יָרַד
to go down
also: descend, decline, march down, sink down fuller range ↓
H3381
Strong's Hebrew
yârad
Transliteration
/yaw-rad'/
Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible
381
appearances
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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BDB Definition
to go down, descend, decline, march down, sink down
- (Qal)
- to go or come down
- to sink
- to be prostrated
- to come down (of revelation)
- (Hiphil)
- to bring down
- to send down
- to take down
- to lay prostrate
- to let down
- (Hophal)
- to be brought down
- to be taken down
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.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”). Here: ‘go down’
- Hiphil
- The causative active stem (“he caused / brought about”). Here: ‘bring down’
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”). Here: ‘be brought down’
Form
- Sequential Imperfect
- An imperfect with prefixed waw — the standard past-narrative form (waw-consecutive imperfect).
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
- Participle Active
- A verbal adjective expressing ongoing or characteristic action (“writing / one who writes”).
- Infinitive Construct
- A bound verbal noun, frequently with prepositions (“to write / in writing”).
- Sequential Perfect
- A perfect with prefixed waw continuing a preceding imperfect or command (waw-consecutive perfect).
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
- Imperative
- A direct command (“write!”).
- Cohortative
- A first-person volitional form expressing wish or resolve (“let me / let us write”).
- Jussive
- A third- or second-person volitional form expressing wish or command (“let him write”).
- Infinitive Absolute
- An unbound verbal noun, often intensifying or standing in for a finite verb.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
- 2nd Person
- The one addressed (“you”).
- 1st Person
- The speaker (“I / we”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
- Common
- Either gender — not distinguished for this form.
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
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Genesis 23 verses
- Genesis 11:5 וַ/יֵּ֣רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh came down to see the city and the tower, which the children of men built.
- Genesis 11:7 נֵֽרְדָ֔ה Qal coh 1cp Come, let's go down, and there confuse their language, that they may not understand one another's speech."
- Genesis 12:10 וַ/יֵּ֨רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms There was a famine in the land. Abram went down into Egypt to live as a foreigner there, for the famine was sore in the land.
- Genesis 15:11 וַ/יֵּ֥רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The birds of prey came down on the carcasses, and Abram drove them away.
- Genesis 18:21 אֵֽרֲדָה Qal coh 1cs I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come to me. If not, I will know."
- Genesis 24:16 וַ/תֵּ֣רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3fs The young lady was very beautiful to look at, a virgin, neither had any man known her. She went down to the spring, filled her pitcher, and came up.
- Genesis 24:45 וַ/תֵּ֥רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Before I had done speaking in my heart, behold, Rebekah came forth with her pitcher on her shoulder. She went down to the spring, and drew. I said to her, 'Please let me drink.'
- Genesis 26:2 תֵּרֵ֣ד Qal juss 2ms Yahweh appeared to him, and said, "Don't go down into Egypt. Dwell in the land which I will tell you of.
- Genesis 28:12 וְ/יֹרְדִ֖ים conj + Qal ptcp.act mp He dreamed. Behold, a stairway set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven. Behold, the angels of God ascending and descending on it.
- Genesis 37:35 אֵרֵ֧ד Qal impf 1cs All his sons and all his daughters rose up to comfort him; but he refused to be comforted. He said, "For I will go down to Sheol to my son mourning." His father wept for him.
- Genesis 38:1 וַ/יֵּ֥רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened at that time, that Judah went down from his brothers, and visited a certain Adullamite, whose name was Hirah.
- Genesis 42:2 רְדוּ Qal impv 2mp He said, "Behold, I have heard that there is grain in Egypt. Go down there, and buy for us from there, so that we may live, and not die."
- Genesis 42:3 וַ/יֵּרְד֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Joseph's ten brothers went down to buy grain from Egypt.
- Genesis 42:38 יֵרֵ֥ד וְ/הוֹרַדְתֶּ֧ם Qal impf 3ms conj + Hiphil wpf 2mp He said, "My son shall not go down with you; for his brother is dead, and he only is left. If harm happens to him by the way in which you go, then you will bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to Sheol."
- Genesis 43:4 נֵרְדָ֕ה Qal coh 1cp If you will send our brother with us, we will go down and buy you food,
- Genesis 43:5 נֵרֵ֑ד Qal impf 1cp but if you will not send him, we will not go down, for the man said to us, 'You shall not see my face, unless your brother is with you.'"
- Genesis 43:15 וַ/יֵּרְד֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp The men took that present, and they took double money in their hand, and Benjamin; and rose up, went down to Egypt, and stood before Joseph.
- Genesis 43:20 יָרֹ֥ד יָרַ֛דְנוּ Qal inf.abs Qal pf 1cp and said, "Oh, my lord, we came indeed down at the first time to buy food:
- Genesis 44:23 יֵרֵ֛ד Qal impf 3ms You said to your servants, 'Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will see my face no more.'
- Genesis 44:26 לָ/רֶ֑דֶת וְ/יָרַ֔דְנוּ prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wpf 1cp We said, 'We can't go down. If our youngest brother is with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man's face, unless our youngest brother is with us.'
- Genesis 45:9 רְדָ֥/ה Qal impv 2ms + sfx h Hurry, and go up to my father, and tell him, 'This is what your son Joseph says, "God has made me lord of all Egypt. Come down to me. Don't wait.
- Genesis 46:3 מֵ/רְדָ֣ה prep + Qal inf.cs He said, "I am God, the God of your father. Don't be afraid to go down into Egypt; for there I will make of you a great nation.
- Genesis 46:4 אֵרֵ֤ד Qal impf 1cs I will go down with you into Egypt. I will also surely bring you up again. Joseph will close your eyes."
Exodus 18 verses
- Exodus 2:5 וַ/תֵּ֤רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Pharaoh's daughter came down to bathe at the river. Her maidens walked along by the riverside. She saw the basket among the reeds, and sent her handmaid to get it.
- Exodus 3:8 וָ/אֵרֵ֞ד conj + Qal wimpf 1cs I have come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land to a good and large land, to a land flowing with milk and honey; to the place of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
- Exodus 9:19 וְ/יָרַ֧ד conj + Qal wpf 3ms Now therefore command that all of your cattle and all that you have in the field be brought into shelter. Every man and animal that is found in the field, and isn't brought home, the hail shall come down on them, and they shall die."'"
- Exodus 11:8 וְ/יָרְד֣וּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp All these your servants shall come down to me, and bow down themselves to me, saying, 'Get out, and all the people who follow you; and after that I will go out.'" He went out from Pharaoh in hot anger.
- Exodus 15:5 יָרְד֥וּ Qal pf 3cp The deeps cover them. They went down into the depths like a stone.
- Exodus 19:11 יֵרֵ֧ד Qal impf 3ms and be ready against the third day; for on the third day Yahweh will come down in the sight of all the people on Mount Sinai.
- Exodus 19:14 וַ/יֵּ֧רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses went down from the mountain to the people, and sanctified the people; and they washed their clothes.
- Exodus 19:18 יָרַ֥ד Qal pf 3ms Mount Sinai, the whole of it, smoked, because Yahweh descended on it in fire; and its smoke ascended like the smoke of a furnace, and the whole mountain quaked greatly.
- Exodus 19:20 וַ/יֵּ֧רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh came down on Mount Sinai, to the top of the mountain. Yahweh called Moses to the top of the mountain, and Moses went up.
- Exodus 19:21 רֵ֖ד Qal impv 2ms Yahweh said to Moses, "Go down, charge the people, lest they break through to Yahweh to gaze, and many of them perish.
- Exodus 19:24 רֵ֔ד Qal impv 2ms Yahweh said to him, "Go down and you shall bring Aaron up with you, but don't let the priests and the people break through to come up to Yahweh, lest he break forth on them."
- Exodus 19:25 וַ/יֵּ֥רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Moses went down to the people, and told them.
- Exodus 32:1 לָ/רֶ֣דֶת prep + Qal inf.cs When the people saw that Moses delayed to come down from the mountain, the people gathered themselves together to Aaron, and said to him, "Come, make us gods, which shall go before us; for as for this Moses, the man who brought us up out of the land of Egypt, we don't know what has become of him."
- Exodus 32:7 רֵ֕ד Qal impv 2ms Yahweh spoke to Moses, "Go, get down; for your people, who you brought up out of the land of Egypt, have corrupted themselves!
- Exodus 32:15 וַ/יֵּ֤רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses turned, and went down from the mountain, with the two tablets of the testimony in his hand; tablets that were written on both their sides; on the one side and on the other they were written.
- Exodus 33:9 יֵרֵד֙ Qal impf 3ms It happened, when Moses entered into the Tent, that the pillar of cloud descended, stood at the door of the Tent, and spoke with Moses.
