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יָד

yadhandHow to read Hebrew
hebrewOld TestamentNoun1,617 occurrences36 books1,445 verses

Definition

a primitive word; a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from H3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote [as follows]
Traditional renderings: ( be) able, × about, armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, × bounty, broad, (broken-) handed, × by, charge, coast, consecrate, creditor, custody, debt, dominion, × enough, fellowship, force, × from, hand(-staves, -y work), × he, himself, × in, labour, large, ledge, (left-) handed, means, × mine, ministry, near, × of, × order, ordinance, × our, parts, pain, power, × presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, swear, terror, × thee, × by them, × themselves, × thine own, × thou, through, × throwing, thumb, times, × to, × under, × us, × wait on, (way-) side, where, wide, × with (him, me, you), work, yield, × yourselves.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders יָד:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,617 total
  1. Judges 16:26בְּיָדוֹ֮ · his hand
    Samson said to the servant who held his hand, “Lead me where I can feel the pillars supporting the temple, so I can lean against them.”
  2. Judges 17:3מִיָּדִ֜י
    And when he had returned the eleven hundred shekels of silver to his mother, she said, “I wholly dedicate the silver to the LORD for my son’s benefit, to make a graven image and a molten idol. Therefore I will now return it to you.”
  3. Judges 17:5יַ֤ד
    Now this man Micah had a shrine, and he made an ephod and some household idols, and ordained one of his sons as his priest.
  4. Judges 17:12יַ֣ד
    Micah ordained the Levite, and the young man became his priest and lived in his house.
  5. Judges 18:10יָדַ֔יִם; בְּיֶדְכֶ֑ם · into your hand
    When you enter, you will come to an unsuspecting people and a spacious land, for God has delivered it into your hand. It is a place where nothing on earth is lacking.”
  6. Judges 18:19יָדְךָ֤ · your hand
    “Be quiet,” they told him. “Put your hand over your mouth and come with us and be a father and a priest to us. Is it better for you to be a priest for the house of one person or a priest for a tribe and family in Israel?”
  7. Judges 19:27וְיָדֶ֖יהָ · with her hands
    In the morning, when her master got up and opened the doors of the house to go out on his journey, there was his concubine, collapsed in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold.
  8. Judges 20:16יַד־
    Among all these soldiers there were 700 select left-handers, each of whom could sling a stone at a hair without missing.
  9. Judges 20:28בְיָדֶֽךָ׃ · into your hand
    …and Phinehas son of Eleazar, the son of Aaron, served before it.) The Israelites asked, “Should we again go out to battle against our brothers the Benjamites, or should we stop?” The LORD answered, “Fight, for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand.”
  10. Ruth 1:13יַד־ · the hand
    …would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it is much more bitter for me than for you, because the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”
  11. Ruth 4:5מִיַּ֣ד · from
    Then Boaz said, “On the day you buy the land from Naomi and also from Ruth the Moabitess, you must also acquire the widow of the deceased in order to raise up the name of the deceased on his inheritance.”
  12. Ruth 4:9מִיַּ֖ד · from
    At this, Boaz said to the elders and all the people, “You are witnesses today that I am buying from Naomi all that belonged to Elimelech, Chilion, and Mahlon.
  13. 1 Samuel 2:13בְּיָדֽוֹ׃
    …or for the custom of the priests with the people. When any man offered a sacrifice, the servant of the priest would come with a three-pronged meat fork while the meat was boiling
  14. 1 Samuel 4:8מִיַּ֛ד · from the hand
    Woe to us! Who will deliver us from the hand of these mighty gods? These are the gods who struck the Egyptians with all kinds of plagues in the wilderness.
  15. 1 Samuel 4:18יַ֣ד · by
    As soon as the ark of God was mentioned, Eli fell backward from his chair by the city gate, and being old and heavy, he broke his neck and died. And Eli had judged Israel forty years.
  16. 1 Samuel 5:4יָדָ֗יו · his hands
    But when they got up early the next morning, there was Dagon, fallen on his face before the ark of the LORD, with his head and his hands broken off and lying on the threshold. Only the torso remained.
  17. 1 Samuel 5:6יַד־ · Now the hand
    Now the hand of the LORD was heavy on the people of Ashdod and its vicinity, ravaging them and afflicting them with tumors.
  18. 1 Samuel 5:7יָדוֹ֙ · His hand
    And when the men of Ashdod saw what was happening, they said, “The ark of the God of Israel must not stay here with us, because His hand is heavy upon us and upon our god Dagon.”
  19. 1 Samuel 5:9יַד־ · hand
    But after they had moved the ark to Gath, the LORD’s hand was also against that city, throwing it into great confusion and afflicting the men of the city, both young and old, with an outbreak of tumors.
  20. 1 Samuel 5:11יַ֥ד · the hand
    Then the Ekronites called together all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was very heavy upon it.
  21. 1 Samuel 6:3יָד֖וֹ · His hand
    They replied, “If you return the ark of the God of Israel, do not send it away empty, but by all means return it to Him with a guilt offering. Then you will be healed, and you will understand why His hand has not been lifted from you.”
