Strong's Lexicon

H3032

H3032 — יָדַד

Hebrew / Aramaic entry for Bible study and original-language reference.

HebrewyadadverbOccurrences: 3TWOT: 845

Definition / Gloss

Strong's Number:H3032
Word:יָדַד
Part of Speech:verb
Etymology:a primitive root
Language:Hebrew
Occurrences:3
Transliteration:yadad
Phonetic Spelling/Pronunciation:yaw-dad'
Meaning:1. (properly) to handle, i.e. to throw, e.g. lots
KJV Renderings:cast.

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Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced

BDB3439

I. [יָדַד] verb cast a lot (compare Ethiopic [untranscribed source text 2176] immittere, etc, Di935) — only

Qal Perfect 3 masculine plural יַדוּ גוֺרָל עַל Nah 3:10; Obad 1:11 יַדוּ גוֺרָל אֶלֿ Josh 4:3. (Possibly wrongly pointed perfects of ידה Pi`el q. v.)


Other Resources

Theological Wordbook of the Old Testament
R. Laird Harris, Gleason L. Archer, and Bruce K. Waltke

Englishman's Hebrew Concordance

ידד (yah-dad’)

Joel 8:8

EHCC: (4:38). they have cast lots for my people,

Nahum 3:10

KJV: Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.
EHCC: they cast lots for her honourable men,
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