ya.lad H3205

יָלַד (ya.lad) means “to beget” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.

יָלַד Hebrew · H3205 496 tagged occurrences in 403 verses

Pronunciation guide: yaw-lad' Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.

Lexicon entries

TBESH · H3205

יָלַד · ya.lad · to beget

1) to bear, bringforth, beget, gender, travail 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to bear, bring forth 1a1a) of child birth 1a1b) of distress (simile) 1a1c) of wicked (behaviour) 1a2) to beget 1b) (Niphal) to be born 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to cause or help to bring forth 1c2) to assist or tend as a midwife 1c3) midwife (participle) 1d) (Pual) to be born 1e) (Hiphil) 1e1) to beget (a child) 1e2) to bear (fig. -of wicked bringing forth iniquity) 1f) (Hophal) day of birth, birthday (infinitive) 1g) (Hithpael) to declare one's birth (pedigree)

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Strong’s Hebrew dictionary

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

KJV glosses: 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).

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How translators render H3205

Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.

BSB rendering counts
Rendering	Count
was the father of	102
bore	20
were born	19
and gave birth to	17
he had become the father of	17
he became the father of	16
born	11
gave birth to	10
and had other	9
and had	8
and she bore	8
like a woman in labor	8
and bore	7
had borne	7
and give birth to	5
became the father of	5
is born	5
was born	5
and she gave birth to	3
give birth	3
she bore	3
the midwives	3
was the mother	3
and give birth	2
and they bore	2
baby	2
bear	2
children	2
descendants	2
gave birth	2
gives birth to	2
has begotten	2
having children	2
i have borne	2
labor	2
like that of a woman in labor	2
she bears	2
she gave birth	2
she gave birth to	2
they have borne	2
to deliver them	2
to give birth	2
was descended	2
who bore him	2
who was the father of	2
will be born	2
a man fathers	1
a midwife	1
after i gave birth	1
and about to give birth	1
and became the father	1
and births	1
and brought you forth	1
and gave birth	1
and gives birth to	1
and have	1
and he had	1
and he was the father	1
and he who fathers	1
and her father	1
and her labor	1
and i gave birth	1
and may she who gave you birth	1
and recorded their ancestry	1
and she bears	1
and sons were also born	1
and their children	1
and who was the father	1
and will bear	1
and women in labor	1
are born	1
as she was giving birth	1
be delivered	1
bear a child	1
bear children	1
bearing	1
became the father	1
began to give birth	1
bore him	1
bore me	1
borne	1
can a child be born	1
can be born	1
can one born	1
deliver it	1
ever born	1
father	1
for a woman giving birth	1
for tamar to give birth	1
from bearing children	1
gave me birth	1
gave you birth	1
gave you life	1
give them birth	1
had	1
had a baby	1
had been born	1
had children	1
had given birth to	1
had sons	1
has been born	1
has borne	1
has given birth	1
has given him birth	1
have	1
have become your father	1
have you begotten	1
he also had sons	1
he had	1
he had a son	1
he was born	1
he will become the father	1
her newborn fawn	1
i bore him	1
i had borne	1
i have borne him	1
i was born	1
in labor	1
lay	1
leah gave birth to	1
making it bud	1
may bring	1
may father	1
midwives	1
now suppose that man has	1
of a woman in labor	1
of birth	1
of her birth	1
of my birth	1
of the children born	1
of you were born	1
of your birth	1
one was born	1
or given birth	1
or one born	1
own flesh and blood	1
produced	1
she gives birth to	1
she was also the mother	1
she who bore you	1
she who is in labor	1
so she gave birth to	1
so that they could again bear children	1
so that they too may have	1
so the midwife	1
so when that man has	1
sons were born	1
suppose this son has	1
takes effect	1
that she gave birth to him	1
that she may bear children	1
the father of	1
the midwife	1
the midwives however	1
the mother	1
then she gave birth to	1
they bear children	1
they bore	1
they give birth	1
to be born	1
to bear	1
to her who bore him	1
to the midwives	1
was	1
we gave birth to	1
were brought up	1
when the twins were born	1
who bears no children	1
who bore	1
who bore her	1
who brought you forth	1
who deliver	1
who fathered	1
who gave birth to	1
who is born	1
who is to be born	1
whom she bore	1
will bear	1
with no birth	1
women give birth	1
yet to be born	1
yet unborn	1
you bore	1
you give birth to	1
you have	1
you have borne me	1
you have given birth to	1
you will bring forth	1
you will father	1