- Exodus 34:5 וַ/יֵּ֤רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh descended in the cloud, and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of Yahweh.
- Exodus 34:29 בְּ/רֶ֤דֶת בְּ/רִדְתּ֖/וֹ prep + Qal inf.cs prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3ms It happened, when Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the testimony in Moses' hand, when he came down from the mountain, that Moses didn't know that the skin of his face shone by reason of his speaking with him.
Leviticus 1 verse
Numbers 11 verses
- Numbers 11:9 וּ/בְ/רֶ֧דֶת יֵרֵ֥ד conj + prep + Qal inf.cs Qal impf 3ms When the dew fell on the camp in the night, the manna fell on it.
- Numbers 11:17 וְ/יָרַדְתִּ֗י conj + Qal wpf 1cs I will come down and talk with you there: and I will take of the Spirit which is on you, and will put it on them; and they shall bear the burden of the people with you, that you not bear it yourself alone.
- Numbers 11:25 וַ/יֵּ֨רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh came down in the cloud, and spoke to him, and took of the Spirit that was on him, and put it on the seventy elders: and it happened that when the Spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did so no more.
- Numbers 12:5 וַ/יֵּ֤רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh came down in a pillar of cloud, and stood at the door of the Tent, and called Aaron and Miriam; and they both came forth.
- Numbers 14:45 וַ/יֵּ֤רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then the Amalekite came down, and the Canaanite who lived in that mountain, and struck them and beat them down, even to Hormah.
- Numbers 16:30 וְ/יָרְד֥וּ conj + Qal wpf 3cp But if Yahweh make a new thing, and the ground open its mouth, and swallow them up, with all that appertain to them, and they go down alive into Sheol; then you shall understand that these men have despised Yahweh.
- Numbers 16:33 וַ/יֵּ֨רְד֜וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp So they, and all that appertained to them, went down alive into Sheol: and the earth closed on them, and they perished from among the assembly.
- Numbers 20:15 וַ/יֵּרְד֤וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp how our fathers went down into Egypt, and we lived in Egypt a long time; and the Egyptians dealt ill with us, and our fathers:
- Numbers 20:28 וַ/יֵּ֧רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Moses stripped Aaron of his garments, and put them on Eleazar his son; and Aaron died there on the top of the mountain: and Moses and Eleazar came down from the mountain.
- Numbers 34:11 וְ/יָרַ֨ד וְ/יָרַ֣ד conj + Qal wpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms and the border shall go down from Shepham to Riblah, on the east side of Ain; and the border shall go down, and shall reach to the side of the sea of Chinnereth eastward;
- Numbers 34:12 וְ/יָרַ֤ד conj + Qal wpf 3ms and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and the goings out of it shall be at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land according to the borders of it round about.
Deuteronomy 10 verses
- Deuteronomy 9:12 רֵ֤ד Qal impv 2ms Yahweh said to me, Arise, get you down quickly from hence; for your people whom you have brought forth out of Egypt have corrupted themselves; they have quickly turned aside out of the way which I commanded them; they have made them a molten image.
- Deuteronomy 9:15 וָֽ/אֵרֵד֙ conj + Qal wimpf 1cs So I turned and came down from the mountain, and the mountain was burning with fire: and the two tables of the covenant were in my two hands.
- Deuteronomy 9:21 הַ/יֹּרֵ֥ד ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms I took your sin, the calf which you had made, and burnt it with fire, and stamped it, grinding it very small, until it was as fine as dust: and I cast the dust of it into the brook that descended out of the mountain.
- Deuteronomy 10:5 וָֽ/אֵרֵד֙ conj + Qal wimpf 1cs I turned and came down from the mountain, and put the tables in the ark which I had made; and there they are as Yahweh commanded me.
- Deuteronomy 10:22 יָרְד֥וּ Qal pf 3cp Your fathers went down into Egypt with seventy persons; and now Yahweh your God has made you as the stars of the sky for multitude.
- Deuteronomy 20:20 רִדְתָּֽ/הּ Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 3fs Only the trees of which you know that they are not trees for food, you shall destroy and cut them down; and you shall build bulwarks against the city that makes war with you, until it fall.
- Deuteronomy 26:5 וַ/יֵּ֣רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms You shall answer and say before Yahweh your God, A Syrian ready to perish was my father; and he went down into Egypt, and sojourned there, few in number; and he became there a nation, great, mighty, and populous.
- Deuteronomy 28:24 יֵרֵ֣ד Qal impf 3ms Yahweh will make the rain of your land powder and dust: from the sky shall it come down on you, until you are destroyed.
- Deuteronomy 28:43 תֵרֵ֖ד Qal impf 2ms The foreigner who is in the midst of you shall mount up above you higher and higher; and you shall come down lower and lower.
- Deuteronomy 28:52 רֶ֤דֶת Qal inf.cs They shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fortified walls come down, in which you trusted, throughout all your land; and they shall besiege you in all your gates throughout all your land, which Yahweh your God has given you.
Joshua 12 verses
- Joshua 2:23 וַ/יֵּרְד֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then the two men returned, and descended from the mountain, and passed over, and came to Joshua the son of Nun; and they told him all that had happened to them.
- Joshua 3:13 הַ/יֹּרְדִ֖ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp It shall come to pass, when the soles of the feet of the priests who bear the ark of Yahweh, the Lord of all the earth, shall rest in the waters of the Jordan, that the waters of the Jordan shall be cut off, even the waters that come down from above; and they shall stand in one heap.
- Joshua 3:16 הַ/יֹּרְדִ֨ים וְ/הַ/יֹּרְדִ֗ים ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp conj + ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act mp that the waters which came down from above stood, and rose up in one heap, a great way off, at Adam, the city that is beside Zarethan; and those that went down toward the sea of the Arabah, even the Salt Sea, were wholly cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.
- Joshua 15:10 וְ/יָרַ֥ד conj + Qal pf 3ms and the border turned about from Baalah westward to Mount Seir, and passed along to the side of Mount Jearim on the north (the same is Chesalon), and went down to Beth-shemesh, and passed along by Timnah;
- Joshua 16:3 וְ/יָֽרַד conj + Qal wpf 3ms and it went down westward to the border of the Japhletites, to the border of Beth Horon the lower, even to Gezer; and the goings out of it were at the sea.
- Joshua 16:7 וְ/יָרַ֥ד conj + Qal wpf 3ms and it went down from Janoah to Ataroth, and to Naarah, and reached to Jericho, and went out at the Jordan.
- Joshua 17:9 וְ/יָרַ֣ד conj + Qal wpf 3ms The border went down to the brook of Kanah, southward of the brook: these cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh: and the border of Manasseh was on the north side of the brook, and the goings out of it were at the sea:
- Joshua 18:13 וְ/יָרַ֤ד conj + Qal wpf 3ms The border passed along from there to Luz, to the side of Luz (the same is Bethel), southward; and the border went down to Ataroth Addar, by the mountain that lies on the south of Beth Horon the lower.
- Joshua 18:16 וְ/יָרַ֨ד וְ/יָרַד֩ וְ/יָרַ֖ד conj + Qal wpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms conj + Qal wpf 3ms and the border went down to the uttermost part of the mountain that lies before the valley of the son of Hinnom, which is in the valley of Rephaim northward; and it went down to the valley of Hinnom, to the side of the Jebusite southward, and went down to En Rogel;
- Joshua 18:17 וְ/יָרַ֕ד conj + Qal wpf 3ms and it extended northward, and went out at En Shemesh, and went out to Geliloth, which is over against the ascent of Adummim; and it went down to the stone of Bohan the son of Reuben;
- Joshua 18:18 וְ/יָרַ֖ד conj + Qal wpf 3ms and it passed along to the side over against the Arabah northward, and went down to the Arabah;
- Joshua 24:4 יָרְד֥וּ Qal pf 3cp I gave to Isaac Jacob and Esau: and I gave to Esau Mount Seir, to possess it: and Jacob and his children went down into Egypt.
Judges 24 verses
- Judges 1:9 יָֽרְדוּ֙ Qal pf 3cp Afterward the children of Judah went down to fight against the Canaanites who lived in the hill-country, and in the South, and in the lowland.
- Judges 1:34 לָ/רֶ֥דֶת prep + Qal inf.cs The Amorites forced the children of Dan into the hill-country; for they would not allow them to come down to the valley;
- Judges 3:27 וַ/יֵּרְד֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp It happened, when he had come, that he blew a trumpet in the hill-country of Ephraim; and the children of Israel went down with him from the hill-country, and he before them.
