶם Jb 21:11; יַלְדֵיהֶן Gn 33:2 + 4 times, etc.;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ילד (yâlad) (H3205) — to bear.
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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The 52 distinct written forms H3206 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.
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- ילוד yillôwd H3209 born
- יליד yâlîyd H3211 born
- מולדת môwledeth H4138 offspring
- תולדה tôwlᵉdâh H8435 generations
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 74 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 76 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 4:23
- Exodus 1:17
- Ruth 1:5
- 1 Samuel 1:2
- 2 Samuel 6:23
- 1 Kings 3:25
- 2 Kings 2:24
- 2 Chronicles 10:8
- Ezra 10:1
- Job 21:11
- Ecclesiastes 4:13
- Isaiah 2:6
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