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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. Nehemiah 13:21יָ֖ד · hands
    …but I warned them, “Why are you camping in front of the wall? If you do it again, I will lay hands on you.” From that time on, they did not return on the Sabbath.
  2. Esther 1:7כְּיַ֥ד · bounty
    Beverages were served in an array of goblets of gold, each with a different design, and the royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty.
  3. Esther 1:12בְּיַ֣ד · [brought] by
    Queen Vashti, however, refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs. And the king became furious, and his anger burned within him.
  4. Esther 1:15בְּיַ֖ד · delivered by
    “According to law,” he asked, “what should be done with Queen Vashti, since she refused to obey the command of King Xerxes delivered by the eunuchs?”
  5. Esther 2:3יַ֥ד · under the care
    …and let the king appoint commissioners in each province of his kingdom to assemble all the beautiful young women into the harem at the citadel of Susa. Let them be placed under the care of Hegai, the king’s eunuch in charge of the women, and let them be given beauty treatments.
  6. Esther 2:8יַ֣ד · the care; יַ֥ד · the care
    When the king’s command and edict had been proclaimed, many young women gathered at the citadel of Susa under the care of Hegai. Esther was also taken to the palace and placed under the care of Hegai, the custodian of the women.
  7. Esther 2:14יַ֧ד · the care
    She would go there in the evening, and in the morning she would return to a second harem under the care of Shaashgaz, the king’s eunuch in charge of the concubines. She would not return to the king unless he delighted in her and summoned her by name.
  8. Esther 2:18כְּיַ֥ד · bounty
    Then the king held a great banquet, Esther’s banquet, for all his officials and servants. He proclaimed a tax holiday in the provinces and gave gifts worthy of the king’s bounty.
  9. Esther 2:21יָ֔ד
    In those days, while Mordecai was sitting at the king’s gate, Bigthan and Teresh, two of the king’s eunuchs who guarded the entrance, grew angry and conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
  10. Esther 3:6יָד֙ · hands
    And when he learned the identity of Mordecai’s people, he scorned the notion of laying hands on Mordecai alone. Instead, he sought to destroy all of Mordecai’s people, the Jews, throughout the kingdom of Xerxes.
  11. Esther 3:9יְדֵי֙
    If it pleases the king, let a decree be issued to destroy them, and I will deposit ten thousand talents of silver into the royal treasury to pay those who carry it out.”
  12. Esther 3:10יָד֑וֹ · his finger
    So the king removed the signet ring from his finger and gave it to Haman son of Hammedatha, the Agagite, the enemy of the Jews.
  13. Esther 3:13בְּיַ֣ד · by
    And the letters were sent by couriers to each of the royal provinces with the order to destroy, kill, and annihilate all the Jews—young and old, women and children—and to plunder their possessions on a single day, the thirteenth day of Adar, the twelfth month.
  14. Esther 5:2בְּיָד֔וֹ · in his hand
    As soon as the king saw Queen Esther standing in the court, she found favor in his sight. The king extended the gold scepter in his hand toward Esther, and she approached and touched the tip of the scepter.
  15. Esther 6:2יָ֔ד
    And there it was found recorded that Mordecai had exposed Bigthana and Teresh, two of the eunuchs who guarded the king’s entrance, when they had conspired to assassinate King Xerxes.
  16. Esther 6:9יַד־
    Let the robe and the horse be entrusted to one of the king’s most noble princes. Let them array the man the king wants to honor and parade him on the horse through the city square, proclaiming before him, ‘This is what is done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor!’”
  17. Esther 8:7יָד֖וֹ
    So King Xerxes said to Esther the Queen and Mordecai the Jew, “Behold, I have given Haman’s estate to Esther, and he was hanged on the gallows because he attacked the Jews.
  18. Esther 8:10בְּיַד֩ · by
    Mordecai wrote in the name of King Xerxes and sealed it with the royal signet ring. He sent the documents by mounted couriers riding on swift horses bred from the royal mares.
  19. Esther 9:2יָ֔ד
    In each of the provinces of King Xerxes, the Jews assembled in their cities to attack those who sought to harm them. No man could withstand them, because the fear of them had fallen upon all peoples.