- Judges 3:28 וַ/יֵּרְד֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp He said to them, Follow after me; for Yahweh has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand. They went down after him, and took the fords of the Jordan against the Moabites, and didn't allow a man to pass over.
- Judges 4:14 וַ/יֵּ֤רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Deborah said to Barak, Up; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand; hasn't Yahweh gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
- Judges 4:15 וַ/יֵּ֧רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Yahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
- Judges 5:11 יָרְד֥וּ Qal pf 3cp Far from the noise of archers, in the places of drawing water, There shall they rehearse the righteous acts of Yahweh, [Even] the righteous acts of his rule in Israel. Then the people of Yahweh went down to the gates.
- Judges 5:14 יָֽרְדוּ֙ Qal pf 3cp Out of Ephraim [came down] they whose root is in Amalek; After you, Benjamin, among your peoples; Out of Machir came down governors, Out of Zebulun those who handle the marshal's staff.
- Judges 7:9 רֵ֣ד Qal impv 2ms It happened the same night, that Yahweh said to him, Arise, get you down into the camp; for I have delivered it into your hand.
- Judges 7:10 לָ/רֶ֑דֶת רֵ֥ד prep + Qal inf.cs Qal impv 2ms But if you fear to go down, go you with Purah your servant down to the camp:
- Judges 7:11 וְ/יָרַדְתָּ֖ וַ/יֵּ֤רֶד conj + Qal wpf 2ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms and you shall hear what they say; and afterward shall your hands be strengthened to go down into the camp. Then went he down with Purah his servant to the outermost part of the armed men who were in the camp.
- Judges 7:24 רְד֞וּ Qal impv 2mp Gideon sent messengers throughout all the hill-country of Ephraim, saying, Come down against Midian, and take before them the waters, as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan. So all the men of Ephraim were gathered together, and took the waters as far as Beth Barah, even the Jordan.
- Judges 9:36 יוֹרֵ֔ד Qal ptcp.act ms When Gaal saw the people, he said to Zebul, Behold, there come people down from the tops of the mountains. Zebul said to him, You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men.
- Judges 9:37 יֽוֹרְדִ֔ים Qal ptcp.act mp Gaal spoke again and said, Behold, there come people down by the middle of the land, and one company comes by the way of the oak of Meonenim.
- Judges 11:37 וְ/יָרַדְתִּ֣י conj + Qal wpf 1cs She said to her father, Let this thing be done for me: let me alone two months, that I may depart and go down on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions.
- Judges 14:1 וַ/יֵּ֥רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samson went down to Timnah, and saw a woman in Timnah of the daughters of the Philistines.
- Judges 14:5 וַ/יֵּ֧רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then went Samson down, and his father and his mother, to Timnah, and came to the vineyards of Timnah: and, behold, a young lion roared against him.
- Judges 14:7 וַ/יֵּ֖רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He went down, and talked with the woman, and she pleased Samson well.
- Judges 14:10 וַ/יֵּ֥רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms His father went down to the woman: and Samson made there a feast; for so used the young men to do.
- Judges 14:19 וַ/יֵּ֨רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The Spirit of Yahweh came mightily on him, and he went down to Ashkelon, and struck thirty men of them, and took their spoil, and gave the changes [of clothing] to those who declared the riddle. His anger was kindled, and he went up to his father's house.
- Judges 15:8 וַ/יֵּ֣רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He struck them hip and thigh with a great slaughter: and he went down and lived in the cleft of the rock of Etam.
- Judges 15:11 וַ/יֵּרְד֡וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then three thousand men of Judah went down to the cleft of the rock of Etam, and said to Samson, "Don't you know that the Philistines are rulers over us? What then is this that you have done to us?" He said to them, As they did to me, so have I done to them.
- Judges 15:12 יָרַ֔דְנוּ Qal pf 1cp They said to him, We have come down to bind you, that we may deliver you into the hand of the Philistines. Samson said to them, Swear to me that you will not fall on me yourselves.
- Judges 16:31 וַ/יֵּרְד֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Then his brothers and all the house of his father came down, and took him, and brought him up, and buried him between Zorah and Eshtaol in the burying-place of Manoah his father. He judged Israel twenty years.
Ruth 2 verses
- Ruth 3:3 ו/ירדתי וְ/יָרַ֣דְתְּ conj + Qal wpf 1cs conj + Qal wpf 2fs Wash yourself therefore, and anoint you, and put your clothing on you, and get you down to the threshing floor, but don't make yourself known to the man, until he shall have done eating and drinking.
- Ruth 3:6 וַ/תֵּ֖רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3fs She went down to the threshing floor, and did according to all that her mother-in-law bade her.
1 Samuel 29 verses
- 1 Samuel 6:21 רְד֕וּ Qal impv 2mp They sent messengers to the inhabitants of Kiriath Jearim, saying, The Philistines have brought back the ark of Yahweh; come you down, and bring it up to you.
- 1 Samuel 9:25 וַ/יֵּרְד֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When they were come down from the high place into the city, he talked with Saul on the housetop.
- 1 Samuel 9:27 יֽוֹרְדִים֙ Qal ptcp.act mp As they were going down at the end of the city, Samuel said to Saul, Bid the servant pass on before us (and he passed on), but stand you still first, that I may cause you to hear the word of God.
- 1 Samuel 10:5 יֹרְדִ֣ים Qal ptcp.act mp After that you shall come to the hill of God, where is the garrison of the Philistines: and it shall happen, when you are come there to the city, that you shall meet a band of prophets coming down from the high place with a psaltery, and a tambourine, and a pipe, and a harp, before them; and they will be prophesying:
- 1 Samuel 10:8 וְ/יָרַדְתָּ֣ יֹרֵ֣ד conj + Qal wpf 2ms Qal ptcp.act ms You shall go down before me to Gilgal; and, behold, I will come down to you, to offer burnt offerings, and to sacrifice sacrifices of peace-offerings: seven days shall you wait, until I come to you, and show you what you shall do.
- 1 Samuel 13:12 יֵרְד֨וּ Qal impf 3mp therefore said I, Now will the Philistines come down on me to Gilgal, and I haven't entreated the favor of Yahweh: I forced myself therefore, and offered the burnt offering.
- 1 Samuel 13:20 וַ/יֵּרְד֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp but all the Israelites went down to the Philistines, to sharpen every man his plowshare, mattock, axe, and sickle;
- 1 Samuel 14:36 נֵרְדָ֣ה Qal coh 1cp Saul said, Let us go down after the Philistines by night, and take spoil among them until the morning light, and let us not leave a man of them. They said, Do whatever seems good to you. Then said the priest, Let us draw near here to God.
- 1 Samuel 14:37 הַֽ/אֵרֵד֙ ptcl inter + Qal impf 1cs Saul asked counsel of God, Shall I go down after the Philistines? will you deliver them into the hand of Israel? But he didn't answer him that day.
- 1 Samuel 15:6 רְד֜וּ Qal impv 2mp Saul said to the Kenites, Go, depart, get you down from among the Amalekites, lest I destroy you with them; for you shown kindness to all the children of Israel, when they came up out of Egypt. So the Kenites departed from among the Amalekites.
- 1 Samuel 15:12 וַ/יֵּ֖רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel rose early to meet Saul in the morning; and it was told Samuel, saying, Saul came to Carmel, and, behold, he set him up a monument, and turned, and passed on, and went down to Gilgal.
- 1 Samuel 17:8 וְ/יֵרֵ֥ד conj + Qal juss 3ms He stood and cried to the armies of Israel, and said to them, Why are you come out to set your battle in array? am I not a Philistine, and you servants to Saul? choose you a man for you, and let him come down to me.
- 1 Samuel 17:28 יָרַ֗דְתָּ יָרָֽדְתָּ Qal pf 2ms Qal pf 2ms Eliab his eldest brother heard when he spoke to the men; and Eliab's anger was kindled against David, and he said, Why are you come down? and with whom have you left those few sheep in the wilderness? I know your pride, and the naughtiness of your heart; for you have come down that you might see the battle.
- 1 Samuel 20:19 תֵּרֵ֣ד Qal juss 2ms When you have stayed three days, you shall go down quickly, and come to the place where you did hide yourself when the business was in hand, and shall remain by the stone Ezel.
- 1 Samuel 22:1 וַ/יֵּרְד֥וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp David therefore departed there, and escaped to the cave of Adullam: and when his brothers and all his father's house heard it, they went down there to him.
- 1 Samuel 23:4 רֵ֣ד Qal impv 2ms Then David inquired of Yahweh yet again. Yahweh answered him, and said, Arise, go down to Keilah; for I will deliver the Philistines into your hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:6 יָרַ֥ד Qal pf 3ms It happened, when Abiathar the son of Ahimelech fled to David to Keilah, that he came down with an ephod in his hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:8 לָ/רֶ֣דֶת prep + Qal inf.cs Saul summoned all the people to war, to go down to Keilah, to besiege David and his men.
