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Lexicon :: Strong's H3205 - yālaḏ

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יָלַד
Transliteration
yālaḏ
Pronunciation
yaw-lad'
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Part of Speech
verb
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive root
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TWOT Reference: 867

Strong’s Definitions

יָלַד yâlad, yaw-lad'; a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage:—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).


KJV Translation Count — Total: 498x

The KJV translates Strong's H3205 in the following manner: beget (201x), bare (110x), born (79x), bring forth (25x), bear (23x), travail (16x), midwife (10x), child (8x), delivered (5x), borne (3x), birth (2x), labour (2x), brought up (2x), miscellaneous (12x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 498x
The KJV translates Strong's H3205 in the following manner: beget (201x), bare (110x), born (79x), bring forth (25x), bear (23x), travail (16x), midwife (10x), child (8x), delivered (5x), borne (3x), birth (2x), labour (2x), brought up (2x), miscellaneous (12x).
  1. to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail

    1. (Qal)

      1. to bear, bring forth

        1. of child birth

        2. of distress (simile)

        3. of wicked (behaviour)

      2. to beget

    2. (Niphal) to be born

    3. (Piel)

      1. to cause or help to bring forth

      2. to assist or tend as a midwife

      3. midwife (participle)

    4. (Pual) to be born

    5. (Hiphil)

      1. to beget (a child)

      2. to bear (fig. - of wicked bringing forth iniquity)

    6. (Hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive)

