יָלַד
yâlad · yaw-lad'
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
- to bear young
- causatively, to beget
- medically, to act as midwife
- specifically, to show lineage
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- לLamed30
Picture: shepherd's staff or goad
- Concrete
- staff · goad · yoke · cattle prod
- Extended
- authority · to lead · to teach · to bind · toward
- דDalet4
Picture: tent door hanging down
- Concrete
- door · curtain · entrance
- Extended
- a way in or out · moving back and forth · a path · hanging
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › authority, the one who leads › the doorway, the way in
The hand that works of authority, the one who leads of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָלַד above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
496 occurrences · 496 OT · 0 NT · 237 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- begat115 · 37%
- bare36 · 12%
- and begat35 · 11%
- and bare20 · 6%
- he begat17 · 5%
- and she bare14 · 4%
- were born9 · 3%
- born6 · 2%
- which were born6 · 2%
- was born5 · 2%
- again, and bare5 · 2%
- that begat4 · 1%
- she bare4 · 1%
- and bear4 · 1%
- as of a woman in travail4 · 1%
- is born4 · 1%
- and he begat4 · 1%
- which bare3 · 1%
- which she bare3 · 1%
- that bare3 · 1%
- she also bare3 · 1%
- that was born2 · 1%
- shall bear2 · 1%
- bear2 · 1%
- and they bare2 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.