KJV rendering counts
Rendering	Count
begat	116
bare	39
and begat	35
and bare	20
he begat	17
and she bare	14
born	11
were born	9
was born	8
which were born	6
again and bare	5
and bear	4
and he begat	4
as of a woman in travail	4
is born	4
she bare	4
be born	3
she also bare	3
that begat	3
which bare	3
which she bare	3
and bring forth	2
and brought forth	2
and they bare	2
bear	2
bearing	2
bring forth	2
child	2
children	2
from thee which thou shalt beget	2
hath born	2
have i begotten	2
labour	2
shall be born	2
shall bear	2
she brought forth	2
that bare	2
that shall be born	2
that she bare	2
to be delivered	2
to bring forth	2
when she bare	2
wherein i was born	2
whom she bare	2
after that i was delivered	1
also begat	1
also calved	1
also there was born	1
and are delivered	1
and bearest	1
and beget	1
and born	1
and hatcheth	1
and he also was born	1
and he also was the son	1
and he begetteth	1
and he that begetteth	1
and her that travaileth with child	1
and i was delivered of a child	1
and it came to pass because the midwives	1
and it came to pass when she travailed	1
and maketh it bring forth	1
and not cause to bring forth	1
and shalt bear	1
and she have born	1
and she that bare	1
and should also bear	1
and such as are born	1
and the midwife	1
and the midwives	1
and there were born	1
and these she bare	1
and these were born	1
and they declared their pedigrees	1
and they have born	1
and they were mine and they bare	1
as a woman in travail	1
as a woman that travaileth	1
beareth	1
because i bare	1
because thou wast then born	1
beget	1
birthday	1
bring forth their young	1
brought forth	1
but if she bear	1
but the midwives	1
cause to bring forth	1
did bear	1
didst not bear	1
doth travail with child	1
for her that hath born	1
for i have born	1
for the midwives	1
for they have begotten	1
from bearing	1
from the birth	1
had born	1
hath brought forth	1
he beget	1
he had begotten	1
he that begetteth	1
her and he that begat	1
her as a woman in travail	1
herself and travailed	1
if he beget	1
in travail	1
is brought forth	1
like a travailing woman	1
like a woman in travail	1
may bring forth	1
midwives	1
nor bring forth	1
not for thou hast born	1
not nor bring forth children	1
of a travailing woman	1
of a woman that travaileth	1
of her that bare	1
of her travail	1
of ones birth	1
or who hath begotten	1
shall he beget	1
she hath also born	1
she hath brought forth	1
she that bare	1
she that hath borne	1
she which travaileth	1
should be born	1
that are begotten	1
that are born	1
that come	1
that she was born	1
that the midwife	1
that they may bear	1
that thou hast borne	1
that thou wast born	1
that was born	1
that were born	1
the midwives	1
the time of her delivery	1
thee as a woman in travail	1
them and begat	1
then bare	1
there were born	1
these were born	1
thou hast brought me forth	1
thou shalt beget	1
thou shalt bring forth	1
thou wast born	1
to be born	1
to her that bare	1
travailed	1
unto her and she shall bear	1
unto me because i have born	1
was delivered	1
were brought forth	1
were brought up	1
what begettest	1
when they bring forth	1
when thou shalt beget	1
when ye do the office of a midwife	1
where ye were not born	1
which i did bear	1
which she beareth	1
which she had born	1
which she shall bear	1
which they have born	1
which thou begettest	1
who hath begotten	1
who hath gendered	1
who was born	1
whom she brought up	1
whom they bare	1
whom thou hast borne	1
with her and she bare	1
with me because i have born	1
with the midwives	1
with you which they begat	1
ye shall bring forth	1
yea though they bring forth	1
you which shall beget	1