    7. (Hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יָלַד yâlad, yaw-lad'; a primitive root; to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage:—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).
STRONGS H3205: Abbreviations
יָלַד 497 verb bear, bring forth, beget (Late Hebrew id.; Aramaic יְלִיד, יְלֵיד, bdb040801; Arabic bdb040802 bear, bring forth, so Ethiopic bdb040803 Assyrian alâdu, COTGloss) —
Qal Perfect יָלַד Genesis 4:18 (3 times in verse) + 16 times; יָלָ֑ד Jeremiah 17:11; וְיָלַד consecutive Psalm 7:15; suffix יְלָֽדְךָ Deuteronomy 32:18; 2nd person masculine singular suffix ילדתני Jeremiah 2:27 Kt; Qr יְלִדְתָּנוּ (Köi. 410 Ges§ 70, 2. R. 4); 1st person singular suffix יְלִדְתִּ֫יךָ Psalm 2:7; יְלִדְתִּ֫יהוּ Numbers 11:12, etc.; Imperfect יֵלָד(יֹום) Proverbs 27:1; 3rd person feminine singular תֵּלֵד Genesis 17:17 + 6 times; וַתֵּ֫לֶד Genesis 4:1 + 61 times; 2nd person feminine singular תֵּלְדִי Genesis 3:16; אֵלֵד Genesis 18:13; וָאֵלֵד 1 Kings 3:17; יֵֽֽֽלְדוּ Isaiah 65:23; 3rd person feminine plural תֵּלַדְנָה Jeremiah 29:6; וַתֵּלַדְנָה Ezekiel 23:4; וַתֵּלַדְןָ Genesis 30:39, etc.; Infinitive absolute יָלֹד Job 15:35; construct לֵדָה Hosea 9:11 + 3 times; לֶ֫דֶת Genesis 4:2 + 10 times; לָלַת 1 Samuel 4:19 (Köi, 402, but probably text error Dr); suffix לִדְתִּי 1 Kings 3:18, etc.; Participle active יֹלֵד Proverbs 17:21; Jeremiah 30:6, etc.; feminine יוֺלֵדָה Hosea 13:13 + 12 times; יֹלֶ֫דֶת Genesis 17:19 + 4 times; יֹלַדְתְּ Genesis 16:11 + 2 times (Köi. 404 f.; perhaps יֹלֶדֶת intended by Kt, compare Sta§ 213 b); suffix Proverbs 23:25; יוֺלַדְתּוֺ Proverbs 17:25; etc.; plural יֹלְדוֺת Jeremiah 16:3; Passive participle יָלוּד 1 Kings 3:26, 27; construct יְלוּד Job 14:1 + 2 times; plural יְלוּדִים 1 Chronicles 14:4; —
1. bear, bring froth:
a. (a mother a child,) so commonly, approximately + 208 times; followed by accusative Genesis 3:16; Genesis 4:1 & constantly; accusative omitted Genesis 6:2 etc. = be delivered of a child, 1 Kings 3:17, 18; 2 Kings 19:3 = Isaiah 37:3 (in proverb with negative, i.e. human power exhausted); of animals Genesis 30:39; Genesis 31:8 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 14:5; Jeremiah 17:11 (bird laying eggs, or hatching out young), Ezekiel 31:6; Job 39:1, 2; but also of whole process of labour (compare חול) וַתְּקַשׁ בְּלִדְתָּהּ Genesis 35:16 compare Genesis 35:17, Genesis 38:27, 28, compare 1 Samuel 14:19; Jeremiah 31:18; Micah 5:2 (of a man, as preposterous, Jeremiah 30:6, compare Moses as mother of Israel Numbers 11:12).
b. hence in simile of distress Micah 4:9, 10; Isaiah 13:8; Isaiah 21:3; Isaiah 42:14; Jeremiah 6:24; Jeremiah 13:21; Jeremiah 22:23; Jeremiah 30:6; Jeremiah 49:24; Jeremiah 50:43; Psalm 48:7, compare Hosea 13:13; ילד עלבֿרכים (StaZAW 1886, 143 ff.) Genesis 30:3; Genesis 50:23 (compare Job 3:12).
