yehav (to give) · Rightly

Meaning

To give, provide(P'al) · (Hithp'al)

How it's translated

it was given 6
he gave 4
given 3
let it be given 2
giving 2
he has given 2
being paid 1
and they were given 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Daniel 20
Ezra 8

2 books in all.

Related words

Explore in Scripture

Daniel 2:23In contextI thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king’s matter.
Daniel 2:37In contextThou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory.
Daniel 2:38In contextAnd wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art this head of gold.
Daniel 2:48In contextThen the king made Daniel a great man, and gave him many great gifts, and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon, and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon.
Daniel 3:28In contextThen Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king’s word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.
Daniel 4:16In contextLet his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.

All 28 verses, by book

Ezra 8: 4:20 5:12 5:14 5:16 6:4 6:8 6:9 7:19
Daniel 20: 2:21 2:23 2:37 2:38 2:48 3:28 4:16 5:17 5:18 5:19 5:28 6:2 7:4 7:6 7:11 7:12 7:14 7:22 7:25 7:27

Aramaic dictionary

יְהַב yehav · to give

1) to give, provide 1a) (P'al) 1a1) to give 1a2) to place, lay (foundations) 1b) (Hithp'al) 1b1) to be given 1b2) to be paid

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.