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יַד

yad · H3028 · Aramaic · 17 occurrences

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Meanings

  1. hand

    The lower part of the upper limb of the human body

    Examples

    Daniel 5:5 Suddenly the fingers of a human hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing.

    Daniel 5:24 “Then the hand was sent from Him and this inscription was written out.

  2. hand, charge, authority, control, power

    Literally: hand; hence: state of being in a position of control and authority over objects, people or activities

    Examples

    Ezra 5:8 “May it be known to the king that we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God which is being built with large stones, and beams are being laid in the walls; and this work is being performed with great care and is succeeding in their hands.

    Daniel 3:15 “Now if you are ready, at the moment you hear the sound of the horn, flute, lyre, trigon, psaltery and bagpipe, and all kinds of musical instruments, to fall down and worship the statue that I have made, very well. But if you do not worship, you will immediately be thrown into the midst of a furnace of blazing fire; and what god is there who can rescue you from my hands?”

    Daniel 3:17 “If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will rescue us from your hand, O king.

  3. expertise

    Literally: (having something in one's) hand; hence: state in which humans are an expert in a certain matter, as if having it totally mastered

    Examples

    Ezra 7:14 “Since you are sent on the part of the king and his seven advisers to inquire about Judah and Jerusalem according to the Law of your God which is in your hand,

  4. Literally: (to be in one's) hands; hence: state in which humans possess a certain quality and have it influence their activities (to have (a certain quality))

    Examples

    Ezra 7:25 “And you, Ezra, according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges so that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the Euphrates River, that is, all those who know the laws of your God; and you may teach anyone who is ignorant of them.

  5. Literally: to stretch out (one's) hand (to do something); hence: action by which humans take a conscious decision to perform a certain event (to stretch out (one's) hand > to lift a hand (to do something))

    Examples

    Ezra 6:12 “May the God who has caused His name to dwell there overthrow any king or people who attempts to change it, so as to destroy that house of God in Jerusalem. I, Darius, have issued this decree; it is to be carried out with all diligence!”

  6. Literally: to strike (someone's) hand; hence: action by which humans or deities cause (other) humans to stop engaging in a certain activity (to stay (one's) hand, to stop)

    Examples

    Daniel 4:35 “All the inhabitants of the earth are of no account, But He does according to His will among the army of heaven And among the inhabitants of earth; And no one can fend off His hand Or say to Him, ‘What have You done?’

  7. Literally: hand, used metonymically to denote the owner of the hand; hence: the person who is the originator of a particular event (hand (as metonym), person)

    Examples

    Daniel 2:34 “You continued watching until a stone was broken off without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.

    Daniel 2:45 “Just as you saw that a stone was broken off from the mountain without hands, and that it crushed the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God has made known to the king what will take place in the future; so the dream is certain and its interpretation is trustworthy.”

How it’s used In 5 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

13 occurrences in 8 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

13 occurrences in 3 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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In the other Testament 2 words
χείρ cheír · G5495 · hand, finger, person
Greek χείρ is the direct translation equivalent of Hebrew יַד, both denoting the physical hand and extending metaphorically to power, agency, or instrumental means; the LXX consistently renders יַד with χείρ across literal and figurative senses.
יָד yâd · H3027 · hand, wrist, forearm
Aramaic cognate of Hebrew יָד (yâd, H3027); both denote 'hand' literally and 'power/control' metaphorically, representing the same lexical root across sister languages.
Semantic domains 5 entries
Control002003002007
Daniel 3:17 has Shadrach, Meshach, and Abed-nego reply to the king, “our God whom we serve is able to rescue us from the furnace of blazing fire; and He will rescue us from your hand, O king.”
Know002004002007
Ezra 7:25 has King Artaxerxes charge Ezra, “according to the wisdom of your God which is in your hand, appoint magistrates and judges so that they may judge all the people who are in the province beyond the Euphrates River.”
Engage002003003011
Daniel 5:5 recounts that “suddenly the fingers of a human hand emerged and began writing opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace, and the king saw the back of the hand that did the writing.”
Non-Engage002003003012
Daniel 2:34 recounts that Nebuchadnezzar “continued watching until a stone was broken off without hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and crushed them.”
Happen002002003003
Ezra 5:8 has the letter to King Darius report, “we have gone to the province of Judah, to the house of the great God which is being built with large stones, and beams are being laid in the walls; and this work is being performed with great care and is succeeding in their hands.”
Word family 3 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יָד yâd · H3027 · hand, wrist, forearm · 1618×יַדyad · H3028יַךְ yak · H3197 · side · 0×
Topical studies with this word 5 entries
Happen2 occurrencesControl8 occurrencesEngage2 occurrencesNon-Engage1 occurrenceKnow1 occurrence

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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