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yalad

יָלַד

HebrewH3205bear, beget, ...

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Gen 4:1Gen 4:2Gen 4:17Gen 4:18 (3×)Gen 4:20Gen 4:22Gen 4:25Gen 4:26Gen 5:3Gen 5:4 (2×)Gen 5:6Gen 5:7 (2×)Gen 5:9Gen 5:10 (2×)Gen 5:12Gen 5:13 (2×)Gen 5:15Gen 5:16 (2×)Gen 5:18Gen 5:19 (2×)Gen 5:22Gen 5:26Gen 5:30Gen 10:8Gen 10:13Gen 10:15Gen 10:21Gen 10:24 (2×)Gen 10:25Gen 10:26Gen 11:11Gen 11:13Gen 11:15Gen 11:27 (2×)Gen 16:1Gen 16:2Gen 16:11Gen 16:15 (2×)Gen 16:16Gen 17:19Gen 19:37Gen 19:38Gen 21:2Gen 21:3Gen 21:7Gen 21:9Gen 22:20Gen 22:23 (2×)Gen 22:24Gen 24:24
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What yalad means

to bring a child into the world: to give birth to, to father, or to be born

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This is the basic Hebrew word for human (and animal) reproduction. One root covers the whole event from both sides: the mother who carries and delivers the child, and the father whose line the child continues. English needs different words for the two roles, so the same Hebrew verb is translated "bear" or "give birth" when a woman is the subject and "beget" or "father" when a man is. The passive forms mean simply "to be born."

Because it names the moment a new life enters a family, the word does the heavy lifting in the long genealogy lists, where it repeats as the spine of Israel's family tree ("so-and-so fathered so-and-so"). The same verb also describes the work of the woman who attends the delivery, the midwife.

The Bible then stretches the word past literal childbirth. It can picture God bringing his people or his chosen king into being as a father or mother brings a child, and it can picture an evil scheme being "conceived" and "brought forth" like a pregnancy. In every case the underlying idea is the same: something genuinely new is produced and comes out into the open.

Nuances

1aof a woman or female animal: to carry a child to term and deliver it
Gen 4:1Gen 16:15 (2×)Gen 21:2Gen 21:3Gen 29:32Gen 29:33Gen 29:34Gen 29:35Gen 30:1Gen 30:5Gen 30:21Gen 30:23
1bof a man: to father a child, to become the parent whose line is continued
Gen 4:18 (3×)Gen 5:3Gen 5:4 (2×)Gen 5:6Gen 5:9Gen 10:8Gen 11:10Gen 11:11Gen 11:27 (2×)Gen 25:19Rut 4:18Rut 4:19 (2×)
1cto be born, to come into the world
Gen 4:26Gen 10:21Gen 10:25Gen 17:17Gen 21:5Gen 46:20Gen 46:22Gen 48:5Lev 22:271Ki 13:21Ch 3:11Ch 3:4
1dto help a woman deliver, to act as a midwife
Gen 35:17Gen 38:28Exo 1:15Exo 1:16Exo 1:17Exo 1:18Exo 1:19Exo 1:20Exo 1:21
1eto bring forth or produce, used as a picture rather than of literal childbirth
Deu 32:18Job 15:35Job 38:28Job 38:29Psa 2:7Psa 90:2Pro 27:1Isa 33:11Isa 51:18Isa 54:1Isa 55:10Isa 59:4
1fto trace or register one's family descent
Num 1:18

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12 verses
Gen 3:16Gen 4:2Gen 6:1Gen 6:4Gen 10:1Gen 16:2Gen 16:11Gen 16:16Gen 17:19Gen 17:20Gen 17:21Gen 18:13

What scholars say about yalad

The standard lexica treat יָלַד as a single root for human and animal reproduction whose translation shifts with the subject: a woman bears, a man fathers, and the passive forms mean to be born. BDB and HALOT distinguish the active uses of mother and father, the passive (be born), the intensive (act as midwife), and a set of figurative uses where God is said to bring forth his people or king and where evil is pictured as conceived and delivered. The theological dictionaries note the prominence of the verb in the genealogies and in birth announcements, and discuss the figurative begetting of the king in Psalm 2:7 as language of installation rather than physical generation.

