יָלַד yalad

Hebrew word for “to beget” · Strong’s H3205 · used 496 times in 403 verses

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Meaning

1) to bear, bringforth, beget, gender, travail;

How it is translated

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

• fathered 156
• bore 88
• born 44
• fathered he 17
• will bear 13
• had borne 12
• like woman giving birth 10
• will father 7
• gave birth 7
• have borne 6
• midwives 6
• will be born 5

Where it is used

Also in 16 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

1 Chronicles 2 (26), Genesis 5 (19), Genesis 11 (18), Genesis 30 (14), 1 Chronicles 6 (11), 1 Chronicles 8 (10), Ruth 4 (9), Genesis 4 (8), Genesis 10 (8), 1 Chronicles 1 (8)

Forms

• הוליד 85
• ותלד 63
• ויולד 49
• ילדה 45
• ילד 38
• הולידו 18
• ילדו 12
• נולד 10
• הליד 9
• כיולדה 9

Words used with it

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

• בַּת bat “daughter” 63
• אִשָּׁה ishshah “woman” 59
• הָרָה harah “to conceive” 31
• שֵׁם shem “name” 53
• שָׁנָה shaneh “year” 48
• חָיָה chayah “to live” 37
• קָרָא qara “to call” 37
• אֵלֶּה elleh “these” 33
• אָב av “father” 36
• אַחַר achar “after” 31
• מֵאָה meah “hundred” 28
• גַּם gam “also” 25

Key verses

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

• Genesis 3:16 — Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children; and thy desire shall be to thy…
• Genesis 5:22 — And Enoch walked with God after he begat Methuselah three hundred years, and begat sons and daughters:
• Genesis 29:32 — And Leah conceived, and bare a son, and she called his name Reuben: for she said, Surely the LORD hath looked upon my affliction; now therefore my husband will…
• Job 15:14 — What is man, that he should be clean? and he which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous?
• Psalms 2:7 — I will declare the decree: the LORD hath said unto me, Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.
• Isaiah 7:14 — Therefore the Lord himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call his name Immanuel.
• Isaiah 9:6 — For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The…
• Isaiah 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…
• Isaiah 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.
• Jeremiah 15:10 — Woe is me, my mother, that thou hast borne me a man of strife and a man of contention to the whole earth! I have neither lent on usury, nor men have lent to me…
• Jeremiah 17:11 — As the partridge sitteth on eggs, and hatcheth them not; so he that getteth riches, and not by right, shall leave them in the midst of his days, and at his end…
• Jeremiah 31:8 — Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the coasts of the earth, and with them the blind and the lame, the woman with child 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.