- 1 Samuel 23:11 הֲ/יֵרֵ֣ד יֵרֵֽד ptcl inter + Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 3ms Will the men of Keilah deliver me up into his hand? will Saul come down, as your servant has heard? Yahweh, the God of Israel, I beg you, tell your servant. Yahweh said, He will come down.
- 1 Samuel 23:20 לָ/רֶ֖דֶת רֵ֑ד prep + Qal inf.cs Qal impv 2ms Now therefore, O king, come down, according to all the desire of your soul to come down; and our part shall be to deliver him up into the king's hand.
- 1 Samuel 23:25 וַ/יֵּ֣רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Saul and his men went to seek him. They told David: why he came down to the rock, and abode in the wilderness of Maon. When Saul heard [that], he pursued after David in the wilderness of Maon.
- 1 Samuel 25:1 וַ/יֵּ֖רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Samuel died; and all Israel gathered themselves together, and lamented him, and buried him in his house at Ramah. David arose, and went down to the wilderness of Paran.
- 1 Samuel 25:20 וְ/יֹרֶ֨דֶת֙ יֹרְדִ֖ים conj + Qal ptcp.act fs Qal ptcp.act mp It was so, as she rode on her donkey, and came down by the covert of the mountain, that behold, David and his men came down toward her; and she met them.
- 1 Samuel 25:23 וַ/תֵּ֖רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3fs When Abigail saw David, she hurried, and alighted from her donkey, and fell before David on her face, and bowed herself to the ground.
- 1 Samuel 26:2 וַ/יֵּ֨רֶד֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then Saul arose, and went down to the wilderness of Ziph, having three thousand chosen men of Israel with him, to seek David in the wilderness of Ziph.
- 1 Samuel 26:6 יֵרֵ֥ד אֵרֵ֥ד Qal impf 3ms Qal impf 1cs Then answered David and said to Ahimelech the Hittite, and to Abishai the son of Zeruiah, brother to Joab, saying, Who will go down with me to Saul to the camp? Abishai said, I will go down with you.
- 1 Samuel 26:10 יֵרֵ֖ד Qal impf 3ms David said, As Yahweh lives, Yahweh will strike him; or his day shall come to die; or he shall go down into battle and perish.
- 1 Samuel 29:4 יֵרֵ֤ד Qal impf 3ms But the princes of the Philistines were angry with him; and the princes of the Philistines said to him, Make the man return, that he may go back to his place where you have appointed him, and let him not go down with us to battle, lest in the battle he become an adversary to us: for with what should this [fellow] reconcile himself to his lord? should it not be with the heads of these men?
- 1 Samuel 30:24 הַ/יֹּרֵ֣ד ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms Who will listen to you in this matter? for as his share is who goes down to the battle, so shall his share be who tarries by the baggage: they shall share alike.
2 Samuel 16 verses
- 2 Samuel 5:17 וַ/יֵּ֖רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms When the Philistines heard that they had anointed David king over Israel, all the Philistines went up to seek David; and David heard of it, and went down to the stronghold.
- 2 Samuel 11:8 רֵ֥ד Qal impv 2ms David said to Uriah, Go down to your house, and wash your feet. Uriah departed out of the king's house, and there followed him a mess [of food] from the king.
- 2 Samuel 11:9 יָרַ֖ד Qal pf 3ms But Uriah slept at the door of the king's house with all the servants of his lord, and didn't go down to his house.
- 2 Samuel 11:10 יָרַ֥ד יָרַ֥דְתָּ Qal pf 3ms Qal pf 2ms When they had told David, saying, Uriah didn't go down to his house, David said to Uriah, Haven't you come from a journey? why did you not go down to your house?
- 2 Samuel 11:13 יָרָֽד Qal pf 3ms When David had called him, he ate and drink before him; and he made him drunk: and at even he went out to lie on his bed with the servants of his lord, but didn't go down to his house.
- 2 Samuel 17:18 וַ/יֵּ֥רְדוּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp But a boy saw them, and told Absalom: and they went both of them away quickly, and came to the house of a man in Bahurim, who had a well in his court; and they went down there.
- 2 Samuel 18:4 יָֽצְא֔וּ Qal pf 3cp The king said to them, What seems you best I will do. The king stood by the gate-side, and all the people went out by hundreds and by thousands.
- 2 Samuel 19:16 וַ/יֵּ֨רֶד֙ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, who was of Bahurim, hurried and came down with the men of Judah to meet king David.
- 2 Samuel 19:20 לָ/רֶ֕דֶת prep + Qal inf.cs For your servant does know that I have sinned: therefore, behold, I am come this day the first of all the house of Joseph to go down to meet my lord the king.
- 2 Samuel 19:24 יָרַ֖ד Qal pf 3ms Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king; and he had neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he came home in peace.
- 2 Samuel 19:31 יָרַ֖ד Qal pf 3ms Barzillai the Gileadite came down from Rogelim; and he went over the Jordan with the king, to conduct him over the Jordan.
- 2 Samuel 21:15 וַ/יֵּ֨רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The Philistines had war again with Israel; and David went down, and his servants with him, and fought against the Philistines. David grew faint;
- 2 Samuel 22:10 וַ/יֵּרַ֑ד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He bowed the heavens also, and came down; Thick darkness was under his feet.
- 2 Samuel 23:13 וַ/יֵּרְד֨וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Three of the thirty chief men went down, and came to David in the harvest time to the cave of Adullam; and the troop of the Philistines was encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- 2 Samuel 23:20 יָרַ֞ד Qal pf 3ms Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
- 2 Samuel 23:21 וַ/יֵּ֥רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He killed an Egyptian, a goodly man: and the Egyptian had a spear in his hand; but he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
1 Kings 7 verses
- 1 Kings 1:25 יָרַ֣ד Qal pf 3ms For he is gone down this day, and has slain oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has called all the king's sons, and the captains of the host, and Abiathar the priest; and, behold, they are eating and drinking before him, and say, [Long] live king Adonijah.
- 1 Kings 1:38 וַ/יֵּ֣רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms So Zadok the priest, and Nathan the prophet, and Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, and the Cherethites and the Pelethites, went down, and caused Solomon to ride on king David's mule, and brought him to Gihon.
- 1 Kings 2:8 יָרַ֤ד Qal pf 3ms Behold, there is with you Shimei the son of Gera, the Benjamite, of Bahurim, who cursed me with a grievous curse in the day when I went to Mahanaim; but he came down to meet me at the Jordan, and I swore to him by Yahweh, saying, I will not put you to death with the sword.
- 1 Kings 18:44 וָ/רֵ֔ד conj + Qal impv 2ms It happened at the seventh time, that he said, "Behold, a small cloud, like a man's hand, is rising out of the sea." He said, Go up, tell Ahab, Make ready [your chariot], and get you down, that the rain not stop you.
- 1 Kings 21:16 לָ/רֶ֛דֶת prep + Qal inf.cs It happened, when Ahab heard that Naboth was dead, that Ahab rose up to go down to the vineyard of Naboth the Jezreelite, to take possession of it.
- 1 Kings 21:18 רֵ֗ד יָ֥רַד Qal impv 2ms Qal pf 3ms Arise, go down to meet Ahab king of Israel, who dwells in Samaria: behold, he is in the vineyard of Naboth, where he is gone down to take possession of it.
- 1 Kings 22:2 וַ/יֵּ֛רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms It happened in the third year, that Jehoshaphat the king of Judah came down to the king of Israel.
2 Kings 21 verses
- 2 Kings 1:4 תֵרֵ֥ד Qal impf 2ms Now therefore thus says Yahweh, You shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die. Elijah departed.
- 2 Kings 1:6 תֵרֵ֥ד Qal impf 2ms They said to him, There came up a man to meet us, and said to us, Go, turn again to the king who sent you, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Is it because there is no God in Israel, that you send to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron? therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die.
- 2 Kings 1:9 רֵֽדָ/ה Qal impv 2ms + sfx h Then [the king] sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. He went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He spoke to him, man of God, the king has said, Come down.
- 2 Kings 1:10 תֵּ֤רֶד וַ/תֵּ֤רֶד Qal juss 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
- 2 Kings 1:11 רֵֽדָ/ה Qal impv 2ms + sfx h Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly.
- 2 Kings 1:12 תֵּ֤רֶד וַ/תֵּ֤רֶד Qal juss 3fs conj + Qal wimpf 3fs Elijah answered them, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. The fire of God came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
- 2 Kings 1:14 יָ֤רְדָה Qal pf 3fs Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.