Sources

  • BDB, s.v. יָלַדlexicon
  • HALOT, s.v. ילדlexicon
  • DCH, s.v. ילדlexicon
  • Schreiner, "יָלַד yālad," TDOT 6:76-81dictionary
  • Bowling, "יָלַד," TWOT no. 867dictionary

All attested forms of יָלַד

hiphil perfect 3ms

הוֹלִיד, הֹלִיד, הוֹלִד, וְהוֹלִיד

Gen 11:27, Gen 11:27, Gen 25:19, Num 26:29, Rut 4:18, Rut 4:19, Rut 4:19, Rut 4:20

qal consecutive-imperfect 3fs

וַתֵּלֶד

Gen 4:1, Gen 4:17, Gen 4:20, Gen 4:25, Gen 16:15, Gen 19:37, Gen 21:2, Gen 22:24

qal perfect 3fs

יָלְדָה, יָלָדָה, יְלָדַתְ, יְלָדַתּ

Gen 4:22, Gen 16:1, Gen 16:15, Gen 19:38, Gen 21:3, Gen 21:9, Gen 22:20, Gen 22:23

hiphil consecutive-imperfect 3ms

וַיּוֹלֶד

Gen 5:3, Gen 5:4, Gen 5:6, Gen 5:7, Gen 5:9, Gen 5:10, Gen 5:12, Gen 5:13

qal perfect 3ms

יָלַד, יְלָד, יְלָדְ, יְלָדֶ, יָלָד

Gen 4:18, Gen 4:18, Gen 4:18, Gen 10:8, Gen 10:13, Gen 10:15, Gen 10:24, Gen 10:24

qal participle f s absolute

כַּיּוֹלֵדָה, יוֹלֵדָה, יֹלֶדֶת, יֹלַדְתְּ, יֹּלֵדָה, יֹּלֶדֶת

Psa 48:6, Isa 13:8, Isa 42:14, Jer 6:24, Jer 30:6, Jer 49:24, Jer 50:43, Mic 4:9

qal infinitive-construct construct

לֶדֶת, לִדְתָּ, לֶּדֶת, לִדְתִּ, לַת

Gen 4:2, Gen 16:16, Gen 25:24, Gen 25:26, Job 39:1, Ecc 3:2, Isa 26:17, Zep 2:2

hiphil infinitive-construct construct

הוֹלִיד

Gen 5:4, Gen 5:7, Gen 5:10, Gen 5:13, Gen 5:16, Gen 5:19, Gen 5:22, Gen 5:26

pual perfect 3ms

יֻלַּד, יוּלָּד

Gen 4:26, Gen 10:21, Gen 10:25, Gen 35:26, Gen 41:50, Gen 46:22, Gen 46:27, Rut 4:17

