Midvash

אֶחָדʼechâd

אֶחָד: one

Pronunciation: ekh-awd' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H259

Meanings

1. one (Genesis 1:9; Genesis 27:38; Genesis 27:45)

2. each, every (Exodus 36:30; Numbers 7:3; Numbers 7:85)

3. a certain (1 Samuel 1:1; 2 Samuel 18:10; 2 Kings 4:1)

4. indefinite article (1 Samuel 6:7; 1 Samuel 24:15; 1 Samuel 26:20)

5. only (1 Kings 4:19; 2 Kings 6:10; Psalms 62:12)

6. one... another, the one... the other (Exodus 17:12; Exodus 18:3; Exodus 18:4)

7. as ordinal, first (Genesis 1:5; Genesis 2:11; Exodus 39:10)

8. in combination

a. eleventh (Genesis 32:23; Genesis 37:9; Deuteronomy 1:2)

ᵑ7: one, a

1. one (Daniel 7:5; Daniel 6:3; Daniel 2:9)

2. (indefinite article) (Daniel 2:31; Daniel 6:18; Daniel 4:16)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 970 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 1:5 God called the light “day” and the darkness “night.” And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.
  • Genesis 1:9 Then God said, “Let the waters beneath the sky flow together into one place, so dry ground may appear.” And that is what happened.
  • Genesis 2:11 The first branch, called the Pishon, flowed around the entire land of Havilah, where gold is found.
  • Genesis 2:21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening.
  • Genesis 2:24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
  • Genesis 3:22 Then the Lord God said, “Look, the human beings have become like us, knowing both good and evil. What if they reach out, take fruit from the tree of life, and eat it? Then they will live forever!”
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Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).