Hebrew adjective · H3173
יָחִיד
yachidyaw-kheed'
only
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâchîyd
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3173is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3173
properly, united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced)
The King James renders it: darling, desolate, only (child, son), solitary.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
yachid is rendered "only". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 22:2“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
Genesis 22:2יְחִֽידְךָ֤
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- an only3
- only your3
- only my2
- solitary2
- and only1
- the only1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יָחִיל | yachil | waiting | Uses1 |
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יְחִידָתִֽי׃2
- הַיָּחִ֔יד1
- וְ֝יָחִ֗יד1
- יָחִ֖יד1
- יָחִיד֙1
- יָחִ֔יד1
- יְחִידָ֔ה1
- יְחִידִ֨ים׀1
- יְחִֽידְךָ֤1
- יְחִידְךָ֖1
- יְחִידֶֽךָ׃1
The grammar of each form
- adjective · masculine singular3HAamsa
- adjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular3HAamsc/Sp2ms
- adjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HAafsc/Sp1bs
- adjective · feminine singular1HAafsa
- adjective · masculine plural1HAampa
- conjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singular1HC/Aamsa
- the definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singular1HTd/Aamsa
Genesis
three uses
“Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.”
- יְחִֽידְךָ֤yechidekhaadjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: only your
“Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.”
- יְחִידְךָ֖yechidekhaadjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: only your
saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,
- יְחִידֶֽךָ׃yechidekhaadjective · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: only your
Judges
one use
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
- יְחִידָ֔הyechidahadjective · feminine singulartagged: an only
Psalms
four uses
Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.
- יְחִידָתִֽי׃yechidatiadjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: only my
Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.
- יָחִ֖ידyachidadjective · masculine singulartagged: solitary
How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.
- יְחִידָתִֽי׃yechidatiadjective · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: only my
God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- יְחִידִ֨ים׀yechidimadjective · masculine pluraltagged: solitary
Proverbs
one use
When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,
- וְ֝יָחִ֗ידveyachidconjunction (“and”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: and only
Jeremiah
one use
O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
- יָחִיד֙yachidadjective · masculine singulartagged: an only
Amos
one use
I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.
- יָחִ֔ידyachidadjective · masculine singulartagged: an only
Zechariah
one use
Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
- הַיָּחִ֔ידhaiyachidthe definite article (“the”) + adjective · masculine singulartagged: the only
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.