יָד yad

Hebrew word for “hand” · Strong’s H3027 · used 1,618 times in 1,446 verses

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Meaning

: hand/arm[anatomy]; 1) hand;

Senses in the lexicon

• hand (727)
• hand: power (579)
• hand: themselves (75)
• hand: by (73)
• hand: to (70)
• hand: vow (18)
• hand: owner (18)
• hand: donate (17)
• hand: times (6)
• hand: expend (6)
• hand: swear (5)
• hand: undertake (5)
• hand: monument (5)
• hand: spacious (5)
• hand: bank (3)
• hand: certainly (3)
• hand: tool (2)
• hand: penis (1)

How it is translated

Glosses given for yad in context, with how often each is used:

• hand 1,314
• hands 258
• side 16
• both hands 7
• monument 5
• will be in hand 3
• own hands 3
• own hand 3
• like the hands 1
• two hands 1
• pairs of hands 1
• pair of hands 1

Where it is used

Also in 24 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Judges 7 (11), 1 Samuel 14 (10), Nehemiah 3 (10), Jeremiah 38 (10), Genesis 39 (9), Exodus 29 (9), Leviticus 14 (9), 1 Samuel 23 (9), 1 Samuel 24 (9), Jeremiah 32 (9)

Forms

• ביד 282
• ידו 157
• יד 144
• ידי 137
• מיד 104
• ידך 93
• בידו 85
• בידך 62
• ידיו 44
• ידיהם 37

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yad more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• לָקַח laqach “to take” 128
• שָׁלַח shalach “to send” 121
• נָצַל natsal “to rescue” 69
• מַעֲשֶׂה maaseh “deed” 63
• יָצָא yatsa “to come out” 91
• נָטָה natah “to stretch” 60
• עֶבֶד eved “servant/slave” 81
• שׁוּב shuv “to return” 88
• חָזַק chazaq “to strengthen” 62
• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 68
• דָּוִד david “David” 81
• רָאָה raah “to see” 87

Key verses

The verses using yad that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Exodus 3:8 — And I am come down to deliver them out of the hand of the Egyptians, and to bring them up out of that land unto a good land and a large, unto a land flowing…
• Ecclesiastes 9:10 — Whatsoever thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy might; for there is no work, nor device, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave, whither thou goest.
• Isaiah 1:15 — And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.
• Isaiah 10:5 — O Assyrian, the rod of mine anger, and the staff in their hand is mine indignation.
• Isaiah 11:11 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from…
• Isaiah 50:2 — Wherefore, when I came, was there no man? when I called, was there none to answer? Is my hand shortened at all, that it cannot redeem? or have I no power to…
• Isaiah 53:10 — Yet it pleased the LORD to bruise him; he hath put him to grief: when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin, he shall see his seed, he shall prolong his…
• Isaiah 60:21 — Thy people also shall be all righteous: they shall inherit the land for ever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I may be glorified.
• Isaiah 66:2 — For all those things hath mine hand made, and all those things have been, saith the LORD: but to this man will I look, even to him that is poor and of a…
• Jeremiah 5:31 — The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests bear rule by their means; and my people love to have it so: and what will ye do in the end thereof?
• Micah 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Zechariah 13:7 — Awake, O sword, against my shepherd, and against the man that is my fellow, saith the LORD of hosts: smite the shepherd, and the sheep shall be scattered: and…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.