יָלַד
To bear young ; causatively, to beget ; medically, to act as midwife ; specifically, to show lineage
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What does יָלַד (yəliḏtîḵā) mean in the Bible?
יָלַד (yəliḏtîḵā) is a Hebrew word meaning "to bear young ; causatively, to beget ; medically, to act as midwife ; specifically, to show lineage".
Meaning
Encompasses entire reproductive spectrum: biological bearing, paternal generation, midwifery assistance, and genealogical declaration of lineage.
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage BDB: bear Usage: bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
Grammatical Forms
How the stem changes the meaning of this verb across the biblical text.
Hiphil causative active — the subject causes someone else to perform the action 106×
Qal basic active stem — the word in its most common, direct sense 103×
Pual intensive passive — intensive action received by the subject 25×
Niphal passive or reflexive — the subject receives or experiences the action 23×
Hophal causative passive — the subject is caused to perform the action 3×
Qal passive 1×
Biblical Occurrences
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