יֶ֫לֶד
ye.led
“youth”
Definition
something born, i.e. a lad or offspring
from H3205 (יָלַד);
- child, son, boy, offspring, youth 1a) child, son, boy 1b) child, children 1c) descendants 1d) youth 1e) apostate Israelites (fig.)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
יֶ֫לֶד appears 73 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
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