יַלְדוּת
yaldûwth · H3208 · Hebrew · 3 occurrences
Meanings
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youth
State in which humans are still relatively young
ExamplesPsalm 110:3 Your people will volunteer freely on the day of Your power; In holy splendor, from the womb of the dawn, Your youth are to You as the dew.
Ecclesiastes 11:9 Rejoice, young man, during your childhood, and let your heart be pleasant during the days of young manhood. And follow the impulses of your heart and the desires of your eyes. Yet know that God will bring you to judgment for all these things.
Ecclesiastes 11:10 So remove sorrow from your heart and keep pain away from your body, because childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.
How it’s used In 4 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
2 occurrences in 1 groups
- ךָyour 2
What it is said to bePredicate
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הֶבֶלvanity, breath 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בin/on/with 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- טַלdew 1
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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Near synonyms 4 words
- בְּחֻרוֹת bᵉchurôwth · H979 · youth
- Both lexemes denote periods/states of youth/young age.
- עָלוּם ʻâlûwm · H5934 · youth
- Both יַלְדוּת (childhood, youth) and עָלוּם (youth) denote the same life stage and could plausibly substitute for each other in describing early life.
- צְעִירָה tsᵉʻîyrâh · H6812 · little, youth, youthfulness
- Both lexemes denote a life stage of youth or childhood, describing overlapping temporal and developmental concepts.
- שַׁחֲרוּת shachărûwth · H7839 · black hair, youth
- Both words denote life stages of youth or childhood, and are two distinct Hebrew words for the same concept.
In the other Testament 1 word
- νεότης neótēs · G3503 · youth, being young
- Greek νεότης denotes the abstract quality or state of youthfulness, corresponding directly to Hebrew יַלְדוּת in referencing the life-stage of youth or childhood.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Young002001001073
- יַלְדוּת denotes childhood or youth as a life stage, as in Ecclesiastes' observation that 'childhood and the prime of life are fleeting' (Ecclesiastes 11:10).
Word family 9 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3208. yalduth יַלְדוּת noun feminine childhood, youth; — absolute יַלְדוּת Ecc 11:10 (||…
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
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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