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# וָלָד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H2056

**offspring** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

offspring [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1493/2056/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

וָלָד²: n.m. offspring, child [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1493/2056/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. offspring, child, only אֵין לָהּ וָלָ֑ד Gn 11:30 (J); si vera l. = Arabic وَلَدٌ; Ethiopic ወልድ (with orig. ו);—in 2 S 6:23, where some edd. have ולד Kt, יָ֑לֶד Qr, Bear and van d. H. give יָ֑לֶד Kt.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a child (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 11:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.30/#tree)

וַתְּהִ֥י שָׂרַ֖י עֲקָרָ֑ה אֵ֥ין לָ֖הּ וָלָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and she.was Sarai barren there.\[belonged\].not to her a.child

*JPS 1917:* And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/2056.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1493/2056/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).