Verses containing H3205

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Leviticus 25:45 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You may also purchase them from the foreigners residing among you or their clans living among you who are born in your land. These may become your property.
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Numbers 1:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and on the first day of the second month they assembled the whole congregation and recorded their ancestry by clans and families, counting one by one the names of those twenty years of age or older,
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Numbers 11:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Did I conceive all these people? Did I give them birth, so that You should tell me, ‘Carry them in your bosom, as a nurse carries an infant,’ to the land that You swore to give their fathers?
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Numbers 26:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These were the descendants of Manasseh: The Machirite clan from Machir, the father of Gilead, and the Gileadite clan from Gilead.
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Numbers 26:58 · BSB · 1 occurrence
These were the families of the Levites: The Libnite clan, the Hebronite clan, the Mahlite clan, the Mushite clan, and the Korahite clan. Now Kohath was the father of Amram,
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Numbers 26:59 · BSB · 2 occurrences
and Amram’s wife was named Jochebed. She was also a daughter of Levi, born to Levi in Egypt. To Amram she bore Aaron, Moses, and their sister Miriam.
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Numbers 26:60 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Nadab, Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar were born to Aaron,
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Deuteronomy 4:25 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After you have children and grandchildren and you have been in the land a long time, if you then act corruptly and make an idol of any form—doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God and provoking Him to anger—
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Deuteronomy 15:19 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You must set apart to the LORD your God every firstborn male produced by your herds and flocks. You are not to put the firstborn of your oxen to work, nor are you to shear the firstborn of your flock.
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Deuteronomy 21:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
If a man has two wives, one beloved and the other unloved, and both bear him sons, but the unloved wife has the firstborn son,
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Deuteronomy 23:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The third generation of children born to them may enter the assembly of the LORD.
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Source alternate reference: 23.9
Deuteronomy 25:6 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The first son she bears will carry on the name of the dead brother, so that his name will not be blotted out from Israel.
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Deuteronomy 28:41 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You will father sons and daughters, but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
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Deuteronomy 28:57 · BSB · 1 occurrence
the afterbirth that comes from between her legs and the children she bears, because she will secretly eat them for lack of anything else in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict on you within your gates.
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Deuteronomy 32:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
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Judges 8:31 · BSB · 1 occurrence
His concubine, who dwelt in Shechem, also bore him a son, and he named him Abimelech.
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Judges 11:1 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty man of valor; he was the son of a prostitute, and Gilead was his father.
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Judges 11:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And Gilead’s wife bore him sons who grew up, drove Jephthah out, and said to him, “You shall have no inheritance in our father’s house, because you are the son of another woman.”
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Judges 13:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.
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Judges 13:3 · BSB · 2 occurrences
The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.
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Judges 13:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
For behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. And no razor shall touch his head, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb, and he will begin the deliverance of Israel from the hand of the Philistines.”
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Judges 13:7 · BSB · 1 occurrence
But he said to me, ‘Behold, you will conceive and give birth to a son. Now, therefore, do not drink wine or strong drink, and do not eat anything unclean, because the boy will be a Nazirite to God from the womb until the day of his death.’”
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Judges 13:8 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”
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Judges 13:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the woman gave birth to a son and named him Samson. The boy grew, and the LORD blessed him.
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Judges 18:29 · BSB · 1 occurrence
They named it Dan, after their forefather Dan, who was born to Israel—though the city was formerly named Laish.
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Ruth 1:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,
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Ruth 4:12 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And may your house become like the house of Perez, whom Tamar bore to Judah, because of the offspring the LORD will give you by this young woman.”
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Ruth 4:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So Boaz took Ruth, and she became his wife. And when he had relations with her, the LORD enabled her to conceive, and she gave birth to a son.
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Ruth 4:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
He will renew your life and sustain you in your old age. For your daughter-in-law, who loves you and is better to you than seven sons, has given him birth.”
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Ruth 4:17 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The neighbor women said, “A son has been born to Naomi,” and they named him Obed. He became the father of Jesse, the father of David.
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Ruth 4:18 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Now these are the generations of Perez: Perez was the father of Hezron,
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Ruth 4:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Hezron was the father of Ram, Ram was the father of Amminadab,
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Ruth 4:20 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Amminadab was the father of Nahshon, Nahshon was the father of Salmon,
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Ruth 4:21 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Salmon was the father of Boaz, Boaz was the father of Obed,
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Ruth 4:22 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Obed was the father of Jesse, and Jesse was the father of David.
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1 Samuel 1:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So in the course of time, Hannah conceived and gave birth to a son. She named him Samuel, saying, “Because I have asked for him from the LORD.”
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1 Samuel 2:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
The well-fed hire themselves out for food, but the starving hunger no more. The barren woman gives birth to seven, but she who has many sons pines away.
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1 Samuel 2:21 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.
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1 Samuel 4:19 · BSB · 2 occurrences
Now Eli’s daughter-in-law, the wife of Phinehas, was pregnant and about to give birth. When she heard the news of the capture of God’s ark and the deaths of her father-in-law and her husband, she collapsed and gave birth, for her labor pains overtook her.
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1 Samuel 4:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
As she was dying, the women attending to her said, “Do not be afraid, for you have given birth to a son!” But she did not respond or pay any heed.
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2 Samuel 3:2 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And sons were born to David in Hebron: His firstborn was Amnon, by Ahinoam of Jezreel;
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2 Samuel 3:5 · BSB · 1 occurrence
and his sixth was Ithream, by David’s wife Eglah. These sons were born to David in Hebron.
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2 Samuel 5:13 · BSB · 1 occurrence
After he had arrived from Hebron, David took more concubines and wives from Jerusalem, and more sons and daughters were born to him.
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2 Samuel 11:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And when the time of mourning was over, David had her brought to his house, and she became his wife and bore him a son. But the thing that David had done was evil in the sight of the LORD.
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2 Samuel 12:15 · BSB · 1 occurrence
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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2 Samuel 12:24 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Then David comforted his wife Bathsheba, and he went to her and lay with her. So she gave birth to a son, and they named him Solomon. Now the LORD loved the child
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2 Samuel 14:27 · BSB · 1 occurrence
Three sons were born to Absalom, and a daughter named Tamar, who was a beautiful woman.
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2 Samuel 21:8 · BSB · 2 occurrences
But the king took Armoni and Mephibosheth, the two sons whom Rizpah daughter of Aiah had borne to Saul, as well as the five sons whom Merab daughter of Saul had borne to Adriel son of Barzillai the Meholathite.
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2 Samuel 21:20 · BSB · 1 occurrence
And there was also a battle at Gath, where there was a man of great stature with six fingers on each hand and six toes on each foot—twenty-four in all. He too was descended from Rapha,
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2 Samuel 21:22 · BSB · 1 occurrence
So these four descendants of Rapha in Gath fell at the hands of David and his servants.
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