Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3206
יֶלֶד
yeledyeh'-led
youth
89 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3206is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 19 of 39Old Testament books
- 51spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3206
something born, i.e. a lad or offspring
The King James renders it: boy, child, fruit, son, young man (one).
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
yeled is rendered "youth". It stands 89 times in the Hebrew text, across nineteen books.
- Nineteen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 4:23Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
- The Greek text spells it fifty-one different ways.
The first use
Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
Genesis 4:23וְיֶ֖לֶד
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in nineteen of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the child25
- the children7
- the boy5
- the youths5
- the lad4
- the young men4
- and children her3
- a child2
- and children their2
- and the children2
- boys2
- children2
and 23 more, 89 uses in all
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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| יֶלֶק | yeleq | locust | Uses9 |
The words it stands beside
All 89, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
51 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
- הַיְלָדִים֙8
- הַיֶּ֖לֶד5
- הַיָּֽלֶד׃5
- הַיֶּ֔לֶד4
- הַיֶּ֗לֶד4
- הַיָּ֑לֶד4
- הַיְלָדִ֔ים4
- הַיֶּ֣לֶד3
- הַיֶּ֙לֶד֙3
- הַיֶּ֤לֶד2
- הַיֶּ֜לֶד2
- הַיֶּ֥לֶד2
and 39 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular35HTd/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural17HTd/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural5HNcmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine plural4HNcmpc/Sp3fp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular3HC/Ncmpc/Sp3fs
- conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HC/Td/Ncmpa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular3HNcmpc/Sp3ms
- noun · masculine singular3HNcmsa
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp1bs
- noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular2HNcmpc/Sp3fs
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular2HRd/Ncmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural1HC/Ncmpa
Genesis
nineteen uses
Then Lamech said to his wives: “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my speech. For I have slain a man for wounding me, a young man for striking me.
- וְיֶ֖לֶדveyeledconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a young man
So the child grew and was weaned, and Abraham held a great feast on the day Isaac was weaned.
- הַיֶּ֖לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
Early in the morning, Abraham got up, took bread and a skin of water, put them on Hagar’s shoulders, and sent her away with the boy. She left and wandered in the Wilderness of Beersheba.
- הַיֶּ֖לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the boy
When the water in the skin was gone, she left the boy under one of the bushes.
- הַיֶּ֔לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the boy
Then she went off and sat down nearby, about a bowshot away, for she said, “I cannot bear to watch the boy die!” And as she sat nearby, she lifted up her voice and wept.
- הַיָּ֑לֶדhaiyaledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the boy
Give me my wives and children for whom I have served you, that I may go on my way. You know how hard I have worked for you.”
- יְלָדַ֗יyeladainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: children my
During the night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two maidservants, and his eleven sons, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.
- יְלָדָ֑יוyeladavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: sons his
Now Jacob looked up and saw Esau coming toward him with four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two maidservants.
- הַיְלָדִ֗יםhayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the children
He put the maidservants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph at the rear.
- יַלְדֵיהֶ֖ןyaldeihennoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: children their
- וִֽילָדֶ֙יהָ֙viladeihaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and children her
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”
- הַיְלָדִ֔יםhayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the children
- הַיְלָדִ֕יםhayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the children
Then the maidservants and their children approached and bowed down.
- וְיַלְדֵיהֶ֖ןveyaldeihenconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: and children their
Leah and her children also approached and bowed down, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and bowed down.
- וִילָדֶ֖יהָviladeihaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and children her
But Jacob replied, “My lord knows that the children are frail, and I must care for sheep and cattle that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard for even a day, all the animals will die.
- הַיְלָדִ֣יםhayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the children
Please let my lord go ahead of his servant. I will continue on slowly, at a comfortable pace for the livestock and children, until I come to my lord at Seir.”
- הַיְלָדִ֔יםhayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the children
returned to his brothers, and said, “The boy is gone! What am I going to do?”
- הַיֶּ֣לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the boy
And Reuben responded, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you would not listen. Now we must account for his blood!”