- 2 Kings 1:15 רֵ֣ד וַ/יֵּ֥רֶד Qal impv 2ms conj + Qal wimpf 3ms The angel of Yahweh said to Elijah, Go down with him: don't be afraid of him. He arose, and went down with him to the king.
- 2 Kings 1:16 תֵרֵ֥ד Qal impf 2ms He said to him, Thus says Yahweh, Because you have sent messengers to inquire of Baal Zebub, the god of Ekron, is it because there is no God in Israel to inquire of his word? therefore you shall not come down from the bed where you are gone up, but shall surely die.
- 2 Kings 2:2 וַ/יֵּרְד֖וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Elijah said to Elisha, Please wait here, for Yahweh has sent me as far as Bethel. Elisha said, As Yahweh lives, and as your soul lives, I will not leave you. So they went down to Bethel.
- 2 Kings 3:12 וַ/יֵּרְד֣וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Jehoshaphat said, The word of Yahweh is with him. So the king of Israel and Jehoshaphat and the king of Edom went down to him.
- 2 Kings 5:14 וַ/יֵּ֗רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Then went he down, and dipped [himself] seven times in the Jordan, according to the saying of the man of God; and his flesh came again like the flesh of a little child, and he was clean.
- 2 Kings 6:18 וַ/יֵּרְדוּ֮ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp When they came down to him, Elisha prayed to Yahweh, and said, Please smite this people with blindness. He struck them with blindness according to the word of Elisha.
- 2 Kings 6:33 יֹרֵ֣ד Qal ptcp.act ms While he was yet talking with them, behold, the messenger came down to him: and he said, Behold, this evil is of Yahweh; why should I wait for Yahweh any longer?
- 2 Kings 7:17 בְּ/רֶ֥דֶת prep + Qal inf.cs The king appointed the captain on whose hand he leaned to have the charge of the gate: and the people trod on him in the gate, and he died as the man of God had said, who spoke when the king came down to him.
- 2 Kings 8:29 יָרַ֡ד Qal pf 3ms King Joram returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which the Syrians had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Joram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
- 2 Kings 9:16 יָרַ֖ד Qal pf 3ms So Jehu rode in a chariot, and went to Jezreel; for Joram lay there. Ahaziah king of Judah was come down to see Joram.
- 2 Kings 10:13 וַ/נֵּ֛רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 1cp Jehu met with the brothers of Ahaziah king of Judah, and said, Who are you? They answered, We are the brothers of Ahaziah: and we go down to Greet the children of the king and the children of the queen.
- 2 Kings 12:20 הַ/יּוֹרֵ֥ד ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act ms His servants arose, and made a conspiracy, and struck Joash at the house of Millo, [on the way] that goes down to Silla.
- 2 Kings 13:14 וַ/יֵּ֨רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms Now Elisha was fallen sick of his sickness of which he died: and Joash the king of Israel came down to him, and wept over him, and said, My father, my father, the chariots of Israel and the horsemen of it!
- 2 Kings 20:11 יָרְדָ֜ה Qal pf 3fs Isaiah the prophet cried to Yahweh; and he brought the shadow ten steps backward, by which it had gone down on the dial of Ahaz.
1 Chronicles 4 verses
- 1 Chronicles 7:21 יָרְד֔וּ Qal pf 3cp and Zabad his son, and Shuthelah his son, and Ezer, and Elead, whom the men of Gath who were born in the land killed, because they came down to take away their cattle.
- 1 Chronicles 11:15 וַ/יֵּרְד֡וּ conj + Qal wimpf 3mp Three of the thirty chief men went down to the rock to David, into the cave of Adullam; and the host of the Philistines were encamped in the valley of Rephaim.
- 1 Chronicles 11:22 יָרַ֞ד Qal pf 3ms Benaiah the son of Jehoiada, the son of a valiant man of Kabzeel, who had done mighty deeds, he killed the two [sons of] Ariel of Moab: he went down also and killed a lion in the midst of a pit in time of snow.
- 1 Chronicles 11:23 וַ/יֵּ֥רֶד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He killed an Egyptian, a man of great stature, five cubits high; and in the Egyptian's hand was a spear like a weaver's beam; and he went down to him with a staff, and plucked the spear out of the Egyptian's hand, and killed him with his own spear.
2 Chronicles 5 verses
- 2 Chronicles 7:1 יָֽרְדָה֙ Qal pf 3fs Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed the burnt offering and the sacrifices; and the glory of Yahweh filled the house.
- 2 Chronicles 7:3 בְּ/רֶ֣דֶת prep + Qal inf.cs All the children of Israel looked on, when the fire came down, and the glory of Yahweh was on the house; and they bowed themselves with their faces to the ground on the pavement, and worshiped, and gave thanks to Yahweh, [saying], For he is good; for his loving kindness endures for ever.
- 2 Chronicles 18:2 וַ/יֵּרֶד֩ conj + Qal wimpf 3ms After certain years he went down to Ahab to Samaria. Ahab killed sheep and oxen for him in abundance, and for the people who were with him, and moved him to go up [with him] to Ramoth-gilead.
- 2 Chronicles 20:16 רְד֣וּ Qal impv 2mp Tomorrow go you down against them: behold, they come up by the ascent of Ziz; and you shall find them at the end of the valley, before the wilderness of Jeruel.
- 2 Chronicles 22:6 יָרַ֡ד Qal pf 3ms He returned to be healed in Jezreel of the wounds which they had given him at Ramah, when he fought against Hazael king of Syria. Azariah the son of Jehoram king of Judah went down to see Jehoram the son of Ahab in Jezreel, because he was sick.
Nehemiah 3 verses
- Nehemiah 3:15 הַ/יּוֹרְד֖וֹת ptcl def.art + Qal ptcp.act fp The spring gate repaired Shallun the son of Colhozeh, the ruler of the district of Mizpah; he built it, and covered it, and set up the doors of it, the bolts of it, and the bars of it, and the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, even to the stairs that go down from the city of David.
- Nehemiah 6:3 לָ/רֶ֑דֶת וְ/יָרַדְתִּ֖י prep + Qal inf.cs conj + Qal wpf 1cs I sent messengers to them, saying, I am doing a great work, so that I can't come down: why should the work cease, while I leave it, and come down to you?
- Nehemiah 9:13 יָרַ֔דְתָּ Qal pf 2ms You came down also on Mount Sinai, and spoke with them from heaven, and gave them right ordinances and true laws, good statutes and commandments,
Job 3 verses
- Job 7:9 יוֹרֵ֥ד Qal ptcp.act ms As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, So he who goes down to Sheol shall come up no more.
- Job 17:16 תֵּרַ֑דְנָה Qal impf 3fp Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, Or descend together into the dust?"
- Job 33:24 מֵ/רֶ֥דֶת prep + Qal inf.cs Then God is gracious to him, and says, 'Deliver him from going down to the pit, I have found a ransom.'
Psalms 19 verses
- Psalms 7:16 יֵרֵֽד Qal impf 3ms The trouble he causes shall return to his own head. His violence shall come down on the crown of his own head.
- Psalms 18:9 וַ/יֵּרַ֑ד conj + Qal wimpf 3ms He bowed the heavens also, and came down. Thick darkness was under his feet.
- Psalms 22:29 יוֹרְדֵ֣י Qal ptcp.act mp cs All the rich ones of the earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down to the dust shall bow before him, Even he who can't keep his soul alive.
- Psalms 28:1 י֥וֹרְדֵי Qal ptcp.act mp cs To you, Yahweh, I call. My rock, don't be deaf to me; Lest, if you are silent to me, I would become like those who go down into the pit.
- Psalms 30:3 מ/יורדי מִ/יָּֽרְדִ/י prep + Qal ptcp.act mp cs prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs Yahweh, you have brought up my soul from Sheol. You have kept me alive, that I should not go down to the pit.
- Psalms 30:9 בְּ/רִדְתִּ֪/י prep + Qal inf.cs + sfx pers 1cs "What profit is there in my destruction, if I go down to the pit? Shall the dust praise you? Shall it declare your truth?
- Psalms 49:17 יֵרֵ֖ד Qal impf 3ms For when he dies he shall carry nothing away. His glory shall not descend after him.
- Psalms 55:15 יֵרְד֣וּ Qal impf 3mp Let death come suddenly on them. Let them go down alive into Sheol. For wickedness is in their dwelling, in the midst of them.
- Psalms 72:6 יֵ֭רֵד Qal impf 3ms He will come down like rain on the mown grass, As showers that water the earth.
