יָלַד

Strong’s Definition

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

Etymology & Derivation

a primitive root;

KJV Usage

bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).

Detailed Definition

From the Brown–Driver–Briggs (BDB) Hebrew lexicon outline.

• 1.to bear, bring forth, beget, gender, travail
• 2.(qal)
• 3.(niphal) to be born
• 4.(piel)
• 5.(pual) to be born
• 6.(hiphil)
• 7.(hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive)
• 8.(hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)

Scholarly Notes

Transliteration: yâlad; Pronunciation: yaw-lad'