- בַיֶּ֖לֶדvaiyeledpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: against the boy
And we answered, ‘We have an elderly father and a younger brother, the child of his old age. The boy’s brother is dead. He is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’
- וְיֶ֥לֶדveyeledconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a child of
Exodus
twelve uses
The midwives, however, feared God and did not do as the king of Egypt had instructed; they let the boys live.
- הַיְלָדִֽים׃hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the children
So the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”
- הַיְלָדִֽים׃hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the children
But when she could no longer hide him, she got him a papyrus basket and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in the basket and set it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.
- הַיֶּ֔לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
When she opened it, she saw the child, and behold, the little boy was crying. So she had compassion on him and said, “This is one of the Hebrew children.”
- הַיֶּ֔לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
- מִיַּלְדֵ֥יmiyaldeipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: one of children of
Then his sister said to Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and call one of the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”
- הַיָּֽלֶד׃haiyaledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
“Go ahead,” Pharaoh’s daughter told her. And the girl went and called the boy’s mother.
- הַיָּֽלֶד׃haiyaledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will pay your wages.” So the woman took the boy and nursed him.
- הַיֶּ֤לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
- הַיֶּ֖לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
When the child had grown older, she brought him to Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. She named him Moses and explained, “I drew him out of the water.”
- הַיֶּ֗לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.
- וִילָדֶ֗יהָviladeihaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: and children her
If men who are fighting strike a pregnant woman and her child is born prematurely, but there is no further injury, he shall surely be fined as the woman’s husband demands and as the court allows.
- יְלָדֶ֔יהָyeladeihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: children her
Ruth
two uses
both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.
- יְלָדֶ֖יהָyeladeihanoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: children her
And Naomi took the child, placed him on her lap, and became a nurse to him.
- הַיֶּ֙לֶד֙haiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
1 Samuel
two uses
He had two wives, one named Hannah and the other Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.
- יְלָדִ֔יםyeladimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: children
- יְלָדִֽים׃yeladimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: children
2 Samuel
twelve uses
And Michal the daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
- יָ֑לֶדyalednoun · masculine singulartagged: a child
After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.
- הַיֶּ֜לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
On the seventh day the child died. But David’s servants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he would not listen to us. So how can we tell him the child is dead? He may even harm himself.”
- הַיָּ֑לֶדhaiyaledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
- הַיֶּ֗לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
- הַיֶּ֜לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
- הַיֶּ֖לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
When David saw that his servants were whispering to one another, he perceived that the child was dead. So he asked his servants, “Is the child dead?” “He is dead,” they replied.
- הַיָּ֑לֶדhaiyaledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
- הַיֶּ֖לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
“What is this you have done?” his servants asked. “While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but when he died, you got up and ate.”
- הַיֶּ֤לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
- הַיֶּ֔לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
David answered, “While the child was alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let him live.’
- הַיֶּ֣לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
- הַיָּֽלֶד׃haiyaledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
1 Kings
nine uses
and the king declared, “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”
- הַיֶּ֥לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
- הַיְלָדִים֙hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the young men
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
- הַיְלָדִים֙hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the young men
and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
- הַיְלָדִים֙hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the young men
As for you, get up and go home. When your feet enter the city, the child will die.
- הַיָּֽלֶד׃haiyaledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”
- הַיֶּ֙לֶד֙haiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the lad
- הַיֶּ֥לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the lad
And the LORD listened to the voice of Elijah, and the child’s life returned to him, and he lived.
- הַיֶּ֛לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the lad
Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.
- הַיֶּ֗לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the lad
2 Kings
six uses
Then he turned around, looked at them, and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Suddenly two female bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.
- יְלָדִֽים׃yeladimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: boys
Now the wife of one of the sons of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant, my husband, is dead, and you know that your servant feared the LORD. And now his creditor is coming to take my two children as his slaves!”
- יְלָדַ֛יyeladainoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: children my
And the child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the harvesters.
- הַיָּ֑לֶדhaiyaledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
Please run out now to meet her and ask, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’” And she answered, “Everything is all right.”
- לַיָּ֑לֶדlaiyaledpreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: to the child
Then Elisha got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eye to eye, and hand to hand. As he stretched himself out over him, the boy’s body became warm.
