Hebrew word study
יָלַדyâlad — to bear young
Pronounced “yaw-lad'”
to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
Translated in the King James as: 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).
Appears 489 times in Scripture
Origin: a primitive root;
Read it in context & ask Abram about this wordWhere it appears
Genesis — 167×
Genesis 3:16Genesis 4:1Genesis 4:2Genesis 4:17Genesis 4:18Genesis 4:20Genesis 4:22Genesis 4:25Genesis 4:26Genesis 5:3Genesis 5:4Genesis 5:6Genesis 5:7Genesis 5:9Genesis 5:10Genesis 5:12Genesis 5:13Genesis 5:15Genesis 5:16Genesis 5:18Genesis 5:19Genesis 5:21Genesis 5:22Genesis 5:25Genesis 5:26+ 142 more in Genesis
Exodus — 15×
Numbers — 7×
Deuteronomy — 8×
Judges — 11×
Ruth — 14×
1 Samuel — 6×
2 Samuel — 11×
1 Kings — 9×
1 Chronicles — 116×
2 Chronicles — 5×
Ezra — 1×
Nehemiah — 4×
Job — 14×
Psalms — 9×
Proverbs — 7×
Ecclesiastes — 5×
Isaiah — 24×
Jeremiah — 23×
Ezekiel — 8×
Daniel — 1×
Micah — 4×
Zephaniah — 1×
Zechariah — 2×
Zech 13:3+ 1 more in Zechariah
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Lexicon data: Open Scriptures Strong’s dictionaries (CC-BY-SA). Word alignment: Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain). Self-hosted by Seen.