- Psalms 88:4 י֣וֹרְדֵי Qal ptcp.act mp cs I am counted among those who go down into the pit. I am like a man who has no help,
- Psalms 104:8 יֵרְד֣וּ Qal impf 3mp The mountains rose, The valleys sank down, To the place which you had assigned to them.
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“to go down” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb ירד (yârad). Its earliest occurrence is Genesis 11:5. It turns up in 345 verses across 32 books, a common footprint. The verb spans 3 stems, from Qal to Hiphil. It clusters with מורד, ירד and ירדן under a shared root. See the sense tree, 345-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
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Strong's · 1890
[idiom] abundantly
Modern gloss
to go down
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown.
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Strong's H3381 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
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- distinct verses
- The word appears in 345 distinct verses.
- 32 / 39
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- The word appears in 32 of 39 Old Testament books.
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- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 130 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
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- Prophets (Nevi'im) 208 verses · 60%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 81 verses · 23%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 56 verses · 16%
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: Go down 34×, Went down 33×, Came down 32×
- American Standard Version: Went down 36×, Go down 33×, Came down 24×
- Berean Standard Bible: Went down 37×, Go down 28×, Came down 23×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Went down 50×, Go down 40×, And 39×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3381 across 386 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 131 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 H3381 across 385 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 136 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 H3381 across 372 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 134 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 7 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3381 across 480 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 105 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
34 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 Hophal (the passive of Hiphil).
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 34 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. יָרַד Ex 19:18 +; יְרַד Ju 5:13(×2) (but read יָרַד or יֵרֵד); רַד 19:11 (read יָרַד), etc.; Impf. יֵרֵד Gn 42:38 +; וַיֵּ֫רֶד Gn 11:5 +; וַיֵּרַ֑ד 2 S 22:10 + 2 times; 3 fs. (אֵשׁ) תֵּ֫רֶד 2 K 1:10, 12; תּרַד Je 13:17 La 3:48; תֵּרֵ֔ד Is 34:5; 63:14; תֵּרֵ֑ד Ez 26:11 (יוֹרִיד Vrss Co); וַתֵּ֫רֶד Gn 24:16 + 7 times; 2 ms. תֵּרֵד Gn 26:2 + 5 times + 1 S 20:19, where read תִּפָּקֵד We Dr, cf. 𝔊 𝔖 𝔗 1 s. אֵרֵד Gn 37:35 + 3 times; וָאֵרֵד Ex 3:8 + 3 times; cohort. אֵרְדָה־נָא Gn 18:21; יֵרְדוּ 1 S 13:12 + 4 times; וַיֵּרְדוּ Gn 42:3 + 19 times; 3 f. pl. תֵּרַדְנָה Je 14:17 + 2 times; 1 pl. נֵרֵד Gn 43:5; cohort. נֵרְדָה Gn 11:7 + 2 times; וַנֵּ֫רֶד 2 K 10:13; Imv. רֵד Ex 19:21 +; רְדָה Gn 45:9 Ez 32:19; רֵ֑דָה 2 K 1:9, 11; fs. רְדִי Je 48:18 Is 47:1; mpl. רְדוּ Gn 42:2 + 5 times; Inf. abs. יָרֹד Gn 43:20; cstr. רֶ֫דֶת Gn 44:26 +; (מֵ)רְדָה Gn 46:3 (v. Köi. 402); sf. רִדְתִּי ψ 30:10, etc. (in ψ 30:4 read Kt מִיּוֹרְדֵי, so 𝔊 𝔖 Che Bae, v. Ol§§ 160 b, 245 d); Pt. יוֹרֵד Ju 9:36 +; fs. יֹרְדָה La 1:16; (הַ)יֹּרֶ֫דֶת Ec 3:21 1 S 25:30, etc.;— e.g. Exodus 19:18
- 1.
- a. come or go down: from (מִן) a mountain Ex 19:14; 32:1, 15 (all E), 34:29(×2) (JE), Dt 9:15; 10:5 Nu 20:28 (P) +; abs. Ex 19:21, 24 (J), v 25 (J; c. אֶל pers.); from the air, of birds, sq. עַל Gn 15:11 (JE). e.g. Exodus 19:14
- b. go down (usually from mountain or hill-country into plain), to battle, abs. Ju 5:14; sq. לָעֵמֶק Ju 1:34; sq. לַשְּׁעָרִים Ju 5:11; sq. אֶל v 10, 11, cf. 1 S 17:8 (sq. אֶל pers.); sq. לִקְרַאת Ju 7:24; sq. אַחֲרֵי pers. 1 S 14:36; sq. ב loc. Ju 7:9; בַּמִּלְחָמָה יֵרֵד וְנִסְפָּה 1 S 26:10, cf. 29:4; 30:24; of single combat, וַיֵּרֶד אֵלָיו בַּשָּׁ֑בֶט 2 S 23:21 = 1 Ch 11:23. e.g. Judges 5:14
- c. go down to (acc.) threshing-floor, Ru 3:3, 5; (from David’s palace) to Uriah’s house (אֶל) 2 S 11:9, 10(×2), 13; from temple to (acc.) king’s house Je 36:12 (+ עַל־לִשְׁכַּת הַסֹּפֵר); רֵד בֵּית־מֶלֶךְ יְהוּדָח 22:1, etc. e.g. Ruth 3:3
- d. go down (abs.) from Palestine to Egypt Gn 42:3 (E), v 38 (J) + 6 times JE; †sq. אֵלַי Gn 45:9 (E); sq. מִצְרַ֫יְמָה Gn 46:3, 4 (E), 12:10; 26:2 (both J), Nu 20:15 (JE); sq. מִצְרַיִם Jos 24:4 (E), Gn 43:15 (J), Is 30:2; 31:1; 52:4; sq. שָׁ֫מָּה Gn 42:2 (E)†; so to Philistine cities Ju 14:19; 16:31 1 S 13:20 Am 6:2. e.g. Genesis 42:3
