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.
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
Occurrences
1,617 total
- Ezekiel 23:42יְדֵיהֶ֔ן · your wrists…accompanied by the sound of a carefree crowd. Drunkards were brought in from the desert along with men from the rabble, who put bracelets on your wrists and beautiful crowns on your head.
- Ezekiel 23:45בִּֽידֵיהֶֽן׃ס · on their handsBut righteous men will sentence them to the punishment of those who commit adultery and bloodshed, because they are adulteresses with blood on their hands.
- Ezekiel 25:6יָ֔ד · your handsFor this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Because you clapped your hands and stomped your feet and rejoiced over the land of Israel with a heart full of contempt,
- Ezekiel 25:7יָדִ֜י · My hand…therefore I will indeed stretch out My hand against you and give you as plunder to the nations. I will cut you off from the peoples and exterminate you from the countries. I will destroy you, and you will know that I am the LORD.’
- Ezekiel 25:13יָדִי֙ · My hand…therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I will stretch out My hand against Edom and cut off from it both man and beast. I will make it a wasteland, and from Teman to Dedan they will fall by the sword.
- Ezekiel 25:14בְּיַד֙ · by the handI will take My vengeance on Edom by the hand of My people Israel, and they will deal with Edom according to My anger and wrath. Then they will know My vengeance, declares the Lord GOD.’
- Ezekiel 25:16יָדִי֙ · My hand…therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
- Ezekiel 27:15יָדֵ֑ךְThe men of Dedan were your clients; many coastlands were your market; they paid you with ivory tusks and ebony.
- Ezekiel 27:21יָדֵ֑ךְArabia and all the princes of Kedar were your customers, trading in lambs, rams, and goats.
- Ezekiel 28:9בְּיַ֥ד · in the handsWill you still say, ‘I am a god,’ in the presence of those who slay you? You will be only a man, not a god, in the hands of those who wound you.
- Ezekiel 28:10בְּיַד־ · at the handsYou will die the death of the uncircumcised at the hands of foreigners. For I have spoken, declares the Lord GOD.”
- Ezekiel 30:10בְּיַ֖ד · by the handThis is what the Lord GOD says: I will put an end to the hordes of Egypt by the hand of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon.
- Ezekiel 30:12בְּיַד־ · to; בְּיַד־ · By the handsI will make the streams dry up and sell the land to the wicked. By the hands of foreigners I will bring desolation upon the land and everything in it. I, the LORD, have spoken.
- Ezekiel 30:22מִיָּדֽוֹ׃ · from his handTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against Pharaoh king of Egypt. I will break his arms, both the strong one and the one already broken, and will make the sword fall from his hand.
- Ezekiel 30:24בְּיָד֑וֹ · in his handI will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king and place My sword in his hand, but I will break the arms of Pharaoh, who will groan before him like a mortally wounded man.
- Ezekiel 30:25בְּיַ֣ד · in the handI will strengthen the arms of Babylon’s king, but Pharaoh’s arms will fall limp. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I place My sword in the hand of Babylon’s king, and he wields it against the land of Egypt.
- Ezekiel 31:11בְּיַ֖ד · into the handI delivered it into the hand of the ruler of the nations, for him to deal with it according to its wickedness. I have banished it.
- Ezekiel 33:6מִיַּֽד־But if the watchman sees the sword coming and fails to blow the horn to warn the people, and the sword comes and takes away a life, then that one will be taken away in his iniquity, but I will hold the watchman accountable for his blood.’
- Ezekiel 33:8מִיָּדְךָ֥ · yet I will hold you accountable forIf I say to the wicked, ‘O wicked man, you will surely die,’ but you do not speak out to dissuade him from his way, then that wicked man will die in his iniquity, yet I will hold you accountable for his blood.
- Ezekiel 33:22וְיַד־ · the handNow the evening before the fugitive arrived, the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He opened my mouth before the man came to me in the morning. So my mouth was opened and I was no longer mute.
- Ezekiel 34:10מִיָּדָ֗ם · from themThis is what the Lord GOD says: ‘Behold, I am against the shepherds, and I will demand from them My flock and remove them from tending the flock, so that they can no longer feed themselves. For I will deliver My flock from their mouths, and it will no longer be food for them.’
- Ezekiel 34:27מִיַּ֖ד · from the handsThe trees of the field will give their fruit, and the land will yield its produce; My flock will be secure in their land. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I have broken the bars of their yoke and delivered them from the hands that enslaved them.
- Ezekiel 35:3יָדִי֙ · My hand…and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I am against you, O Mount Seir. I will stretch out My hand against you and make you a desolate waste.
