To give
יָהַבStrong’s H3051yahav (ya-hav)
Appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yahav is the Hebrew word usually translated “give”, “ascribe” and “provide”. It appears in 29 verses of the Old Testament.
“And I said unto them, If ye think good, give me my price; and if not, forbear. So they weighed for my price thirty pieces of silver.”
Meaning
- To give, provide, ascribe, come(Qal)
How it's translated
- give 21
- ascribe 10
- provide 2
- set 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 8
- Psalms 6
- Deuteronomy 2
- Judges 2
- 2 Samuel 2
- 1 Chronicles 2
13 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 11:3And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
- Genesis 11:4And they said, Go to, let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.
- Genesis 11:7Go to, let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.
- Genesis 29:21And Jacob said unto Laban, Give me my wife, for my days are fulfilled, that I may go in unto her.
- Genesis 30:1And when Rachel saw that she bare Jacob no children, Rachel envied her sister; and said unto Jacob, Give me children, or else I die.
- Genesis 38:16And he turned unto her by the way, and said, Go to, I pray thee, let me come in unto thee; (for he knew not that she was his daughter in law.) And she said, What wilt thou give me, that thou mayest come in unto me?
Hebrew dictionary
יָהַב yahav · to give
1) to give, provide, ascribe, come 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to give 1a2) to set, place 1a3) to provide (with reflexive) 1a4) to ascribe (glory) 1a5) to grant, permit, come now Aramaic equivalent: ye.hav (יְהַב "to give" H3052)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “give” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
GIVE, verb transitive
preterit tense gave; participle passive given. [Heb. to give The sense of give is generally to pass, or to transfer, that is, to send or throw.]
- To bestow; to confer; to pass or transfer the title or property of a thing to another person without an equivalent or compensation.
- To transmit from himself to another by hand, speech or writing; to deliver.“The woman whom thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the tree, and I did eat” Genesis 3:12
- To import; to bestow.“GIVE us of your oil, for our lamps are gone out” Matthew 25:8
- To communicate; as, to give an opinion; to give counsel or advice; to give notice.
All definitions and other forms of “give”
- To pass or deliver the property of a thing to another for an equivalent; to pay.“What shall a man give in exchange for this soul?” Matthew 16:26
- To yield; to lend; in the phrase to give ear, which signifies to listen; to hear.
- To quit; in the phrase to give place, which signifies to
- To confer; to grant.“What wilt thou give me, seeing I go childless?” Genesis 15:2
- To expose; to yield to the power of.
- To grant; to allow; to permit.
- To afford; to supply; to furnish.“Thou must give us also sacrifices and burnt offerings” Exodus 10:25
- To empower; to license; to commission.
- To pay or render; as, to give praise, applause or approbation.
- To render; to pronounce; as, to give sentence or judgment; to give the word of command.
- To utter; to vent; as, to give a shout.
- To produce; to show; to exhibit as a product or result; as, the number of men divided by the number of ships, gives four hundred to each ship.
- To cause to exist; to excite in another; as, to give offense or umbrage; to give pleasure.
- To send forth; to emit; as, a stone gives sparks with steel.
- To addict; to apply; to devote one's self, followed by the reciprocal pronoun.“GIVE thyself wholly to them” 1 Timothy 4:15
- To resign; to yield up; often followed by up.
- To pledge; as, I give my word that the debt shall be paid.
- To present for taking or acceptance; as, I give you my hand.
- To allow or admit by way of supposition.
- To addict; to attach to; to abandon.
- To despair of recovery; to believe to be lost, or past recovery.
- To abandon.
- To issue; to send forth; to publish.
- To show; to exhibit in false appearance.
- To send out; to emit; as, a substance gives out steam or odors.
- To surrender; as, to give up a fortress to an enemy.
- To relinquish, to cede.
- To abandon; as, to give up all hope.
- To deliver.“And Joab gave up the sum of the number of the people to the king” 2 Samuel 24:9
- To resign or devote.
- To addict; to abandon.
- To fail; to yield or force; to break or fall.
- To recede; to make room for.
- In seamen's language, give way is an order to a boat's crew to row after ceasing, or to increase their exertions.
GIVE, verb intransitive
giv. To yield to pressure. The earth gives under the feet.
- To begin to melt; to thaw; to grow soft, so as to yield to pressure.
- To move; to recede.
- To cease from exertion; to yield; applied to persons.
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.