יָד

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:

χείρcheir“hand”94%

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

1,617 total

2 Samuel 12:7מִיַּ֥ד · from the hand
Then Nathan said to David, “You are that man! This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I anointed you king over Israel, and I delivered you from the hand of Saul.
2 Samuel 12:25בְּיַד֙ · [word] through
…and sent word through Nathan the prophet to name him Jedidiah because the LORD loved him.
2 Samuel 13:5מִיָּדָֽהּ׃ · from her hand
Jonadab told him, “Lie down on your bed and pretend you are ill. When your father comes to see you, say to him, ‘Please let my sister Tamar come and give me something to eat. Let her prepare it in my sight so I may watch her and eat it from her hand.’”
2 Samuel 13:6מִיָּדָֽהּ׃ · from her hand
So Amnon lay down and feigned illness. When the king came to see him, Amnon said, “Please let my sister Tamar come and make a couple of cakes in my sight, so that I may eat from her hand.”
2 Samuel 13:10מִיָּדֵ֑ךְ · from your hand
Then Amnon said to Tamar, “Bring the food into the bedroom, so that I may eat it from your hand.” Tamar took the cakes she had made and went to her brother Amnon’s bedroom.
2 Samuel 13:19יָדָהּ֙ · her hand
And Tamar put ashes on her head and tore her robe. And putting her hand on her head, she went away crying aloud.
2 Samuel 14:19הֲיַ֥ד · Is the hand
So the king asked, “Is the hand of Joab behind all this?” The woman answered, “As surely as you live, my lord the king, no one can turn to the right or to the left from anything that my lord the king says. Yes, your servant Joab is the one who gave me orders; he told your maidservant exactly what to say.
2 Samuel 14:30יָדִי֙ · mine
Then Absalom said to his servants, “Look, Joab’s field is next to mine, and he has barley there. Go and set it on fire!” And Absalom’s servants set the field on fire.
2 Samuel 15:2יַ֖ד
He would get up early and stand beside the road leading to the city gate. Whenever anyone had a grievance to bring before the king for a decision, Absalom would call out and ask, “What city are you from?” And if he replied, “Your servant is from one of the tribes of Israel,”
2 Samuel 15:5יָד֛וֹ · his hand
Also, when anyone approached to bow down to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him.
2 Samuel 15:18יָד֔וֹ · him
…and all his servants marched past him—all the Cherethites and Pelethites, and six hundred Gittites who had followed him from Gath.
2 Samuel 15:36בְּיָדָם֙ · them
Indeed, their two sons, Ahimaaz son of Zadok and Jonathan son of Abiathar, are there with them. Send them to me with everything you hear.”
2 Samuel 16:8בְּיַ֖ד · into the hand
The LORD has paid you back for all the blood of the house of Saul, in whose place you have reigned, and the LORD has delivered the kingdom into the hand of your son Absalom. See, you have come to ruin because you are a man of bloodshed!”
2 Samuel 16:21יְדֵ֖י · then the hands
Ahithophel replied, “Sleep with your father’s concubines, whom he has left to take care of the palace. When all Israel hears that you have become a stench to your father, then the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”
2 Samuel 17:2יָדַ֔יִם
I will attack him while he is weak and weary; I will throw him into a panic, and all the people with him will flee; I will strike down only the king
2 Samuel 18:2בְּיַד־; בְּיַ֨ד; בְּיַ֖ד
He sent out the troops, a third under Joab, a third under Joab’s brother Abishai son of Zeruiah, and a third under Ittai the Gittite. And the king said to the troops, “I will surely march out with you as well.”
2 Samuel 18:4יַ֣ד
“I will do whatever seems best to you,” the king replied. So he stood beside the gate, while all the troops marched out by hundreds and by thousands.
2 Samuel 18:12יָדִ֖י · my hand
The man replied, “Even if a thousand shekels of silver were weighed out into my hands, I would not raise my hand against the son of the king. For we heard the king command you and Abishai and Ittai, ‘Protect the young man Absalom for my sake.’
2 Samuel 18:18יַ֣ד · Monument
During his lifetime, Absalom had set up for himself a pillar in the King’s Valley, for he had said, “I have no son to preserve the memory of my name.” So he gave the pillar his name, and to this day it is called Absalom’s Monument.
2 Samuel 18:19מִיַּ֥ד · of
Then Ahimaaz son of Zadok said, “Please let me run and tell the king the good news that the LORD has avenged him of his enemies.”
2 Samuel 18:28יָדָ֖ם · their hands
Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he bowed facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.”
2 Samuel 18:31מִיַּ֖ד · of
Just then the Cushite came and said, “May my lord the king hear the good news: Today the LORD has avenged you of all who rose up against you!”
2 Samuel 19:43יָד֨וֹת · shares
“We have ten shares in the king,” answered the men of Israel, “so we have more claim to David than you. Why then do you despise us? Were we not the first to speak of restoring our king?” But the men of Judah spoke more fiercely than the men of Israel.
2 Samuel 20:9יַד־ · hand
“Are you well, my brother?” Joab asked Amasa. And with his right hand Joab grabbed Amasa by the beard to kiss him.
2 Samuel 20:10בְּיַד־ · hand
Amasa was not on guard against the dagger in Joab’s hand, and Joab stabbed him in the stomach and spilled out his intestines on the ground. And Joab did not need to strike him again, for Amasa was dead. Then Joab and his brother Abishai pursued Sheba son of Bichri.
2 Samuel 20:21יָדוֹ֙ · up his hand
That is not the case. But a man named Sheba son of Bichri, from the hill country of Ephraim, has lifted up his hand against the king, against David. Deliver him alone, and I will depart from the city.” “Look,” the woman replied, “his head will be thrown to you over the wall.”
2 Samuel 21:9בְּיַ֣ד · into the hands
And he delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the hill before the LORD. So all seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the first days of the harvest, at the beginning of the barley harvest.
2 Samuel 21:20יָדָיו֩ · on each hand
And there was also a battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
2 Samuel 21:22בְיַד־ · at the hands; וּבְיַ֥ד
So these four descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.
2 Samuel 22:21יָדַ֖י · of my hands
The LORD has rewarded me according to my righteousness; He has repaid me according to the cleanness of my hands.
2 Samuel 22:35יָדַ֖י · my hands
He trains my hands for battle; my arms can bend a bow of bronze.
2 Samuel 23:6בְיָ֖ד · by hand
But the worthless are all like thorns raked aside, for they can never be gathered by hand.
2 Samuel 23:10יָד֗וֹ · his hand; יָדוֹ֙
…but Eleazar stood his ground and struck the Philistines until his hand grew weary and stuck to his sword. The LORD brought about a great victory that day. Then the troops returned to him, but only to plunder the dead.
2 Samuel 23:21וּבְיַ֤ד · in his hand; מִיַּ֣ד · hand
He also struck down an Egyptian, a huge man. Although the Egyptian had a spear in his hand, Benaiah went against him with a club, snatched the spear from his hand, and killed the Egyptian with his own spear.
2 Samuel 24:14בְיַד־ · into the hand; וּבְיַד־ · into the hands
David answered Gad, “I am deeply distressed. Please, let us fall into the hand of the LORD, for His mercies are great; but do not let me fall into the hands of men.”
2 Samuel 24:16יָד֨וֹ · out his hand; יָדֶ֑ךָ · your hand
But when the angel stretched out his hand to destroy Jerusalem, the LORD relented from the calamity and said to the angel who was destroying the people, “Enough! Withdraw your hand now!” At that time the angel of the LORD was by the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.
2 Samuel 24:17יָדְךָ֛ · let Your hand
When David saw the angel striking down the people, he said to the LORD, “Surely I, the shepherd, have sinned and acted wickedly. But these sheep, what have they done? Please, let Your hand fall upon me and my father’s house.”
1 Kings 2:25בְּיַ֖ד · to
So King Solomon gave orders to Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he struck down Adonijah and he died.
1 Kings 2:46בְּיַד־ · in the hand
Then the king commanded Benaiah son of Jehoiada, and he went out and struck Shimei down, and he died. Thus the kingdom was firmly established in the hand of Solomon.
1 Kings 7:32וִיד֥וֹת · and the axles
There were four wheels under the panels, and the axles of the wheels were attached to the stand; each wheel was a cubit and a half in diameter.
1 Kings 7:33יְדוֹתָ֣ם · their axles
The wheels were made like chariot wheels; their axles, rims, spokes, and hubs were all of cast metal.
1 Kings 7:35יְדֹתֶ֔יהָ · The supports
At the top of each stand was a circular band half a cubit high. The supports and panels were cast as a unit with the top of the stand.
1 Kings 7:36יְדֹתֶ֔יהָ · of the supports
He engraved cherubim, lions, and palm trees on the surfaces of the supports and panels, wherever each had space, with wreaths all around.