יָלַד
ya.lad
“to beget”
Definition
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
a primitive root;
- to bear, bringforth, beget, gender, travail 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to bear, bring forth 1a1a) of child birth 1a1b) of distress (simile) 1a1c) of wicked (behaviour) 1a2) to beget 1b) (Niphal) to be born 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cause or help to bring forth 1c2) to assist or tend as a midwife 1c3) midwife (participle) 1d) (Pual) to be born 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to beget (a child) 1e2) to bear (fig. -of wicked bringing forth iniquity) 1f) (Hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive) 1g) (Hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
יָלַד appears 384 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
Cush was the father of Nimrod, who began to be a mighty one on the earth.
On the third day after I gave birth, this woman also had a baby. We were alone, with no one in the house but the two of us.
When Eber was 34 years old, he became the father of Peleg.
And as she was giving birth, one of them put out his hand; so the midwife took a scarlet thread and tied it around his wrist. “This one came out first,” she announced.
But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
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