- e. from Jerusalem, abs. Ju 1:9 1 K 1:25 Ne 6:3 2 Ch 20:16 (to battle); to Jezreel 2 K 8:21 = 9:26 = 2 Ch 22:6; to Samaria 1 K 22:2 = 2 Ch 18:2; (to Gihon) 1 Ki 1:38, etc. e.g. Judges 1:9
- f. from altar ירד מֵעֲשׂוֹת הַחַטָּאת Lv 9:22 (P); from chariot, c. מֵעַל Ju 4:15; from ass, c. מֵעַל 1 S 25:23; from throne, c. מֵעַל Ez 26:16, abs. Is 47:1, cf. רְדִי מִכָּבוֹד Je 48:18; from ships, c. מִן Ez 27:29; from bed, c. מִן 2 K 1:4, 6, 16 (all opp. עלה). e.g. Leviticus 9:22
- g. go down הָעַ֫יְנָה Gn 24:16, 45 (J); sq. לִרְחֹץ עַל הַיְאֹר Ex 2:5 (E), cf. (abs.) 2 K 5:14; sq. acc. הַסֶּלַע 1 S 23:25; יוֹרְדֵי הַיָּם Is 42:10; יוֹרְדֵי הַיָּם בָּאֳנִיּוֹת ψ 107:23; abs. (into pit or well) 2 S 23:30 = 1 Ch 11:22, sq. שָׁם (i.e. בְּאֵר) 2 S 17:18.—וְיָרַדְתִּי Ju 11:37, read וְרַדְתִּי (√ רוד, wander about), RS in Bla. e.g. Genesis 24:16
- h. = sink, in water יָֽרְדוּ בִמְצוֹלוֹת כְּמוֹ־אָ֑בֶן Ex 15:5 (song in E); לְקִצְבֵי הָרִים יָרַדְתִּי Jon 2:7; more gen., opp. rising, יַעֲלוּ הָרִים יֵֽרְדוּ בְקָעוֹת ψ 104:8 mountains rise, valleys sink; יַעֲלוּ שָׁמַיִם יֵרְדוּ תְהוֹמוֹת 107:26. e.g. Exodus 15:5
- i. go down to Sheʾôl: †sq. שְׁא֫וֹלָה Gn 37:35 (J; + אֶל־בְּנִי), Nu 16:30, 33 (JE), Ez 31:15, 17; sq. שְׁאוֹל Ez 32:27 ψ 55:16 Jb 7:6 (opp. עלה); בַּדֵּי שְׁאֹל תֵּרַדְנָה Jb 17:16; abs. Is 5:14 Ez 32:19 (‖ הָשְׁכְּבָה), v 21, 30, ψ 49:15 (sq. אַחֲרָיו); יָֽרְדוּ עֲרֵלִים Ez 32:24; sq. שַׁחַת Jb 33:24, אֶל־שַׁחַת ψ 30:10; sq. בּוֹר ψ 30:4 Qr (Kt יורדי); יוֹרְדֵי אֶל־אַבְנֵי־בוֹר Is 14:19†; יוֹרְדֵי בוֹר ψ 28:1 Ez 26:20(×2) (‖ אֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּיּוֹת) + 11 times (v. בּוֹר); †יוֹרְדֵי עָפָר ψ 22:30; יוֹרְדֵי דוּמָה 115:17 (‖ הַמֵּתִים); רַגְלֶיהָ יֹרְדֹת מָ֑וֶת Pr 5:5, cf. 7:27 (‖ דַּרְכֵי שְׁאוֹל); note also מִי יוֹדֵעַ … רוּחַ הַבְּהֵמָה הַיֹּרֶדֶת הִיא לְמַטָּה לָאָרֶץ Ec 3:21 (opp. הָעֹלָה הִיא לְמָ֑עְלָה; read חֲיֹרדת, הַעֹלָה, with Vrss, see VB). e.g. Genesis 37:35
- j. fig. יֹרֵד בַּבֶּ֑כִי Is 15:3 going down (dissolving) in tears (‖ יְיֵלֵיל; cf. 3 c). e.g. Isaiah 15:3
- k. = be prostrated, abs., of horses and riders Hg 2:22, cf. Is 34:7, perhaps also Je 48:15; 50:27 (+ לַטָּ֑בַח); forest Is 32:19 Zc 11:2; city Dt 20:20 La 1:9; wall Dt 28:52; nation תֵּרֵד מַ֫טָּה מָ֑טָּה Dt 28:43 (opp. עלה); מַצֵּבוֹה Ez 26:11 + לָאָרֶץ (where Co ויחרדו). e.g. Haggai 2:22
- 2. of divine manifestations: descend, of י׳ in theoph. [= על ההר]יָרַד עָלָיו י׳ בָּאֵשׁ Ex 19:11, 18 (E), v 20 (J; אֶל־רֹאשׁ הָהָר), cf. Ne 9:13; יֵרֵד י׳ צְבָאוֹת לִצְבֹּא עַל־הַר־צִיּוֹן Is 31:4; abs. Gn 11:5, 7; 18:21 Ex 3:8 (all J), Nu 11:17 (JE), 2 S 22:10 = ψ 18:10 (cf. 144:5), Mi 1:3 Is 63:19; 64:2; וַיֵּרֶד י׳ בֶּעָנָן Ex 34:5 Nu 11:25, cf. 12:5 (all JE); of pillar of cloud Ex 33:9 (JE); מִ׳ עָלָה־שָׁמַיִם וַיֵּרַ֡ד Pr 30:4; of angels on סֻלָּם; עֹלִים וְיֹרְדִים בּוֹ Gn 28:12 (E). e.g. Exodus 19:11
- 3. of inanimate things:
- a. hail c. עַל pers. Ex 9:19 (J); dew c. עַל loc. Nu 11:9 (JE), ψ 133:3; rain (as אָבָק and עָפָר), sq. מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם + על pers. Dt 28:24, so in sim. of future king יֵרֵד כְּמָטָר עַל־גֵּז ψ 72:6; of גֶּשֶׁם and שֶׁלֶג, c. מִן הַשָּׁמַיִם Is 55:10; manna (c. עַל loc.) Nu 11:9 (JE); fire from (מִן) heaven 2 K 1:10(×2), 12(×2), 14 2 Ch 7:1, abs. 2 Ch 7:3. e.g. Exodus 9:19
- b. waters, flowing down הַנַּחַל הַיֹּרֵד מִן־הָהָר Dt 9:21, cf. Jos 3:13 (sq. מִלְמָ֑עְלָה), v 16; sq. עַל־יַם הָעֲרָבָה v 16; עַל־הָעֲרָבָה Ez 47:8; sq. מִן 47:1. e.g. Deuteronomy 9:21
- c. tears, פַּלְגֵי־מַיִם יָֽרְדוּ עֵינָ֑י ψ 119:36, and so La 3:48; also עֵינִי יֹרְדָה מַיִם La 1:16, and so Je 9:17; 13:17; 14:17 (cf. also Is 15:3, 1 j). e.g. Psalms 119:36
- d. of oil descending upon (על) beard, etc. ψ 133:2(×2). e.g. Psalms 133:2
- e. of shadow on dial 2 K 20:11 = Is 38:8(×2). e.g. 2 Kings 20:11
- f. of boundary going down (from or to a place) Jos 16:3 (JE), elsewhere P, Nu 34:11(×2), 12 Jos 15:10; 16:7; 17:9; 18:13, 16. e.g. Joshua 16:3
- g. come down, abs. of headdresses, in sign of humiliation Je 13:18. e.g. Jeremiah 13:18
- h. pride of power Ez 30:6. e.g. Ezekiel 30:6
- i. of calamity מֵאֵת י׳ Mi 1:12; עַל־קָדְקְדוֹ הֲמָסוֹ יֵרֵד ψ 7:17; of sword descending on (על) Edom Is 34:5. e.g. Micah 1:12
- j. fig. of words of talebearer; יָֽרְדוּ חַדְרֵי־בָּ֑טֶן Pr 18:8 = 26:22.—Vid. also supr. 1 k. e.g. Proverbs 18:8
Hiphil
- Pf. 3 ms. הוֹרִד 2 K 16:17; וְהוֹרִיד consec. Am 3:11 (We וְהוּרַד); 2 ms. וְהוֹרַדְתָּ֫ 1 K 2:9; 2 fs. sf. הוֹרַדְתֵּנִי Jos 2:18 (v. Baern. and Köi 412); הוֹרִידוּ 1 S 6:15 La 2:10 etc.; Impf. 3 ms. וַיּוֹרֶד Ju 7:5 + 5 times (+ 1 K 6:32 Klo, who reads וַיֹּרֶד for וַיָּרֶד, v. רדד); sf. יוֹרִידֵנִי Ob 3; יוֹרִדֵהוּ 1 S 30:16 1 K 17:23; וַיֹּרִדֵם 1 K 18:40; 2 ms. וְלֹא תּוֹרֵד 1 K 2:6; sf. (הֲ)תוֹרִדֵנִי 1 S 30:15, תּוֹרִדֵם ψ 55:24 etc.; Imv. ms. הוֹרֵד Ex 33:5 + 2 times; sf. הוֹרִדֵהוּ Ez 32:18; הוֹרִידֵמוֹ ψ 59:12; fs. הוֹרִידִי La 2:18; mpl. הוֹרִידוּ Gn 43:7, 11; sf. הוֹרִדֻהוּ Gn 44:21; Inf. cstr. לְהוֹרִיד Gn 37:25; sf. הוֹרִדִי Ez 31:16; Pt. מוֹרִיד 1 S 2:6; מֹרִיד 2 S 22:48;—cause to come or go down: e.g. 2 Kings 16:17
- 1.