  22. 1 Samuel 6:5יָדוֹ֙ · His hand
    Make images of your tumors and of the rats that are ravaging the land. Give glory to the God of Israel, and perhaps He will lift His hand from you and your gods and your land.
  23. 1 Samuel 6:9יָדוֹ֙ · His hand
    …but keep watching it. If it goes up the road to its homeland, toward Beth-shemesh, it is the LORD who has brought on us this great disaster. But if it does not, then we will know that it was not His hand that punished us and that it happened by chance.”
  24. 1 Samuel 7:3מִיַּ֥ד · from the hand
    Then Samuel said to all the house of Israel, “If you are returning to the LORD with all your hearts, then put away the foreign gods and Ashtoreths among you, prepare your hearts for the LORD, and serve Him only. And He will deliver you from the hand of the Philistines.”
  25. 1 Samuel 7:8מִיַּ֥ד · from the hand
    …and said to Samuel, “Do not stop crying out to the LORD our God for us, that He may save us from the hand of the Philistines.”
  26. 1 Samuel 7:13יַד־ · And the hand
    So the Philistines were subdued, and they stopped invading the territory of Israel. And the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.
  27. 1 Samuel 7:14מִיַּ֣ד · from the hand
    The cities from Ekron to Gath, which the Philistines had taken, were restored to Israel, who also delivered the surrounding territory from the hand of the Philistines. And there was peace between the Israelites and the Amorites.
  28. 1 Samuel 9:8בְיָדִ֔י · in my hand
    The servant answered him again. “Look,” he said, “I have here in my hand a quarter shekel of silver. I will give it to the man of God, and he will tell us our way.”
  29. 1 Samuel 9:16מִיַּ֣ד · from the hand
    “At this time tomorrow I will send you a man from the land of Benjamin, and you are to anoint him ruler over My people Israel; he will save them from the hand of the Philistines. For I have looked upon My people, because their cry has come to Me.”
  30. 1 Samuel 10:4מִיָּדָֽם׃ · from their hands
    They will greet you and give you two loaves of bread, which you will accept from their hands.
  31. 1 Samuel 10:7יָדֶ֔ךָ
    When these signs have come, do as the occasion demands, for God is with you.
  32. 1 Samuel 10:18מִיַּ֣ד · from the hands; וּמִיַּד֙
    …and said to the Israelites, “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I brought Israel up out of Egypt, and I rescued you from the hands of the Egyptians and of all the kingdoms that oppressed you.’
  33. 1 Samuel 11:7בְּיַ֣ד · by
    He took a pair of oxen, cut them into pieces, and sent them by messengers throughout the land of Israel, proclaiming, “This is what will be done to the oxen of anyone who does not march behind Saul and Samuel.” Then the terror of the LORD fell upon the people, and they came out together as one man.
  34. 1 Samuel 12:3וּמִיַּד־ · hand
    Here I am. Bear witness against me before the LORD and before His anointed: Whose ox or donkey have I taken? Whom have I cheated or oppressed? From whose hand have I accepted a bribe and closed my eyes? Tell me, and I will restore it to you.”
  35. 1 Samuel 12:4מִיַּד־ · from the hand
    “You have not cheated us or oppressed us,” they replied, “nor have you taken anything from the hand of man.”
  36. 1 Samuel 12:5בְּיָדִ֖י · in my hand
    Samuel said to them, “The LORD is a witness against you, and His anointed is a witness today, that you have not found anything in my hand.” “He is a witness,” they replied.
  37. 1 Samuel 12:9בְּיַ֣ד · into the hand; וּבְיַד־ · and into the hands; וּבְיַד֙
    But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.
  38. 1 Samuel 12:10מִיַּ֥ד · from the hands
    Then they cried out to the LORD and said, ‘We have sinned, for we have forsaken the LORD and served the Baals and Ashtoreths. Now deliver us from the hands of our enemies, that we may serve You.’
  39. 1 Samuel 12:11מִיַּ֤ד · from the hands
    So the LORD sent Jerubbaal, Barak, Jephthah, and Samuel, and He delivered you from the hands of your enemies on every side, and you dwelt securely.
  40. 1 Samuel 12:15יַד־ · then the hand
    But if you disobey the LORD and rebel against His command, then the hand of the LORD will be against you as it was against your fathers.
  41. 1 Samuel 13:22בְּיַ֣ד · in the hands
    So on the day of battle not a sword or spear could be found in the hands of the troops with Saul and Jonathan; only Saul and his son Jonathan had weapons.
  42. 1 Samuel 14:10בְּיָדֵ֑נוּ · into our hands
    But if they say, ‘Come on up,’ then we will go up, because this will be our sign that the LORD has delivered them into our hands.”
  43. 1 Samuel 14:12בְּיַ֥ד · into the hand
    So the men of the outpost called out to Jonathan and his armor-bearer, “Come on up, and we will teach you a lesson!” “Follow me,” Jonathan told his armor-bearer, “for the LORD has delivered them into the hand of Israel.”
  44. 1 Samuel 14:13יָדָיו֙ · on his hands
    So Jonathan climbed up on his hands and feet, with his armor-bearer behind him. And the Philistines fell before Jonathan, and his armor-bearer followed and finished them off.
  45. 1 Samuel 14:19יָדֶֽךָ׃ · your hand
    While Saul was talking to the priest, the commotion in the Philistine camp continued to increase. So Saul said to the priest, “Withdraw your hand.”
  46. 1 Samuel 14:26יָדוֹ֙ · his hand
    And when they entered the forest and saw the flowing honey, not one of them put his hand to his mouth, because they feared the oath.