יַלְדָּה
girl
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
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.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (67%)
- Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute 1 time (33%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 3 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3207 appears — 3 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.
Genesis 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.
ילדה (yaldâh) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “girl.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. It concentrates in Genesis, which alone accounts for 33% of its uses. It first appears in Genesis 34:4. It clusters with ילד, ולד and ילדות under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3207 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 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 3 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 67%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 33%
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: Damsel 1×, Girl 1×, Girls 1×
- American Standard Version: Damsel 1×, Girl 1×, Girls 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Girl 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Girl 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3207 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3207 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3207 across 3 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 H3207 across 4 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 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 (yeled) (H3206) — child.
Forms in the corpus
The 3 distinct written forms H3207 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/יַּלְדָּ֥ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 34:4 | 1 |
| וְ/הַ/יַּלְדָּ֛ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Joel 3:3 | 1 |
| וִֽ/ילָד֑וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | Zechariah 8:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3207, 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
Compare all same-root words → They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 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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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.
