יָעַד
yâʻad · yaw-ad'
to fix upon (by agreement or appointment); by implication, to meet (at a stated time), to summon (to trial), to direct (in a certain quarter or position), to engage (for marriage)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to fix upon (by agreement or appointment); by implication, to meet (at a stated time), to summon (to trial), to direct (in a certain quarter or position), to engage (for marriage)
- to fix upon (by agreement or appointment)
- by implication, to meet (at a stated time), to summon (to trial), to direct (in a certain quarter or position), to engage (for marriage)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: agree,(maxke an) appoint(-ment, a time), assemble (selves), betroth, gather (selves, together), meet (together), set (a time).
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- 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 › to see and know › the doorway, the way in
The hand that works that works to see and know of the doorway, the way in.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָעַד 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
29 occurrences · 29 OT · 0 NT · 27 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- where i will meet4 · 14%
- and there i will meet2 · 7%
- that were assembled2 · 7%
- over her? for who is like me? and who will appoint me the time2 · 7%
- who hath betrothed1 · 3%
- and if he have betrothed1 · 3%
- shall assemble1 · 3%
- shall gather1 · 3%
- that are gathered together1 · 3%
- are gathered together1 · 3%
- of them that gathered themselves together1 · 3%
- were met together1 · 3%
- which he had appointed1 · 3%
- let us meet1 · 3%
- let us meet together1 · 3%
- for they had made an appointment1 · 3%
- who shall set1 · 3%
- were assembled1 · 3%
- were set1 · 3%
- there hath he appointed1 · 3%
- is set1 · 3%
- they be agreed1 · 3%
- and who hath appointed1 · 3%
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.