c. figurative of wicked וְהָרָה עָמָל וְיָלַד שָׁ֑קֶר Psalm 7:15 compare Job 15:35 also Isaiah 33:11; of Israelites, bringing froth wind (of vain efforts for deliverance) Isaiah 26:18; כְּפֹר שָׁמַיִם מִי יְלָדוֺ Job 38:29; of Tyre as mother of her inhabitants Isaiah 23:4 of Jerusalem Isaiah 51:18; Isaiah 54:1; Isaiah 66:7, 8; Ezekiel 16:20; Israel bearing disloyal children Hosea 5:7; Jerusalem and Samaria, as Oholibah and Oholah Ezekiel 23:37; of Babylon Jeremiah 50:12; of a day, as producing events לֹאתֵֿדַע מַה יֵּ֫לֶד יוֺם Proverbs 27:1; perhaps of God (figurative of rock צוּר), as mother of Israel bringing forth with labour Deuteronomy 32:18 yet see 2.
2. less often beget:
a. literal, approximately + 22 times, always with accusative; in Hexateuch a mark of J; Genesis 4:18 (3 times in verse); Genesis 10:8, 13, 15, 24 (twice in verse); Genesis 10:26 = 1 Chronicles 1:10, 11, 13, 18 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 1:20, Genesis 22:23; Genesis 25:3 (Deuteronomy 32:18 & Numbers 11:12 E are dubious; P uses Hiph.), elsewhere Proverbs 17:21; Proverbs 23:23, 24; Daniel 11:6.
b. beget, figurative Psalm 2:7 of י׳'s formally installing king into theocratic rights.
3. Zechariah 13:3 (twice in verse), of both parents (literally); Passive participle + 3 times = child 1 Kings 3:26, 27 where mother is named, 1 Chronicles 14:4 where father named.
Niph. Perfect נוֺלַד 1 Chronicles 2:3 + 6 times + הנּוֺלַדֿ Genesis 21:3 according to points, but read Participle (see Di); נוּ֯לְּדוּ 1 Chronicles 3:5; 1 Chronicles 20:8 (compare Ol§ 70, 2, R. 5); Imperfect יִוָּלֵד Genesis 17:17 + 4 times; יִוָּ֑לֶד Isaiah 66:8; וַיִּוָּלֵד Genesis 4:18 + 2 times, etc.; Infinitive הִוָּ֑לֶד Genesis 21:5; הִוָּֽלְדוֹ Ecclesiastes 7:1; הִוָּֽֽֽלְדָהּ Hosea 2:5 [Hosea 2:3]; Participle נוֺלָד 1 Kings 13:2 + 3 times (Genesis 21:3 see above); נוֺלָדִים Genesis 48:5; 1 Chronicles 7:21; — be born: of human beings, followed by לְ (born to such and such a man), Genesis 4:18; Genesis 10:1; Genesis 17:17; Genesis 21:3, 5; Genesis 46:20; Genesis 48:5; Numbers 26:60; Deuteronomy 23:9 [Deuteronomy 23:8]; 2 Samuel 3:2 (Qr), 2 Samuel 5:13; 2 Samuel 14:27; 1 Chronicles 2:3, 9; 1 Chronicles 3:1, 4, 5; 1 Chronicles 20:6, 8; 1 Chronicles 22:9; 1 Chronicles 26:6; Job 1:2 compare 1 Kings 13:2; without לְ, Job 3:3; Job 38:21; Psalm 78:6; 1 Chronicles 7:21; Ecclesiastes 7:1 (טוֹבמִשֶּׁמֶן שֵׁם טוֹב הִוָּֽלְדֽוֹ׃ מִיּוֹם וְיוֹם); metaphor of Israel (under figure of unfaithful wife) Hosea 2:5 [Hosea 2:3]; of nation, גּוֺי, Isaiah 66:8; people, עַם, Psalm 22:32; of animals Leviticus 22:27; Deuteronomy 15:19; Participle כָּלנָֿשִׁים וְהַנּוֺלָד מֵהֶם Ezra 10:3; with predicate or appositive on which emphasis rests, רָ֑שׁ נ׳ Ecclesiastes 4:14 he was born poor; אֹהֵב הָרֵ֑ע וְאָח לְצָרָה יִוָּלֵד Proverbs 17:17; עַיִר פרא אדם יִוָּלֵד Job 11:12; Job 15:7.
Pi. Infinitive יַלֶּדְכֶן Exodus 1:16 Participle absolute מְיַלֶּדֶת Genesis 35:17 + 2 times; plural absolute מְיִלְּדוֺת Exodus 1:15 + 5 times in Exodus 1; — cause (or help) to bring forth, namely, assist or tend as midwife Exodus 1:16 followed by accusative; elsewhere only Participle feminine as substantive = midwife; Genesis 35:17 (E), Genesis 38:28 (J), Exodus 1:15, 17, 18, 19 (twice in verse); Exodus 1:20, 21 (E).
