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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. Joshua 10:8בְיָדְךָ֖ · into your hand
    The LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for I have delivered them into your hand. Not one of them shall stand against you.”
  2. Joshua 10:19בְּיֶדְכֶֽם׃ · into your hand
    But you, do not stop there. Pursue your enemies and attack them from behind. Do not let them reach their cities, for the LORD your God has delivered them into your hand.”
  3. Joshua 10:30בְּיַ֣ד · into the hand
    And the LORD also delivered that city and its king into the hand of Israel, and Joshua put all the people to the sword, leaving no survivors. And he did to the king of Libnah as he had done to the king of Jericho.
  4. Joshua 10:32בְּיַ֣ד · into the hand
    And the LORD delivered Lachish into the hand of Israel, and Joshua captured it on the second day. He put all the people to the sword, just as he had done to Libnah.
  5. Joshua 11:8בְּיַֽד־ · into the hand
    …and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Israel, who struck them down and pursued them all the way to Greater Sidon and Misrephoth-maim, and eastward as far as the Valley of Mizpeh. They struck them down, leaving no survivors.
  6. Joshua 14:2בְּיַד־ · through
    Their inheritance was assigned by lot for the nine and a half tribes, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
  7. Joshua 15:46יַ֥ד
    …from Ekron to the sea, all the cities near Ashdod, along with their villages;
  8. Joshua 20:2בְּיַד־ · you through
    “Tell the Israelites to designate the cities of refuge, as I instructed you through Moses,
  9. Joshua 20:5בְּיָד֑וֹ · into his hand
    Now if the avenger of blood pursues him, they must not surrender the manslayer into his hand, because that man killed his neighbor accidentally without prior malice.
  10. Joshua 20:9בְּיַד֙ · by the hand
    These are the cities appointed for all the Israelites and foreigners among them, so that anyone who kills a person unintentionally may flee there and not die by the hand of the avenger of blood prior to standing trial before the assembly.
  11. Joshua 21:2בְיַד־ · through
    …at Shiloh in the land of Canaan and said to them, “The LORD commanded through Moses that we be given cities in which to live, together with pasturelands for our livestock.”
  12. Joshua 21:8בְּיַד־ · through
    So the Israelites allotted to the Levites these cities, together with their pasturelands, as the LORD had commanded through Moses.
  13. Joshua 21:44בְּיָדָֽם׃ · into their hand
    And the LORD gave them rest on every side, just as He had sworn to their fathers. None of their enemies could stand against them, for the LORD delivered all their enemies into their hand.
  14. Joshua 22:9בְּיַד־ · through
    So the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead, which they had acquired according to the command of the LORD through Moses.
  15. Joshua 22:31מִיַּ֥ד · from the hand
    Phinehas son of Eleazar the priest said to the descendants of Reuben, Gad, and Manasseh, “Today we know that the LORD is among us, because you have not committed this breach of faith against Him. Consequently, you have delivered the Israelites from the hand of the LORD.”
  16. Joshua 24:8בְּיֶדְכֶם֙ · into your hand
    Later, I brought you to the land of the Amorites who lived beyond the Jordan. They fought against you, but I delivered them into your hand, that you should possess their land when I destroyed them before you.
  17. Joshua 24:10מִיָּדֽוֹ׃ · from his hand
    …but I would not listen to Balaam. So he blessed you again and again, and I delivered you from his hand.
  18. Joshua 24:11בְּיֶדְכֶֽם׃ · into your hand
    After this, you crossed the Jordan and came to Jericho. The people of Jericho fought against you, as did the Amorites, Perizzites, Canaanites, Hittites, Girgashites, Hivites, and Jebusites, and I delivered them into your hand.
  19. Judges 1:2בְּיָדֽוֹ׃ · into their hands
    “Judah shall go up,” answered the LORD. “Indeed, I have delivered the land into their hands.”
  20. Judges 1:4בְּיָדָ֑ם · into their hands
    When Judah attacked, the LORD delivered the Canaanites and Perizzites into their hands, and they struck down ten thousand men at Bezek.
  21. Judges 1:6יָדָ֖יו
    As Adoni-bezek fled, they pursued him, seized him, and cut off his thumbs and big toes.
  22. Judges 1:7יְדֵיהֶ֨ם
    Then Adoni-bezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have gathered the scraps under my table. As I have done to them, so God has repaid me.” And they brought him to Jerusalem, where he died.
