יָלַד

ya.lad · to beget

Hebrew · Strong's H3205 · Verb · Sounds like: yaw-lad' · 496 occurrences

Word meanings

Strong's dictionary

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).

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (public domain)

Full lexicon entry (Brown-Driver-Briggs)
יָלַד 497 vb. bear, bring forth, beget
Qal
1. bear, bring forth
2. less often beget
3. of both parents
Niph. be born
Pi. cause (or help) to bring forth, viz., assist or tend as midwife
Pu. be born
Hiph.
1. beget (a father a child)
2. bear
Hoph. day of one's being born = birthday
Hithp. declared their pedigree

Every occurrence

  1. Ecclesiastes 3:2 לָלֶ֖דֶת la.Le.det · The “to do” form of an action: simple action

    a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up that which is planted;

  2. Ecclesiastes 4:14 נוֹלַ֥ד no.Lad · An action: receiving the action, finished, with a lasting result, done by him, her or it

    For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

  3. Ecclesiastes 5:14 וְהוֹלִ֣יד ve.ho.Lid · An action: causing it, and then it will happen, done by him, her or it

    and those riches perish by evil adventure; and if he hath begotten a son, there is nothing in his hand.

  4. Ecclesiastes 6:3 יוֹלִ֣יד yo.Lid · An action: causing it, not finished: still happening or still to come, done by him, her or it

    If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

  5. Ecclesiastes 7:1 הִוָּלְדֽוֹ׃ hi.val.Do · The “to do” form of an action: receiving the action

    A good name is better than precious oil; and the day of death, than the day of one's birth.

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