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# יָהַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3054

**become a Jew** — 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

become a Jew [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3054/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יהד²: vb.denom. become Jew [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3054/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. become a Jew—only pt. מִתְיַהֲדִים Est 8:17 many of the people of the land were becoming Jews.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (14 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (10 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: \[were\] becoming Jews (1).

## In the verses

[Esther 8:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EST.8.17/#tree)

וּבְכָל־מְדִינָ֨ה וּמְדִינָ֜ה וּבְכָל־עִ֣יר וָעִ֗יר מְקוֹם֙ אֲשֶׁ֨ר דְּבַר־הַמֶּ֤לֶךְ וְדָתוֹ֙ מַגִּ֔יעַ שִׂמְחָ֤ה וְשָׂשׂוֹן֙ לַיְּהוּדִ֔ים מִשְׁתֶּ֖ה וְי֣וֹם ט֑וֹב וְרַבִּ֞ים מֵֽעַמֵּ֤י הָאָ֙רֶץ֙ מִֽתְיַהֲדִ֔ים כִּֽי־נָפַ֥ל פַּֽחַד־הַיְּהוּדִ֖ים עֲלֵיהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* and in every province and province and in every city and city the.place (of).where the.word of the.king and law his \[was\].reaching gladness and joy \[belonged\].to the Jews a.feast and a.day good and many of the.peoples of the.land \[were\].becoming.Jews (dm) it.had.fallen dread of the.Jews on them

*JPS 1917:* And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king's commandment and his decree came, the Jews had gladness and joy, a feast and a good day. And many from among the peoples of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews was fallen upon them.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3054.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3054/): 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).