- Ezekiel 35:5יְדֵי־Because you harbored an ancient hatred and delivered the Israelites over to the sword in the time of their disaster at the final stage of their punishment,
- Ezekiel 36:7יָדִ֑י · with an uplifted handTherefore this is what the Lord GOD says: I have sworn with an uplifted hand that surely the nations around you will endure reproach of their own.
- Ezekiel 37:1יַד־ · The handThe hand of the LORD was upon me, and He brought me out by His Spirit and set me down in the middle of the valley, and it was full of bones.
- Ezekiel 37:17בְּיָדֶֽךָ׃ · in your handThen join them together into one stick, so that they become one in your hand.
- Ezekiel 37:19בְּיַד־ · is in the hand; בְּיָדִֽי׃ · in My hand…you are to tell them that this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will take the stick of Joseph, which is in the hand of Ephraim, and the tribes of Israel associated with him, and I will put them together with the stick of Judah. I will make them into a single stick, and they will become one in My hand.’
- Ezekiel 37:20בְּיָדְךָ֖ · in your handWhen the sticks on which you write are in your hand and in full view of the people,
- Ezekiel 38:12יָדְךָ֜ · a hand…in order to seize the spoil and carry off the plunder, to turn a hand against the desolate places now inhabited and against a people gathered from the nations, who have acquired livestock and possessions and who live at the center of the land.’
- Ezekiel 38:17בְּיַד֙ · throughThis is what the Lord GOD says: Are you the one of whom I have spoken in former days through My servants, the prophets of Israel, who in those times prophesied for years that I would bring you against them?
- Ezekiel 39:3מִיַּ֣ד · hand; מִיַּ֥ד · handThen I will strike the bow from your left hand and dash down the arrows from your right hand.
- Ezekiel 39:9יָ֖דThen those who dwell in the cities of Israel will go out, kindle fires, and burn up the weapons—the bucklers and shields, the bows and arrows, the clubs and spears. For seven years they will use them for fuel.
- Ezekiel 39:21יָדִ֖י · and the handI will display My glory among the nations, and all the nations will see the judgment that I execute and the hand that I lay upon them.
- Ezekiel 39:23בְּיַ֣ד · into the handsAnd the nations will know that the house of Israel went into exile for their iniquity, because they were unfaithful to Me. So I hid My face from them and delivered them into the hands of their enemies, so that they all fell by the sword.
- Ezekiel 40:1יַד־ · the handIn the twenty-fifth year of our exile, at the beginning of the year, on the tenth day of the month—in the fourteenth year after Jerusalem had been struck down—on that very day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and He took me there.
- Ezekiel 40:3בְּיָד֖וֹ · in his handSo He took me there, and I saw a man whose appearance was like bronze. He was standing in the gateway with a linen cord and a measuring rod in his hand.
- Ezekiel 40:5וּבְיַ֨ד · handAnd I saw a wall surrounding the temple area. Now the length of the measuring rod in the man’s hand was six long cubits (each measuring a cubit and a handbreadth), and he measured the wall to be one rod thick and one rod high.
- Ezekiel 43:26יָדוֹ׃ · itFor seven days the priests are to make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so they shall consecrate it.
- Ezekiel 44:12יָדִ֜י · handBecause they ministered before their idols and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel, therefore I swore with an uplifted hand concerning them that they would bear the consequences of their iniquity, declares the Lord GOD.
- Ezekiel 46:5יָד֑וֹ · as much as he is ableThe grain offering with the ram shall be one ephah, and the grain offering with the lambs shall be as much as he is able, along with a hin of oil per ephah.
- Ezekiel 46:7יָד֑וֹHe is to provide a grain offering of an ephah with the bull, an ephah with the ram, and as much as he is able with the lambs, along with a hin of oil per ephah.
- Ezekiel 46:11יָד֑וֹ · and as much as one is ableAt the festivals and appointed feasts, the grain offering shall be an ephah with a bull, an ephah with a ram, and as much as one is able to give with the lambs, along with a hin of oil per ephah.
- Ezekiel 47:3בְּיָד֑וֹ · in his handAs the man went eastward with a measuring line in his hand, he measured off a thousand cubits and led me through ankle-deep water.
- Ezekiel 47:14יָדִ֔י · handYou are to divide it equally among them. Because I swore with an uplifted hand to give it to your forefathers, this land will fall to you as an inheritance.
- Ezekiel 48:1יַ֣ד; יַ֣ד“Now these are the names of the tribes: At the northern frontier, Dan will have one portion bordering the road of Hethlon to Lebo-hamath and running on to Hazar-enan on the border of Damascus with Hamath to the north, and extending from the east side to the west side.