To praise
יְדָאStrong’s H3034yeda (ye-da)
Appears in 111 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yeda is the Hebrew word usually translated “give thanks”, “give thanks to you” and “give thanks to”. It appears in 111 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I prayed unto the LORD my God, and made my confession, and said, O Lord, the great and dreadful God, keeping the covenant and mercy to them that love him, and to them that keep his commandments;”
Meaning
- (Aphel) to praise, give thanks
How it's translated
- give thanks 15
- to give thanks 11
- i will give thanks to you 10
- i will give thanks to 7
- and they will praise 4
- and to give thanks 4
- i will give thanks to him 4
- may they praise you 4
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 64
- 1 Chronicles 9
- 2 Chronicles 8
- Nehemiah 6
- Isaiah 5
- Leviticus 3
17 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 9:20In contextAnd whiles I was speaking, and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God for the holy mountain of my God;
- Zechariah 1:21In contextThen said I, What come these to do? And he spake, saying, These are the horns which have scattered Judah, so that no man did lift up his head: but these are come to fray them, to cast out the horns of the Gentiles, which lifted up their horn over the land of Judah to scatter it.
- Genesis 29:35And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.
- Genesis 49:8Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father’s children shall bow down before thee.
- Leviticus 5:5And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:
- Leviticus 16:21And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:
All 111 verses, by book
- Numbers 1
- 5:7
- 2 Samuel 1
- 22:50
- Job 1
- 40:14
- Psalms 64
- 6:57:179:118:4928:730:430:930:1232:533:235:1842:542:1143:443:544:845:1749:1852:954:657:967:367:571:2275:176:1079:1386:1288:1089:592:197:1299:3100:4105:1106:1106:47107:1107:8107:15107:21107:31108:3109:30111:1118:1118:19118:21118:28118:29119:7119:62122:4136:1136:2136:3136:26138:1138:2138:4139:14140:13142:7145:10
- Proverbs 1
- 28:13
- Lamentations 1
- 3:53
- Zechariah 1
- 1:21
Hebrew dictionary
יְדָא yeda · to praise
(Aphel) to praise, give thanks Aramaic of ya.dah (יָדָה "to give thanks" H3034)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “praise” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRAISE, noun
s as z. [Latin pretium.]
- Commendation bestowed on a person for his personal virtues or worthy actions, on meritorious actions themselves, or on any thing valuable; approbation expressed in words or song. praise may be expressed by an individual, and in this circumstance differs from fame, renown, and celebrity, which are the expression of the approbation of numbers, or public commendation.
- The expression of gratitude for personal favors conferred; a glorifying or extolling.“He hath put a new song into my mouth, even praise to our God” Psalms 40:3
- The object, ground or reason of praise“He is thy praise and he is thy God” Deuteronomy 10:21
All definitions and other forms of “praise”
PRAISE, verb transitive
[Latin tollo, extollo; pretium.]
- To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of personal worth or actions.
- To extol in words or song; to magnify; to glorify on account of perfections or excellent works.“PRAISE him, all his angels, praise ye him, all his hosts” Psalms 148:2
- To express gratitude for personal favors.
- To do honor to; to display the excellence of.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.