- a. bring down (to Egypt), c. acc. pers. + שָׁ֫מָּה Gn 39:1 (J); + הֵ֫נָּה 45:13 (E); + אֵלַי 44:21; abs. 43:7; c. acc. rei 43:11; + מִצְרַ֫יְמָה 37:25; abs. 43:22 (all J); from Canaan to desert Dt 1:25 (sq. אֵלֵינוּ); to (אֶל) Amalekites 1 S 30:15(×2); abs. v 16; bring down (obj. pers. vel rei) אֶל־הַמַּיִם Ju 7:4, 5; אֶל־נַ֫חַל Dt 21:4 1 K 18:40; יָ֫מָּה 1 K 5:23; to Gaza (עַזָּ֫תָה) Ju 16:21; from Jerusalem to Gihon, c. עַל (Qr אֶל) 1 K 1:33; to valley of Jehosh. (אֶל) Jo 4:2; from (מִן) temple (to king’s house) 2 K 11:19 = 2 Ch 23:20; from (מֵעַל) altar 1 K 1:53; from (מִן) upper chamber, sq. הַבַּ֫יְתָה 1 K 17:23; from (מִן) the heavens Am 9:2; Edom, from (מִן) nest in rocks Je 49:16 Ob 4; cf. of Isr. כְּעוֹף הַשָּׁמַיִם Ho 7:12; c. acc. of limit (אֶרֶץ) Ob 3; bring down (from Babylon) into (בְּ) ships Is 43:14 (v. VB). e.g. Genesis 39:1
- b. send down rain (הַגֶּשֶׁם) Ez 34:26, cf. Jo 2:23; = cause to flow down, obj. spittle, וַיּוֹרֶד רִירוֹ אֶל־זְקָנוֹ 1 S 21:14; tears הוֹרִידִי כַנַּחל דִּמְעָה La 2:18; water-streams וַיּוֹרֶד כַּנְּהָרוֹת מָ֑יִם ψ 78:16. e.g. Ezekiel 34:26
- c. = lay prostrate, prostrate הוֹרִיד מִמֵּךְ עֻזֵּךְ Am 3:11 (where however We reads וְהוּרַד) cf. Pr 21:22; וְאוֹרִיד כַּאבִּיר יוֹשְׁבִים Is 10:13; of God’s casting down peoples ψ 56:8 Is 63:6 (sq. לָאָרֶץ); מוֹרִיד עַמִּים תַּחְתֵּנוּ 2 S 22:48 (וַיַּדְבֵּר in ‖ ψ 18:48); so perhaps Babylonians, like lambs, לִטְבֿוֹחַ Je 51:40; so ψ 59:12 (si vera l.; 𝔖 וַהֲנִידֵמוֹ make them vagabonds, v. LagProph. Chald. (1872), xlviii. VB Hup Now Che Bae Dr2 S 15:20). e.g. Amos 3:11
- d. bring down to Sheʾôl י׳ מֵמִית וּמְחַיֶּ֑ה מוֹרִיד שְׁאוֹל וַיָּ֑עַל׃ 1 S 2:6; sq. שְׁא(וֹ)ל also 1 K 2:6, 9; sq. שְׁא֫וֹלָה (obj. grey hair) Gn 42:38; 44:29, 31 (all J); cf. Ez 26:20; 31:16; 32:18; sq. לִבְאֵר שַׁחַת ψ 55:24; לַשַּׁחַת Ez 28:8. e.g. 1 Samuel 2:6
- 2. take down (from cart) 1 S 6:15; the sea from upon (מֵעַל) the brazen oxen 2 K 16:17; corpse from (מִן) tree Jos 8:29, and (מֵעַל) 10:27 (both JE); the מִשְׁכָּן Nu 1:51 (P); the פָּרֹכֶת Nu 4:5 (P); take off ornaments מֵעָלֶיךָ Ex 33:5 (JE). e.g. 1 Samuel 6:15
- 3. let down וַתֹּ֫רֶד כַּדָּהּ עַל־יָדָהּ Gn 24:18, so, with מֵעָלֶיהָ v 46, to give one a drink; וַיּוֹרִדוּ אִישׁ אֶת־אַמְתַּחְתּוֹ אָ֑רְצָה Gn 44:11 (all J); obj. pers. Jos 2:18, בַּחֶבֶל בְּעַד הַחַלּוֹן v 15 (both JE); בְּעַד הַחַלּוֹן 1 S 19:12; cf. also הוֹרִידוּ לָאָרֶץ רֹאשָׁן בְּתוּלֹת יְרוּשָׁלַםִ La 2:10 the virgins of Jerusalem have bowed down their heads to the ground. e.g. Genesis 24:18
Hophal
- Pf. הוּרַד Gn 39:1 + 2 times + 1 S 30:24 Kt (Qr Qal Pt.); וְהוּרַד consec. Zc 10:11; 2 ms. וְהוּרַדְתָּ֫ Ez 31:18; Impf. 2 ms. תּוּרַד Is 14:15;— e.g. Genesis 39:1
- 1. be brought down מִצְרַ֫יְמָה Gn 39:1 (J); בַּמִּלְחָמָה 1 S 30:24 Kt (v. supr.); to She’ôl הוּרַד שְׁאוֹל גְּאוֹנֶךָ Is 14:11 (of king of Babylon); אֶל־שְׁאוֹל תּוּרַד אֶל־יַרְכְּתֵי־בוֹר v 15; וְהוּרַדְתָּ֫ אֶל־אֶרֶץ תַּחְתִּית Ez 31:18; וְהוּרַד גְּאוֹן אַשּׁוּר Zc 10:11.—In Am 3:11 We reads וְהוּרַד ממך (v. Hiph. supr.) e.g. Genesis 39:1
- 2. be taken down, of the מִשְׁכָּן Nu 10:7 (P). e.g. Numbers 10:7
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. come or go down, descend (NH id.; MI32 וארד and רד; Assyrian arâdu, DlHWB 240; Arabic وَرَدَ come to, arrive at, also descend; Ethiopic ወረደ descend; Sab. ורד and הורד id., DHM in MV)—
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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.
יָרַד
- (b. h.) to move about, run; esp. to go down; י׳ ל־ to enter; י׳ מ־ to leave. Tanḥ. B’ḥuck. 5 (ref. to וירדתי, Jud. XI, 37) וכי … יוֹרֵד על ההרים … עולים להרים does one go down on the mountains, do not men go up to &c.?; ib. הניחני ואֵרֵד אצל ב"ד (ed. Bub. 7 ואלך) give me leave that I may go down to the court-house; Yalk. Jud. 67. Men. 109ᵇ מה זה שלא י׳ לה כך when this one (Shimei) who was not permitted to enter into it (the office) became so jealous, היוֹרֵד לה וכ׳ how much more so is he who once has entered it (and is to be ousted). Ib. כל האומר לי לֵירֵד ממנה וכ׳ whoever would ask me to resign it (the office), I would throw at him &c.—Taan. 8ᵇ יָרְדוּ גשמים it rains. Ib. 8ᵃ אין גשמים יוֹרְדִים וכ׳ the rain falls only for the sake of the men of faith. Cant. R. to I, 2ᵇ מה מים יורדין וכ׳ as the water (rain) comes down in drops.—י׳ לנכסי to take possession of, seize, administer property. B. Mets. 38ᵇ היוֹרֵד לנ׳ שבוים he who takes possession of the property of captives. Tosef. Keth. VIII, 2, sq.; a. fr.—י׳ מנכסיו to be compelled to leave an estate, to become poor (cmp. B. Mets. 38ᵇ היוֹרֵד לנ׳ שבוים he who takes possession of the property of captives. Tosef. Keth. VIII, 2, sq.; a. fr.—י׳ מנכסיו to be compelled to leave an estate, to become poor (cmp. דִּלְדִּל). Gen. R. s. 71; Lam. R. to III, 4; Ned. 64ᵇ; a. fr.—(קרבן) עוֹלֶה ויוֹרֵד a sacrifice of higher or lesser value according to pecuniary conditions (Lev. V, 6—11). Shebu. 21ᵃ. Hor. II, 7 (9ᵃ); a. fr.—[For other idiomatic uses, v. עָלָה.]—Part. pass. יָרוּד q. v. e.g. Judges 11:37
- to let down, bring down; to lower. Taan. 8ᵃ בשעה שהשמים … מִלְּהוֹרִיד וכ׳ ed. (Ms. M., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l.) when the heavens are locked up so as not to let down rain. Lev. R. s. 1 ירד שה׳ את התורה Moses is surnamed Yered (I Chr. IV, 18) because he brought down the Law; שה׳ את חשכינה וכ׳ he caused the Divine Presence to come down &c. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᵈ top לא הוֹרִידוּ אותו מגדולתו they did not remove him from his position. Sot. 13ᵇ (ref. to Gen. XXXIX, 1) א"ת הוּרַד אלא הוֹרִיד שה׳ וכ׳ read not ‘he was brought down’, but ‘he did bring down’, for he (Joseph) was the cause of the removal of the astronomers of Pharaoh from their positions.—Y. B. Kam. IV, 4ᵇ top הוֹרִידָן מנכסיהן he drove them out of their estates (cmp. Bab. B. Kam. 38ᵃ); a. v. fr.—ה׳ לנכסי (v. supra) to appoint as administrator. B. Mets. 38ᵇ מוֹרִידִין קרוב לנ׳ שבוי we may appoint a relative (presumptive heir) an administrator of the estate of a captive; a. fr.—לא מעלה ולא מוריד neither raises nor lowers, i.e. has no effect or influence. Ḥull. 45ᵇ. Gitt. 52ᵃ, a. e. דברי חלומות לא מעלין ולא מוֹרִידִין dreams must not be regarded. Men. V, 6, a. e. מעלה ומוריד moves upward and downward.—[Tosef. Par. IX (VIII), 6 שהוא מוריד, v. מוֹרִיר.]—מעלין … ולא מורידין, v. עָלָה. e.g. 1 Chronicles 4:18
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Forms in the corpus
The 263 distinct written forms H3381 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; 203 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 330 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 345 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 11:5
- Exodus 2:5
- Leviticus 9:22
- Numbers 1:51
- Deuteronomy 1:25
- Joshua 2:15
- Judges 1:9
- Ruth 3:3
- 1 Samuel 2:6
- 2 Samuel 5:17
- 1 Kings 1:25
- 2 Kings 1:4
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.
