יָחִיד
ya.chid
“only”
Definition
properly, united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced)
from H3161 (יָחַד);
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word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Adjective
H:A
Hebrew Adjective
Occurrences
יָחִיד appears 10 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
I will turn your feasts into mourningand all your songs into lamentation.I will cause everyone to wear sackclothand every head to be shaved.I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,and its outcome like a bitter day.
“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
When I was a son to my father,tender and the only child of my mother,
How long, O Lord, will You look on?Rescue my soul from their ravages,my precious life from these lions.
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