Beginning
יְסֻדStrong’s H3246yesud (ye-sud)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Yesud is the Hebrew word usually translated “beginning of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“For upon the first day of the first month began he to go up from Babylon, and on the first day of the fifth month came he to Jerusalem, according to the good hand of his God upon him.”
Meaning
- A beginning, foundation, that being founded
How it's translated
- beginning of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezra 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
יְסֻד yesud · beginning
a beginning, foundation, that being founded
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “beginning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BEGIN'NING, participle present
tense First entering upon; commencing; giving rise or original; taking rise or origin.
All definitions and other forms of “beginning”
BEGIN'NING, noun
The first cause; origin.
- That which is first; the first state; commencement; entrance into being.“In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” Genesis 1:1
- The rudiments, first ground or materials.
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.