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Lexicon :: Strong's H3206 - yeleḏ

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יֶלֶד
Transliteration
yeleḏ
Pronunciation
yeh'-led
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 867b

Strong’s Definitions

יֶלֶד yeled, yeh'-led; from H3205; something born, i.e. a lad or offspring:—boy, child, fruit, son, young man (one).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 89x

The KJV translates Strong's H3206 in the following manner: child (72x), young man (7x), young ones (3x), sons (3x), boy (2x), fruit (1x), variant (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 89x
The KJV translates Strong's H3206 in the following manner: child (72x), young man (7x), young ones (3x), sons (3x), boy (2x), fruit (1x), variant (1x).

  1. child, son, boy, offspring, youth

    1. child, son, boy

    2. child, children

    3. descendants

    4. youth

    5. apostate Israelites (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יֶלֶד yeled, yeh'-led; from H3205; something born, i.e. a lad or offspring:—boy, child, fruit, son, young man (one).
STRONGS H3206: Abbreviations
† יֶ֫לֶד 89 noun masculineGenesis 21:8 child, son, boy, youth; — יֶּ֫לֶד absolute Genesis 4:23 +; construct Jeremiah 31:20; יָ֫לֶד Genesis 21:16 +; plural יְלָדִים Genesis 33:1 +; construct יַלְדֵי Exodus 2:6 + 2 times; יִלְדֵיֿ Isaiah 57:4; suffix יְלָדַי Genesis 30:26; 2 Kings 4:1; יַלְדֵיהֶם Job 21:11; יַלְדֵיהֶן Genesis 33:2 + 4 times, etc.; —
a. child = son, boy, Genesis 21:8, 14, 15, 16; Genesis 37:30; Genesis 42:32 (all E), Genesis 32:23 (Dinah not included), compare Genesis 30:26; Genesis 33:1, 2(twice in verse); Genesis 33:5 (twice in verse); Genesis 33:6, 7, 13; Genesis 37:14; Genesis 44:20 (all J); Exodus 1:17, 18 (|| בֵּן Exodus 1:16), Exodus 2:3, 6 (twice in verse); Exodus 2:7, 8, 9 (twice in verse); Exodus 2:10 (all E), Exodus 21:4 (E; app. = sons + daughters, but || בָּנָי֫ Exodus 21:5); plural = offspring Exodus 21:24 (E; Hexateuch, only Genesis & Exodus, J E); also Ruth 1:5; Ruth 4:16; 2 Samuel 12:15, 18 (4 times in verse); 2 Samuel 12:19 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 12:21 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 12:22 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 3:25 (compare 1 Kings 3:20), 1 Kings 14:12; 1 Kings 17:21 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 17:22, 23; 2 Kings 4:1 (compare 2 Kings 4:5) 2 Kings 4:18; 2 Kings 4:26; 2 Kings 4:34; 2 Kings 4:34; Isaiah 8:18; Isaiah 9:5 (|| בֵּן), Joel 3:3 [Joel 4:3] (opposed to יַלְדָּה), Zechariah 8:5 (id.); of young of raven Job 38:41; of wild goats and hinds Job 39:3; of cow and bear Isaiah 11:7.
b. (little) child, children 1 Samuel 1:2 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 6:23; Ezra 10:1; Nehemiah 12:43; Job 21:11 (|| עֲוִילִים), Hosea 1:2; Lamentations 4:10; Isaiah 57:5.
c. descendants Isaiah 29:23, יַלְדֵי נכרים (compare בֵּן) Isaiah 2:6.
d. youth Genesis 4:23 (J), 1 Kings 12:8, 10, 14 2 Chronicles 10:8; 10:10; 10:14; Daniel 1:4; Daniel 1:10; Daniel 1:13; Daniel 1:15; Daniel 1:17 compare 2 Kings 2:24 (|| נְעָרִים קְטַנִּים 2 Kings 2:23), Ecclesiastes 4:13, 15.
e. figurative of apostate Israelites יִלְדֵיפֶֿשַׁע Isaiah 57:4 (|| זֶרַע שָׁ֑קֶר); compare, in good sense, ילד שַׁעֲשׁוּעִים Jeremiah 31:20 of Ephraim (|| בֵּן יַקִּיר).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

