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# יָדַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3032

**cast** — used 3 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

cast [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3032/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָדַד: vb. cast Pi. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3032/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cast a lot (cf. Ethiopic ወደደ immittere, etc. Di 935)—only Pf. 3 mpl. יַדּוּ גוֹרָל עַל Na 3:10; Ob 11; יַדּוּ גוֹרָל אֶל־ Jo 4:3. (Poss. wrongly pointed pfs. of ידה Pi. q.v.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: they cast (2); they have cast (1).

## In the verses

[Joel 4:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.3/#tree)

וְאֶל־עַמִּ֖י יַדּ֣וּ גוֹרָ֑ל וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ הַיֶּ֙לֶד֙ בַּזּוֹנָ֔ה וְהַיַּלְדָּ֛ה מָכְר֥וּ בַיַּ֖יִן וַיִּשְׁתּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and to people my they.have.cast a.lot and they.have.exchanged the boy for the prostitute and the girl they.have.sold for (the) wine and they.have.drunk

*JPS 1917:* And they have cast lots for My people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk.

[Obadiah 1:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.11/#tree)

בְּיוֹם֙ עֲמָֽדְךָ֣ מִנֶּ֔גֶד בְּי֛וֹם שְׁב֥וֹת זָרִ֖ים חֵיל֑וֹ וְנָכְרִ֞ים בָּ֣אוּ שְׁעָרָ֗יו וְעַל־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ יַדּ֣וּ גוֹרָ֔ל גַּם־אַתָּ֖ה כְּאַחַ֥ד מֵהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* on the.day stood you from before on the.day took.captive strangers wealth his and foreigners they.came gates his and on Jerusalem they.cast a.lot also you \[were\].like one of them

*JPS 1917:* In the day that thou didst stand aloof, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3032.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3032/): 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).