Beloved
יָדִידStrong’s H3039yedid (ye-did)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yedid is the Hebrew word usually translated “beloved my”, “beloved your” and “beloved of”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And of Benjamin he said, The beloved of the LORD shall dwell in safety by him; and the Lord shall cover him all the day long, and he shall dwell between his shoulders.”
Meaning
- Beloved
- Lovely
- Love
How it's translated
- to beloved my 3
- beloved your 2
- beloved of 1
- love 1
- lovely 1
- to beloved his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- Deuteronomy 1
- Isaiah 1
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Psalms 45:1My heart is inditing a good matter: I speak of the things which I have made touching the king: my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
- Psalms 60:5That thy beloved may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me.
- Psalms 84:1How amiable are thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!
- Psalms 108:6That thy beloved may be delivered: save with thy right hand, and answer me.
- Psalms 127:2It is vain for you to rise up early, to sit up late, to eat the bread of sorrows: for so he giveth his beloved sleep.
- Isaiah 5:1Now will I sing to my wellbeloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My wellbeloved hath a vineyard in a very fruitful hill:
Hebrew dictionary
יָדִיד yedid · beloved
1) beloved 2) lovely
יָדִידָה yedidah · love
love
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beloved” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BELOV'ED, participle present
tense [be and loved, from love. Belove, as a verb, is not used.]
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.