4:23; 4:23; 21:8; 21:8; 21:14; 21:15; 21:16; 21:16; 30:26; 30:26; 32:23; 33:1; 33:1; 33:2; 33:2; 33:5; 33:6; 33:7; 33:13; 37:14; 37:30; 42:32; 44:20

Exodus

1:16; 1:17; 1:18; 2:3; 2:6; 2:6; 2:7; 2:8; 2:9; 2:10; 21:4; 21:5; 21:24

Ruth

1:5; 4:16

1 Samuel

1:2

2 Samuel

6:23; 12:15; 12:18; 12:19; 12:21; 12:22

1 Kings

3:20; 3:25; 12:8; 12:10; 12:14; 14:12; 17:21; 17:22; 17:23

2 Kings

2:23; 2:24; 4:1; 4:1; 4:5; 4:18; 4:26; 4:34; 4:34

2 Chronicles

10:8; 10:10; 10:14

Ezra

10:1

Nehemiah

12:43

Job

21:11; 21:11; 38:41; 39:3

Ecclesiastes

4:13; 4:15

Isaiah

2:6; 8:18; 9:5; 11:7; 29:23; 57:4; 57:4; 57:5

Jeremiah

31:20; 31:20

Lamentations

4:10

Daniel

1:4; 1:10; 1:13; 1:15; 1:17

Hosea

1:2

Joel

3:3

Zechariah

8:5

H3206

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H3206 matches the Hebrew יֶלֶד (yeleḏ),
which occurs 90 times in 76 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 4:23–2Ch 10:8)

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 4:23 - Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, listen to me; wives of Lamech, hear my words. I have killed a man for wounding me, a young man for injuring me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:8 - The child grew and was weaned, and on the day Isaac was weaned Abraham held a great feast.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 21:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:14 - Early the next morning Abraham took some food and a skin of water and gave them to Hagar. He set them on her shoulders and then sent her off with the boy. She went on her way and wandered in the Desert of Beersheba.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:15 - When the water in the skin was gone, she put the boy under one of the bushes.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:16 - Then she went off and sat down about a bowshot away, for she thought, “I cannot watch the boy die.” And as she sat there, she[fn] began to sob.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 30:26 - Give me my wives and children, for whom I have served you, and I will be on my way. You know how much work I’ve done for you.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 32:22 - That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:1 - Jacob looked up and there was Esau, coming with his four hundred men; so he divided the children among Leah, Rachel and the two female servants.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:2 - He put the female servants and their children in front, Leah and her children next, and Rachel and Joseph in the rear.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:5 - Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:6 - Then the female servants and their children approached and bowed down.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:7

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:7 - Next, Leah and her children came and bowed down. Last of all came Joseph and Rachel, and they too bowed down.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:13 - But Jacob said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender and that I must care for the ewes and cows that are nursing their young. If they are driven hard just one day, all the animals will die.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 33:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 33:14 - So let my lord go on ahead of his servant, while I move along slowly at the pace of the flocks and herds before me and the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 37:30 - He went back to his brothers and said, “The boy isn’t there! Where can I turn now?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 42:22 - Reuben replied, “Didn’t I tell you not to sin against the boy? But you wouldn’t listen! Now we must give an accounting for his blood.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 44:20 - And we answered, ‘We have an aged father, and there is a young son born to him in his old age. His brother is dead, and he is the only one of his mother’s sons left, and his father loves him.’

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:17 - The midwives, however, feared God and did not do what the king of Egypt had told them to do; they let the boys live.

