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# יָדִיד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3039

**beloved** — used 8 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

beloved [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3039/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָדִיד: adj. beloved [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3039/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. (poet.) beloved (NH id., Aramaic ܝܰܕܺܝܕܳܐ )—cstr. יְדִיד Dt 33:12; sf. לִידִידִי Is 5:1(×2) Je 11:15; לִידִידוֹ ψ 127:2; pl. sf. יְדִידֶיךָ 60:7; 108:7; f. יְדִידֹת 45:1; יְדִידוֹת 84:2;— my beloved, used by proph. of י׳ under fig. of husbandman Is 5:1(×2); so my (thy, his) beloved Je 11:15 ψ 60:7 = 108:7, 127:2; beloved, of Benj. as beloved by י׳ Dt 33:12. lovely, מַה־יְּדִידוֹת מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶיךָ ψ 84:2 how lovely are thy habitations! fpl. as abstr. subst. שִׁיר יְדִידֹת ψ 45:1 = a song of love.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 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: my beloved (3); your beloved (2); his beloved (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 84:2](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.2/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.84.2/#tree)

מַה־יְּדִיד֥וֹת מִשְׁכְּנוֹתֶ֗יךָ יְהוָ֥ה צְבָאֽוֹת׃

*Word for word:* how! lovely dwelling.place(s) \[are\].your O.Yahweh of.hosts

*JPS 1917:* How lovely are Thy tabernacles, O LORD of hosts!

[Psalms 60:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.60.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.60.7/#tree)

לְ֭מַעַן יֵחָלְצ֣וּן יְדִידֶ֑יךָ הוֹשִׁ֖יעָה יְמִֽינְךָ֣ וַעֲנֵֽנִי׃

*Word for word:* so.that they may.be.rescued your.beloved \[ones\] save hand your.right and answer me

*JPS 1917:* That Thy beloved may be delivered, save with Thy right hand, and answer me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3039.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3039/): 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).