qal perfect 1cs

יָלַדְתִּי, יְלִדְתִּי, יָלָדְתִּי

Gen 21:7, Gen 29:34, Gen 30:20, Rut 1:12, 1Ch 4:9, Isa 23:4, Num 11:12, Psa 2:7

niphal perfect 3ms

נוֹלַד, הַנּוֹלַד

1Ch 2:3, 1Ch 2:9, 1Ch 3:1, 1Ch 3:4, 1Ch 20:6, 1Ch 26:6, Ecc 4:14, Gen 21:3

niphal imperfect 3ms

יִוָּלֵד

Gen 17:17, Lev 22:27, Deu 15:19, Job 11:12, Pro 17:17, Isa 66:8

piel participle f p absolute

מְיַלְּדֹת

Exo 1:15, Exo 1:17, Exo 1:18, Exo 1:19, Exo 1:20, Exo 1:21

pual perfect 3cp

יֻלְּדוּ, יֻלָּדוּ

Gen 6:1, Gen 36:5, Gen 50:23, 2Sa 3:5, 2Sa 21:22, Psa 90:2

qal imperfect 3fs

תֵּלֵד

Gen 17:17, Gen 17:21, Lev 12:5, Deu 25:6, Deu 28:57, Job 24:21

hiphil imperfect 2ms

תּוֹלִיד

Deu 4:25, Deu 28:41, 2Ki 20:18, Isa 39:7, Isa 45:10

niphal consecutive-imperfect 3mp

וַיִּוָּלְדוּ, וַיִּוָּלְדּוּ

Gen 10:1, 2Sa 3:2, 2Sa 14:27, Job 1:2, 2Sa 5:13

qal consecutive-perfect 3cp

וְיָלְדוּ, וְיָלָדוּ

Gen 6:4, Gen 31:8, Gen 31:8, Deu 21:15, Exo 1:19

qal participle f s construct

יוֹלַדְתְּ, יוֹלַדְתֶּ, יֹלֶדֶת, לְיוֹלַדְתָּ, לְיוֹלַדְתּ

Jer 50:12, Pro 23:25, Jer 15:9, Sng 6:9, Pro 17:25

f s absolute

לֵדָה, לֵּדָה

2Ki 19:3, Isa 37:3, Jer 13:21, Hos 9:11

niphal participle m s absolute

נוֹלָד, וְהַנּוֹלָד

1Ki 13:2, 1Ch 22:9, Psa 22:31, Ezr 10:3

qal perfect 2fs

יָלַדְתְּ, יְלִדְתִּ, יָלָדְתְּ

Jdg 13:3, Ezk 16:20, Jer 15:10, 1Sa 4:20

qal perfect 3cp

יָלְדוּ, יָלָדוּ

Ezk 23:37, Ezk 31:6, Gen 31:43, Hos 5:7

hiphil consecutive-perfect 3ms

וְהוֹלִיד, וְהוֹלִידָ

Ecc 5:14, Ezk 18:10, Isa 55:10

hophal infinitive-construct construct

הֻלֶּדֶת, הוּלֶּדֶת

Gen 40:20, Ezk 16:5, Ezk 16:4

niphal consecutive-imperfect 3ms

וַיִּוָּלֵד

Gen 4:18, Gen 46:20, Num 26:60

niphal infinitive-construct construct

הִוָּלְד, הִוָּלְדָ, הִוָּלֶד

Ecc 7:1, Hos 2:3, Gen 21:5

piel participle f s absolute

מְיַלֶּדֶת

Gen 35:17, Gen 38:28, Exo 1:19

qal participle m s absolute

יֹלֵד, וְיוֹלֵד

Pro 17:21, Jer 30:6, Pro 23:24

qal passive-participle m s construct

יְלוּד

Job 14:1, Job 15:14, Job 25:4

hiphil imperfect 3ms

יוֹלִיד

Gen 17:20, Ecc 6:3

hiphil perfect 3cp

הוֹלִדוּ, הוֹלִידוּ

Ezk 47:22, Lev 25:45

niphal imperfect 2ms

תִּוָּלֵד

Job 15:7, Job 38:21

niphal imperfect 3mp

יִוָּלְדוּ, יִוָּלֵדוּ

Deu 23:8, Psa 78:6

niphal participle m p absolute

הַנּוֹלָדִים

Gen 48:5, 1Ch 7:21

niphal perfect 3cp

נוּלְּדוּ

1Ch 3:5, 1Ch 20:8

qal consecutive-imperfect 3fp

וַתֵּלַדְןָ, וַתֵּלַדְנָה

Gen 30:39, Ezk 23:4

qal consecutive-perfect 3fs

וְיָלְדָה

Exo 21:4, Lev 12:2

qal imperfect 3mp

יֵלְדוּ, יֵלֵדוּ

Isa 65:23, Hos 9:16

qal participle m p construct

יֹלְדָי

Zec 13:3, Zec 13:3

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