Maiden
יַלְדָּהStrong’s H3207yaldah (yal-dah)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yaldah is the Hebrew word usually translated “girl” and “girls”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the streets thereof.”
Meaning
- Girl, damsel, marriageable girl
How it's translated
- the girl 1
- and the girl 1
- and girls 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Genesis 1
- Joel 1
- Zechariah 1
3 books in all.
Related words
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Hebrew dictionary
יַלְדָּה yaldah · maiden
girl, damsel, marriageable girl
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “maiden” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MA'IDEN, noun
- An unmarried woman, or a young unmarried woman; a virgin.
- A female servant.
- It is used in composition, to express the feminine gender, as in maid-servant.
All definitions and other forms of “maiden”
MA'IDEN, noun
A maid; also, an instrument for beheading criminals, and another for washing linen.
MA'IDEN, adjective
Pertaining to a young woman or virgin; as maiden charms.
- Consisting of young women or virgins.
- Fresh; new; unused.
MA'IDEN, verb intransitive
To speak and act demurely or modestly.
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.