  20. Esther 9:10יָדָֽם׃ · a hand
    They killed these ten sons of Haman son of Hammedatha, the enemy of the Jews, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  21. Esther 9:15יָדָֽם׃ · a hand
    On the fourteenth day of the month of Adar, the Jews in Susa came together again and put to death three hundred men there, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  22. Esther 9:16יָדָֽם׃ · a hand
    The rest of the Jews in the royal provinces also assembled to defend themselves and rid themselves of their enemies. They killed 75,000 who hated them, but they did not lay a hand on the plunder.
  23. Job 1:10יָדָיו֙ · of his hands
    Have You not placed a hedge on every side around him and his household and all that he owns? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his possessions have increased in the land.
  24. Job 1:11יָֽדְךָ֔ · Your hand
    But stretch out Your hand and strike all that he has, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
  25. Job 1:12בְּיָדֶ֔ךָ · in your hands; יָדֶ֑ךָ · a hand
    “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “Everything he has is in your hands, but you must not lay a hand on the man himself.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
  26. Job 1:14יְדֵיהֶֽם׃
    …a messenger came and reported to Job: “While the oxen were plowing and the donkeys were grazing nearby,
  27. Job 2:5יָֽדְךָ֔ · Your hand
    But stretch out Your hand and strike his flesh and bones, and he will surely curse You to Your face.”
  28. Job 2:6בְיָדֶ֑ךָ · He is in your hands
    “Very well,” said the LORD to Satan. “He is in your hands, but you must spare his life.”
  29. Job 4:3וְיָדַ֖יִם · hands
    Surely you have instructed many, and have strengthened their feeble hands.
  30. Job 5:12יְ֝דֵיהֶ֗ם · so that their hands
    He thwarts the schemes of the crafty, so that their hands find no success.
  31. Job 5:15וּמִיַּ֖ד · and from the clutches
    He saves the needy from the sword in their mouth and from the clutches of the powerful.
  32. Job 5:18וְיָדוֹ · but His hands
    For He wounds, but He also binds; He strikes, but His hands also heal.
  33. Job 5:20מִ֣ידֵי · from the stroke
    In famine He will redeem you from death, and in battle from the stroke of the sword.
  34. Job 6:9יָ֝ד֗וֹ · His hand
    …that God would be willing to crush me, to unleash His hand and cut me off!
  35. Job 6:23מִיַּד־ · from the hand; וּמִיַּ֖ד · from the grasp
    …deliver me from the hand of the enemy; redeem me from the grasp of the ruthless’?
  36. Job 8:4בְּיַד־
    When your children sinned against Him, He gave them over to their rebellion.
  37. Job 8:20בְּיַד־ · the hand
    Behold, God does not reject the blameless, nor will He strengthen the hand of evildoers.
  38. Job 9:24בְֽיַד־ · into the hand
    The earth is given into the hand of the wicked; He blindfolds its judges. If it is not He, then who is it?
  39. Job 9:33יָד֣וֹ · his hand
    Nor is there a mediator between us, to lay his hand upon us both.
  40. Job 10:7מִיָּדְךָ֣ · from Your hand
    …though You know that I am not guilty, and there is no deliverance from Your hand?
  41. Job 10:8יָדֶ֣יךָ · Your hands
    Your hands shaped me and altogether formed me. Would You now turn and destroy me?
  42. Job 11:14בְּ֭יָדְךָ · in your hand
    …if you put away the iniquity in your hand, and allow no injustice to dwell in your tents,
  43. Job 12:6בְּיָדֽוֹ׃ · in their hands
    The tents of robbers are safe, and those who provoke God are secure—those who carry their god in their hands.
  44. Job 12:9יַד־ · the hand
    Which of all these does not know that the hand of the LORD has done this?
  45. Job 12:10בְּ֭יָדוֹ · is in His hand
    The life of every living thing is in His hand, as well as the breath of all mankind.
  46. Job 14:15יָדֶ֣יךָ · of Your hands
    You will call, and I will answer; You will desire the work of Your hands.
  47. Job 15:23בְּיָד֣וֹ · is at hand
    He wanders about as food for vultures; he knows the day of darkness is at hand.