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To beget

יָלַדStrong’s H3205

yalad (ya-lad)

Appears in 403 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yalad is the Hebrew word usually translated “fathered”, “bore” and “fathered he”. It appears in 403 verses of the Old Testament.

“And in the end of years they shall join themselves together; for the king’s daughter of the south shall come to the king of the north to make an agreement: but she shall not retain the power of the arm; neither shall he stand, nor his arm: but she shall be given up, and they that brought her, and he that begat her, and he that strengthened her in these times.”
Daniel 11:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. To bear, bringforth, beget, gender, travail(Qal) · (Niphal) to be born · (Piel) · (Pual) to be born · (Hiphil) · (Hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive) · (Hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)
How it's translated
  • he fathered 110
  • and she bore 56
  • and he fathered 46
  • she bore 22
  • fathered he 17
  • it was born 11
  • like giving birth 10
  • she had borne 9

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

Where it's used most
  • Genesis 133
  • 1 Chronicles 83
  • Isaiah 22
  • Jeremiah 18
  • Job 15
  • Exodus 13

28 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 403 verses, by book
2 Kings 3
4:1719:320:18
Ezra 1
10:3
Nehemiah 2
12:1012:11
Ecclesiastes 5
3:24:145:146:37:1
Song of Solomon 2
6:98:5
Daniel 1
11:6
Micah 3
4:94:105:3
Zephaniah 1
2:2
Zechariah 1
13:3
Hebrew dictionary

יָלַד yalad · to beget

1) to bear, bringforth, beget, gender, travail 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to bear, bring forth 1a1a) of child birth 1a1b) of distress (simile) 1a1c) of wicked (behaviour) 1a2) to beget 1b) (Niphal) to be born 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cause or help to bring forth 1c2) to assist or tend as a midwife 1c3) midwife (participle) 1d) (Pual) to be born 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to beget (a child) 1e2) to bear (fig. -of wicked bringing forth iniquity) 1f) (Hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive) 1g) (Hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “father” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

F'ATHER, noun

[Latin pater. The primary sense is obvious.]

  1. He who begets a child; in Latin genitor or generator.“The father of a fool hath no joy” Proverbs 17:21
  2. The first ancestor; the progenitor of a race or family.
  3. The appellation of an old man, and a term of respect.“The king of Israel said to Elisha, my father shall I smite them?” 2 Kings 6:21
  4. The grandfather or more remote ancestor. Daniel 5:2
All definitions
  1. One who feeds and supports or exercises paternal care over another.
  2. He who creates, invents, makes or composes any thing; the author, former or contriver; a founder, director or instructor. John 8:16Genesis 4:201 Chronicles 2:511 Chronicles 4:14John 8:16Romans 4:1
  3. Fathers, in the plural, ancestors.“David slept with his fathers” 1 Kings 2:10
  4. A father in law. Luke 3:8
  5. The appellation of the first person in the adorable Trinity.“Go ye, therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the father and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit” Matthew 28:19
  6. The title given to dignitaries of the church, superiors of convents, and to popish confessors.
  7. The appellation of the ecclesiastical writers of the first centuries, as Polycarp, Jerome, etc.
  8. The title of a senator in ancient Rome; as conscript fathers.

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.