Pu. Perfect יֻלַּד Genesis 4:26 + 13 times; יוּלַּד Judges 18:29; יֻלָּד֨ Genesis 41:50; יוּלָּ֑ד Job 5:7; יֻלְּדוּ Genesis 6:1 + 4 times + 2 Samuel 3:2 Kt (Qr וַיִּוָּֽלְדוּ); יֻלָּ֑דוּ Psalm 90:2, etc.; Participle (? compare Köi. 433; Ges§ 52, 2, R. 6) הַיוּלָּד Judges 13:8 (Böii. p. 244 passive Qal); i.q. [the same as] Niph. be born, followed by לְ of father Genesis 4:26; Genesis 6:1; Genesis 10:21, 25; Genesis 24:15 (all J), Genesis 41:50 (E), Genesis 35:26; Genesis 36:5; Genesis 46:22, 27 (all P), Judges 18:29; 2 Samuel 3:2, 5; 2 Samuel 21:20, 22; 1 Chronicles 1:19; Jeremiah 20:15; followed by לְ before grandmother's name Ruth 4:17 compare לָ֫נוּ Isaiah 9:5; followed by לְ of purpose, destiny, אדם לעמל יוּלָּד֑ Job 5:7; יֻלְּדוּ עַלבִּֿרְכֵי יוֺסֵף Genesis 50:23 (E; בִּימֵי יו׳, cit. Di) denoting recognition of children as his; no preposition Jeremiah 20:14; Jeremiah 22:26, compare Judges 13:8 (see above); figurative of foreigners incorporated in spiritual Zion Psalm 87:4; Psalm 87:5; Psalm 87:6; of production of mountains Psalm 90:2.
Hiph. Perfect הוֺלִיד Genesis 11:27 +; הוֺלִד Numbers 26:58; הֹלִיד 1 Chronicles 2:36 +; suffix וְהוֺלִידָהּ consecutive Isaiah 55:10; הוֺלַדְ֫תָּ Genesis 48:6, etc.; Imperfect יוֺלִיד Genesis 17:20; Ecclesiastes 6:3; וַיּ֫וֺלֶד Genesis 5:3 +; 2nd person masculine singular תּוֺלִיד Deuteronomy 4:25 + 4 times; אוֺלִיד Isaiah 66:9; Imperative הוֺלִי֫דוּ Jeremiah 29:6; Infinitive absolute הוֺלֵיד Isaiah 59:4; construct suffix הוֺלִידוֺ Genesis 5:4 + 16 times; Participle מוֺלִיד Isaiah 66:9; מוֺלִדִים Jeremiah 16:3; —
1. beget (a father a child) Genesis 5:3, 4 (twice in verse) + 56 times in Genesis; Leviticus 25:45; Numbers 26:29, 58 (all these P, see below Qal) + Deuteronomy 4:25; Deuteronomy 28:41 (see Di), 1 Chronicles 2:10 (twice in verse); 1 Chronicles 2:11 (twice in verse) + 84 times Chronicles; Ruth 4:18 + 8 times, Judges 11:1; 2 Kings 20:18 = Isaiah 39:7; Jeremiah 29:6; Ezekiel 18:10, 14; Ezekiel 47:22; Ecclesiastes 5:13; Ecclesiastes 6:3, compare Isaiah 45:10; also Jeremiah 16:3 אֲבוֺתָם הַמּוֺלִדִים אוֺתָם, compare frequently Assyr. abu banuûa, e.g. VR 1:8; figurative of producing dewdrops Job 38:28; of causing the earth to bear grain Isaiah 55:10, causing Zion to bring forth Isaiah 66:9.
2. bear, only figurative Isaiah 59:4 (|| הָרוֺ), of wicked, bringing forth iniquity (this favoured by context others, beget).
Hoph. Infinitive חֻלֶּ֫דֶת Genesis 40:20; Ezekiel 16:5; הוּלֶּ֫דֶת Ezekiel 16:4 (Co as foregoing); only אֶתֿ יוֺם ה׳ Genesis 40:20; Ezekiel 16:4, 5 day of one's being born = birthday.
Hithp. Imperfect וַיִּתְיִלְּדוּ Numbers 1:18 denominative from תולדת declared their pedigree (see Di).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:16; 3:16; 4:1; 4:1; 4:2; 4:18; 4:18; 4:18; 4:18; 4:26; 4:26; 5:3; 5:3; 5:4; 5:4; 6:1; 6:1; 6:2; 10:1; 10:8; 10:13; 10:15; 10:21; 10:24; 10:25; 10:26; 11:27; 16:11; 17:17; 17:17; 17:17; 17:19; 17:20; 18:13; 21:3; 21:3; 21:3; 21:5; 21:5; 22:23; 24:15; 25:3; 30:3; 30:39; 30:39; 31:8; 35:16; 35:17; 35:17; 35:17; 35:26; 36:5; 38:27; 38:28; 38:28; 40:20; 40:20; 41:50; 41:50; 46:20; 46:22; 46:27; 48:5; 48:5; 48:6; 50:23; 50:23

