יָלִיד
born
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
- 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).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3211 appears in the Book of Numbers — 2 distinct verses. 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
- Numbers 13:22 יְלִידֵ֖י n c mp cs They went up by the South, and came to Hebron; and Ahiman, Sheshai, and Talmai, the children of Anak, were there. (Now Hebron was built seven years before Zoan in Egypt.)
- Numbers 13:28 יְלִדֵ֥י n c mp cs However the people who dwell in the land are strong, and the cities are fortified, [and] very great: and moreover we saw the children of Anak there.
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 יליד centers on the idea of “born.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 14:14. It appears 13 verses across 7 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. The word gravitates to Genesis (38%), then Numbers and 2 Samuel. It clusters with ילד, ילד and ילוד under a shared root. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3211 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 →
- 13
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 13 distinct verses.
- 7 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 7 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 13 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 13 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 8 verses · 62%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 31%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 8%
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: Children 3×, He that is born 3×, Was of the sons 2×
- American Standard Version: Children 3×, He that is born 2×, Was of the sons 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Descendant 3×, Born 2×, Descendants 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: One born in 3×, Children of 2×, Was among the children of 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3211 across 12 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. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3211 across 12 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H3211 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 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 H3211 across 14 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 7 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 1 sense 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.
- born
Word origin
adj. born, only cstr. יְלִיד Gn 17:12 + 4 times; pl. יְלִידֵי 14:14 + 6 times; בִּילִדֵי 2 S 21:18;—born, especially of slave יְלִיד בַּיִת born in (one’s) house (opp. purchased by money) Gn 17:12, 13, 27; Lv 22:11 (all P), cf. Je 2:14 where denied of Israel; יְלִידֵי בַיִת id. Gn 14:14; pl. elsewhere subst. = children, sons יל׳ הרפה 2 S 21:16, 18 cf. יל׳ הָרְפָאִים 1 Ch 20:4; יל׳ הענק Nu 13:22, 28 Jos 15:14 (all JE).
— 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.
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.
יְלֵיד
- , v. יְלַד
יָלִיד
- born; יְלִיד בַּיִת a slave born in the owner’s house; child of a slave, contrad. to מקנת כסף an acquired slave. Sabb. 135ᵇ
יְלִיד
- Targ. O. Gen. XVII, 12, sq.—Targ. Job XV, 14, v. יָלוּד ch.—Fem. יְלִידָא. Targ. O. Lev. XVIII, 9.
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 10 distinct written forms H3211 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יְלִ֣יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 17:12 | 2 |
| יְלִ֥יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 17:13 | 2 |
| יְלִידֵ֖י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Joshua 15:14 | 2 |
| בִּ/ילִדֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 2 Samuel 21:18 | 1 |
| בִּ/ילִידֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 2 Samuel 21:16 | 1 |
| וִ/ילִ֣יד | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Leviticus 22:11 | 1 |
| יְלִדֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 13:28 | 1 |
| יְלִידֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 14:14 | 1 |
| יְלִידֵ֤י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Genesis 17:23 | 1 |
| מִ/ילִדֵ֥י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 1 Chronicles 20:4 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3211, 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
- ילד yeled H3206 child
- ילוד yillôwd H3209 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 13 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 13 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 14:14
- Leviticus 22:11
- Numbers 13:22
- Joshua 15:14
- 2 Samuel 21:16
- 1 Chronicles 20:4
- Jeremiah 2:14
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.