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 1:18

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 1:18 - Then the king of Egypt summoned the midwives and asked them, “Why have you done this? Why have you let the boys live?”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:3 - But when she could hide him no longer, she got a papyrus basket[fn] for him and coated it with tar and pitch. Then she placed the child in it and put it among the reeds along the bank of the Nile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:6 - She opened it and saw the baby. He was crying, and she felt sorry for him. “This is one of the Hebrew babies,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:7 - Then his sister asked Pharaoh’s daughter, “Shall I go and get one of the Hebrew women to nurse the baby for you?”

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Unchecked Copy Box Exo 2:8

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:8 - “Yes, go,” she answered. So the girl went and got the baby’s mother.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:9 - Pharaoh’s daughter said to her, “Take this baby and nurse him for me, and I will pay you.” So the woman took the baby and nursed him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 2:10 - When the child grew older, she took him to Pharaoh’s daughter and he became her son. She named him Moses,[fn] saying, “I drew him out of the water.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:4 - If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the woman and her children shall belong to her master, and only the man shall go free.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 21:22 - “If people are fighting and hit a pregnant woman and she gives birth prematurely[fn] but there is no serious injury, the offender must be fined whatever the woman’s husband demands and the court allows.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 1:5 - both Mahlon and Kilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and her husband.

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Unchecked Copy BoxRth 4:16 - Then Naomi took the child in her arms and cared for him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 1:2 - He had two wives; one was called Hannah and the other Peninnah. Peninnah had children, but Hannah had none.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 6:23 - And Michal daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:15

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:15 - After Nathan had gone home, the LORD struck the child that Uriah’s wife had borne to David, and he became ill.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Sa 12:18

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:18 - On the seventh day the child died. David’s attendants were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they thought, “While the child was still living, he wouldn’t listen to us when we spoke to him. How can we now tell him the child is dead? He may do something desperate.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:19 - David noticed that his attendants were whispering among themselves, and he realized the child was dead. “Is the child dead?” he asked. “Yes,” they replied, “he is dead.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:21 - His attendants asked him, “Why are you acting this way? While the child was alive, you fasted and wept, but now that the child is dead, you get up and eat!”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:22 - He answered, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept. I thought, ‘Who knows? The LORD may be gracious to me and let the child live.’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 3:25

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 3:25 - He then gave an order: “Cut the living child in two and give half to one and half to the other.”

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Ki 12:8

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:8 - But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:10 - The young men who had grown up with him replied, “These people have said to you, ‘Your father put a heavy yoke on us, but make our yoke lighter.’ Now tell them, ‘My little finger is thicker than my father’s waist.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:14 - he followed the advice of the young men and said, “My father made your yoke heavy; I will make it even heavier. My father scourged you with whips; I will scourge you with scorpions.”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:12 - “As for you, go back home. When you set foot in your city, the boy will die.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:21 - Then he stretched himself out on the boy three times and cried out to the LORD, “LORD my God, let this boy’s life return to him!”

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:22 - The LORD heard Elijah’s cry, and the boy’s life returned to him, and he lived.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 17:23 - Elijah picked up the child and carried him down from the room into the house. He gave him to his mother and said, “Look, your son is alive!”

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 2:24

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:24 - He turned around, looked at them and called down a curse on them in the name of the LORD. Then two bears came out of the woods and mauled forty-two of the boys.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:1 - The wife of a man from the company of the prophets cried out to Elisha, “Your servant my husband is dead, and you know that he revered the LORD. But now his creditor is coming to take my two boys as his slaves.”

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:18 - The child grew, and one day he went out to his father, who was with the reapers.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:26 - Run to meet her and ask her, ‘Are you all right? Is your husband all right? Is your child all right?’ ” “Everything is all right,” she said.

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Unchecked Copy Box 2Ki 4:34

Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 4:34 - Then he got on the bed and lay on the boy, mouth to mouth, eyes to eyes, hands to hands. As he stretched himself out on him, the boy’s body grew warm.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ch 10:8 - But Rehoboam rejected the advice the elders gave him and consulted the young men who had grown up with him and were serving him.

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