Exodus

1; 1:15; 1:15; 1:16; 1:16; 1:17; 1:18; 1:19; 1:20; 1:21

Leviticus

22:27; 25:45

Numbers

1:18; 11:12; 11:12; 11:12; 26:29; 26:58; 26:58; 26:60

Deuteronomy

4:25; 4:25; 15:19; 23:8; 28:41; 32:18; 32:18; 32:18

Judges

11:1; 13:8; 13:8; 18:29; 18:29

Ruth

4:17; 4:18

1 Samuel

4:19; 14:19

2 Samuel

3:2; 3:2; 3:2; 3:5; 5:13; 14:27; 21:20; 21:22

1 Kings

3:17; 3:17; 3:18; 3:18; 3:26; 3:26; 3:27; 3:27; 13:2; 13:2

2 Kings

19:3; 20:18

1 Chronicles

1:10; 1:11; 1:13; 1:18; 1:19; 1:20; 2:3; 2:3; 2:9; 2:10; 2:11; 2:36; 3:1; 3:4; 3:5; 3:5; 7:21; 7:21; 14:4; 14:4; 20:6; 20:8; 20:8; 22:9; 26:6

Ezra

10:3

Job

1:2; 3:3; 3:12; 5:7; 5:7; 11:12; 14:1; 15:7; 15:35; 15:35; 38:21; 38:28; 38:29; 39:1; 39:2

Psalms

2:7; 2:7; 7:15; 7:15; 48:7; 78:6; 87:4; 87:5; 87:6; 90:2; 90:2

Proverbs

17:17; 17:21; 17:21; 17:25; 23:23; 23:24; 23:25; 27:1; 27:1

Ecclesiastes

4:14; 5:13; 6:3; 6:3; 7:1; 7:1

Isaiah

9:5; 13:8; 21:3; 23:4; 26:18; 33:11; 37:3; 39:7; 42:14; 45:10; 51:18; 54:1; 55:10; 55:10; 59:4; 59:4; 65:23; 66:7; 66:8; 66:8; 66:8; 66:9; 66:9; 66:9

Jeremiah

2:27; 6:24; 13:21; 14:5; 16:3; 16:3; 16:3; 17:11; 17:11; 20:14; 20:15; 22:23; 22:26; 29:6; 29:6; 29:6; 30:6; 30:6; 30:6; 31:18; 49:24; 50:12; 50:43

Ezekiel

16:4; 16:4; 16:5; 16:5; 16:20; 18:10; 18:14; 23:4; 23:37; 31:6; 47:22

Daniel

11:6

Hosea

2:3; 2:3; 5:7; 9:11; 13:13; 13:13

Micah

4:9; 4:10; 5:2

Zechariah

13:3

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3205 matches the Hebrew יָלַד (yālaḏ),
which occurs 24 times in 22 verses in 'Isa' in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 7:14 - Therefore the Lord himself will give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 8:3 - And I went to the prophetess; and she conceived, and bore a son. Then said the LORD to me, Call his name Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 9:6 - For to us a child is born, to us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counselor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 13:8 - And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 21:3 - Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that travaileth: I was bowed down at the hearing of it; I was dismayed at the seeing of it.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 23:4 - Be thou ashamed, O Zidon: for the sea hath spoken, even the strength of the sea, saying, I travail not, nor bring forth children, neither do I nourish young men, nor bring up virgins.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:17 - As a woman with child, that draweth near the time of her delivery, is in pain, and crieth out in her pangs; so have we been in thy sight, O LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 26:18 - We have been with child, we have been in pain, we have as it were brought forth wind; we have not wrought any deliverance on the earth; neither have the inhabitants of the world fallen.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 33:11 - Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 37:3 - And they said to him, Thus saith Hezekiah, This day is a day of trouble, and of rebuke, and of blasphemy: for the children are come to the birth, and there is not strength to bring forth.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 39:7 - And of thy sons that shall issue from thee, which thou shalt beget, shall they take away; and they shall be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 42:14 - I have long time held my peace; I have been still, and restrained myself: now will I cry like a travailing woman; I will destroy and devour at once.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 45:10 - Woe to him that saith to his father, What begettest thou? or to the woman, What hast thou brought forth?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 49:21 - Then shalt thou say in thy heart, Who hath begotten these for me, seeing I have lost my children, and am desolate, a captive, and removing to and fro? and who hath brought up these? Behold, I was left alone; these, where have they been?
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:18 - There is none to guide her among all the sons whom she hath brought forth; neither is there any that taketh her by the hand of all the sons that she hath brought up.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 54:1 - Sing, O barren, thou that didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou that didst not travail with child: for more are the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 55:10 - For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 59:4 - None calleth for justice, nor any pleadeth for truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 65:23 - They shall not labor in vain, nor bring forth for trouble; for they are the seed of the blessed of the LORD, and their offspring with them.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:7 - Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a male child.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:8 - Who hath heard such a thing? who hath seen such things? shall the earth be made to bring forth in one day? or shall a nation be born at once? for as soon as Zion travailed, she brought forth her children.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 66:9 - Shall I bring to the birth, and not cause to bring forth? saith the LORD: shall I cause to bring forth, and shut the womb? saith thy God.
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