  23. Judges 1:35יַ֣ד · in strength
    And the Amorites were determined to dwell in Mount Heres, Aijalon, and Shaalbim. But when the house of Joseph grew in strength, they pressed the Amorites into forced labor.
  24. Judges 2:14בְּיַד־ · into the hands; בְּיַ֤ד · into the hands
    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He delivered them into the hands of those who plundered them. He sold them into the hands of their enemies all around, whom they were no longer able to resist.
  25. Judges 2:15יַד־ · the hand
    Wherever Israel marched out, the hand of the LORD was against them to bring calamity, just as He had sworn to them. So they were greatly distressed.
  26. Judges 2:16מִיַּ֖ד · from the hands
    Then the LORD raised up judges, who saved them from the hands of those who plundered them.
  27. Judges 2:18מִיַּ֣ד · from the hands
    Whenever the LORD raised up a judge for the Israelites, He was with that judge and saved them from the hands of their enemies while the judge was still alive; for the LORD was moved to pity by their groaning under those who oppressed them and afflicted them.
  28. Judges 2:23בְּיַד־ · into the hand
    That is why the LORD had left those nations in place and had not driven them out immediately by delivering them into the hand of Joshua.
  29. Judges 3:4בְּיַד־ · through
    These nations were left to test the Israelites, to find out whether they would keep the commandments of the LORD, which He had given their fathers through Moses.
  30. Judges 3:8בְּיַד֙ · into the hand
    Then the anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He sold them into the hand of Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram-naharaim, and the Israelites served him eight years.
  31. Judges 3:10בְּיָד֔וֹ · into the hand [of Othniel]; יָד֔וֹ
    The Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he became Israel’s judge and went out to war. And the LORD delivered Cushan-rishathaim king of Aram into the hand of Othniel, who prevailed against him.
  32. Judges 3:15יַד־; בְּיָדוֹ֙ · him
    And again they cried out to the LORD, and He raised up Ehud son of Gera, a left-handed Benjamite, as their deliverer. So they sent him with tribute to Eglon king of Moab.
  33. Judges 3:21יַ֣ד · hand
    And Ehud reached with his left hand, pulled the sword from his right thigh, and plunged it into Eglon’s belly.
  34. Judges 3:28בְּיֶדְכֶ֑ם · into your hand
    “Follow me,” he told them, “for the LORD has delivered your enemies the Moabites into your hand.” So they followed him down and seized the fords of the Jordan leading to Moab, and they did not allow anyone to cross over.
  35. Judges 3:30יַ֣ד · the hand
    So Moab was subdued under the hand of Israel that day, and the land had rest for eighty years.
  36. Judges 4:2בְּיַד֙ · into the hand
    So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
  37. Judges 4:7בְּיָדֶֽךָ׃ · into your hand
    And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.’”
  38. Judges 4:9בְֽיַד־ · into the hand
    “I will certainly go with you,” Deborah replied, “but the road you are taking will bring you no honor, because the LORD will be selling Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh,
  39. Judges 4:14בְּיָדֶ֔ךָ · into your hand
    Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
  40. Judges 4:21בְּיָדָ֗הּ
    But as he lay sleeping from exhaustion, Heber’s wife Jael took a tent peg, grabbed a hammer, and went silently to Sisera. She drove the peg through his temple and into the ground, and he died.
  41. Judges 4:24יַ֤ד · And the hand
    And the hand of the Israelites grew stronger and stronger against Jabin king of Canaan until they destroyed him.
  42. Judges 5:26יָדָהּ֙ · hand
    She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
  43. Judges 6:1בְּיַד־ · into the hand
    Again the Israelites did evil in the sight of the LORD; so He delivered them into the hand of Midian for seven years,
  44. Judges 6:2יַד־ · and the hand
    …and the hand of Midian prevailed against Israel. Because of the Midianites, the Israelites prepared shelters for themselves in the mountains, caves, and strongholds.
  45. Judges 6:9מִיַּ֣ד · out of the hands; וּמִיַּ֖ד · [and]
    I delivered you out of the hands of Egypt and all your oppressors. I drove them out before you and gave you their land.
  46. Judges 6:21בְּיָד֔וֹ · was in his hand
    Then the angel of the LORD extended the tip of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread. And fire flared from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of the LORD vanished from his sight.