Midvash

יָדyâd

יָד: hand

Pronunciation: yawd · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3027

Meanings

1. hand (Genesis 3:22; Genesis 4:11; Genesis 8:9)

a. right hand (Genesis 48:17; Judges 7:20; 2 Samuel 20:9)

b. the two palms of his hands, armpits (1 Samuel 5:4; 2 Kings 9:35; Daniel 10:10)

c. arms of his hands (Genesis 49:24; 2 Kings 9:24; 2 Kings 13:16)

d. heave-offering of your hand, hand on the throne of Yah! (Job 31:27; Job 40:4; Micah 7:16)

2. figurative = strength, power (Joshua 8:20; Psalms 76:6; Leviticus 5:7)

3. figurative= side

d. the land is wide of (on) both hands, from the direction of Kittim. (Genesis 34:21; Judges 18:10; Isaiah 22:18)

e. side, place (Deuteronomy 23:13; Jeremiah 6:3; Numbers 2:17)

4. in various special, technical senses

a. sign, monument (1 Samuel 15:12; 2 Samuel 18:18)

b. part, fractional part, share (Genesis 47:24; 2 Samuel 19:44; 2 Kings 11:17)

c. time, repetition (Genesis 43:34; Daniel 1:20)

d. axle-trees (1 Kings 7:32; 1 Kings 7:33)

e. stays, supports (1 Kings 7:35; 1 Kings 7:36; 1 Kings 10:19)

f. tenons (Exodus 26:17; Exodus 26:19; Exodus 36:22)

g. a phallus thou beholdest (Isaiah 57:8)

5. with prepositions

a. into the charge, custody, of, by the side of (Esther 2:3; Esther 2:8; Esther 2:14)

b. give into the hand of (Genesis 27:17; Exodus 10:25; Joshua 6:2)

c. in the hand of, thy staff which is in thy hand (Genesis 38:18; Exodus 7:17; Exodus 17:9)

d. by the agency, instrumentality of (Genesis 38:20; Judges 6:36; 1 Samuel 11:7)

e. according to the hand of the king (1 Kings 10:13; Esther 2:18; Esther 1:7)

f. by the side of (1 Samuel 19:3; 1 Chronicles 18:17; 1 Chronicles 23:28)

g. out of the hand, out of power of (Psalms 32:12; Exodus 2:19; Exodus 18:9)

h. upon the hand(s) of, entrust him to me (Genesis 42:37; Psalms 63:11; Jeremiah 18:21)

i. under the hand, under thy hand (1 Samuel 21:9; Isaiah 3:6; Genesis 16:9)

יך: error for יד Qr (1 Samuel 4:13)

: hand

1. hand (Daniel 2:34; Daniel 2:45; Ezra 5:8)

2. power (Daniel 2:38; Daniel 3:15; Daniel 3:17)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 1,618 times in the Bible.

  • 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!”
  • Genesis 4:11 Now you are cursed and banished from the ground, which has swallowed your brother’s blood.
  • Genesis 5:29 Lamech named his son Noah, for he said, “May he bring us relief from our work and the painful labor of farming this ground that the Lord has cursed.”
  • Genesis 8:9 But the dove could find no place to land because the water still covered the ground. So it returned to the boat, and Noah held out his hand and drew the dove back inside.
  • Genesis 9:2 All the animals of the earth, all the birds of the sky, all the small animals that scurry along the ground, and all the fish in the sea will look on you with fear and terror. I have placed them in your power.
  • Genesis 9:5 “And I will require the blood of anyone who takes another person’s life. If a wild animal kills a person, it must die. And anyone who murders a fellow human must die.
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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).