- הַיֶּ֗לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
- הַיָּֽלֶד׃haiyaledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the child
2 Chronicles
three uses
But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him.
- הַיְלָדִים֙hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the youths
The young men who had grown up with him replied, “This is how you should answer these people who said to you, ‘Your father made our yoke heavy, but you should make it lighter.’ This is what you should tell them: ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist!
- הַיְלָדִים֙hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the youths
and spoke to them as the young men had advised, saying, “Whereas my father made your yoke heavy, I will add to your yoke. Whereas my father scourged you with whips, I will scourge you with scorpions.”
- הַיְלָדִים֙hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the young men
Ezra
one use
While Ezra prayed and made this confession, weeping and falling facedown before the house of God, a very large assembly of Israelites—men, women, and children—gathered around him, and the people wept bitterly as well.
- וִֽילָדִ֔יםviladimconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and children
Nehemiah
one use
On that day they offered great sacrifices, rejoicing because God had given them great joy. The women and children also rejoiced, so that the joy of Jerusalem was heard from afar.
- וְהַיְלָדִ֖יםvehayladimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the children
Job
three uses
They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
- וְ֝יַלְדֵיהֶ֗םveyaldeihemconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and children their
Who provides food for the raven when its young cry out to God as they wander about for lack of food?
- יְ֭לָדָיוyeladovnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: young ones its
They crouch down and bring forth their young; they deliver their newborn.
- יַלְדֵיהֶ֣ןyaldeihennoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: young their
Ecclesiastes
two uses
Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.
- יֶ֥לֶדyelednoun · masculine singulartagged: a youth
I saw that all who lived and walked under the sun followed this second one, the youth who succeeded the king.
- הַיֶּ֣לֶדhaiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the youth
Isaiah
seven uses
For You have abandoned Your people, the house of Jacob, because they are filled with influences from the east; they are soothsayers like the Philistines; they strike hands with the children of foreigners.
- וּבְיַלְדֵ֥יuveyaldeiconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and with children of
Here am I, and the children the LORD has given me as signs and symbols in Israel from the LORD of Hosts, who dwells on Mount Zion.
- וְהַיְלָדִים֙vehayladimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the children
For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
- יֶ֣לֶדyelednoun · masculine singulartagged: a child
The cow will graze with the bear, their young will lie down together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox.
- יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ןyaldeihennoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: young their
For when he sees his children around him, the work of My hands, they will honor My name, they will sanctify the Holy One of Jacob, and they will stand in awe of the God of Israel.
- יְלָדָ֞יוyeladavnoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: children its
Whom are you mocking? At whom do you snarl and stick out your tongue? Are you not children of transgression, offspring of deceit,
- יִלְדֵי־yildei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: children of
who burn with lust among the oaks, under every luxuriant tree, who slaughter your children in the valleys, under the clefts of the rocks?
- הַיְלָדִים֙hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: of the children
Jeremiah
one use
Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.
- יֶ֣לֶדyelednoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a child of
Lamentations
one use
The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- יַלְדֵיהֶ֑ןyaldeihennoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: own children their
Daniel
five uses
young men without blemish, handsome, gifted in all wisdom, knowledgeable, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace—and to teach them the language and literature of the Chaldeans.
- יְלָדִ֣יםyeladimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: youths
but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”
- הַיְלָדִים֙hayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the youths
Then compare our appearances with those of the young men who are eating the royal food, and deal with your servants according to what you see.”
- הַיְלָדִ֔יםhayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the youths
And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the king’s food.
- הַיְלָדִ֔יםhayladimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the youths
To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. And Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.
- וְהַיְלָדִ֤יםvehayladimconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: and the youths
Hosea
one use
When the LORD first spoke through Hosea, He told him, “Go, take a prostitute as your wife and have children of adultery, because this land is flagrantly prostituting itself by departing from the LORD.”
- וְיַלְדֵ֣יveyaldeiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and children of
Joel
one use
They cast lots for My people; they bartered a boy for a prostitute and sold a girl for wine to drink.
- הַיֶּ֙לֶד֙haiyeledthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the boy
Zechariah
one use
And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”
- יְלָדִ֖יםyeladimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: boys
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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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
