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# יָחְדָּו

Biblical Hebrew

**together** — used 96 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

together [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5d7_5b0_5d3_5b8_5bc_5d5/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַחְדָּו: adv. together [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5d7_5b0_5d3_5b8_5bc_5d5/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** (Je 46:12, 21; 49:3 יַחְדָּיו), adv. together (proposes (in) his or its unitednesses (cf. Arabic وَحْدَهُ alone; and for the form אַשְׁרָיו), but, the orig. of the term. being forgotten, applied gen. as an adv., without regard to number, gender, or person: so Ges Ol§ 135 c Sta§ 370 a)—together: of community in action, ψ 34:4 ונרוממה שׁמו יחדו let us exalt his name together, Is 52:9, with נוֹעַץ take counsel, 45:21 ψ 71:10; 83:6 Ne 6:7; נִצָּה to struggle Dt 25:11; in place, as with ישׁב Gn 13:6 Dt 25:5, הלך Gn 22:6, 8 Am 3:3, בוא Je 3:18 Jb 9:32, קרב Is 41:1, נפל 2 S 2:16, אכל Ju 19:6 Je 41:1, התקבץ Jos 9:2, נאסף Ju 6:33, etc.; Dt 22:10 בשׁור ובחמור יחדו; coupling pairs, and so strengthening וְ (mostly poet.), v 11 Am 1:15 הוא ושׂריו יחדו (cf. Je 48:7 Qr \[Kt יחד\], 49:3) Je 6:11, 12 שׂדות ונשׁים י׳, v 21 (accents), 13:14; 31:8, 13; 50:4, 33 Is 41:19, cf. 65:7; in time (rare: but v. infr.), ψ 4:9 in peace יחדו אשׁכבה ואישׁן will I at once lie down and sleep (i.e. lie down and fall asleep immediately). emph. (especially poet.) = all together 1 S 31:6, Is 10:8 הלא שׂרי יחדו מלכים are not my princes all together, all alike, kings? 18:6; 40:5; 41:20, 23; 45:16 (‖ כֻּלָּם), 46:2 קרסו כרעו יחדו, 48:13; 66:17 ψ 14:3 (‖ הַכֹּל), 19:10 צדקו יחדו (of J.’s ordinances), 35:26; 37:38; sometimes (like יַחַד b) suggesting all at once, as well as all together, Ex 19:8 ויענו כל העם יחדו (so, with כל, Is 22:3; 31:3 Zc 10:4), Is 1:28, 31 ובערו שׁניהם יחדו. Prefixed to a clause (like יחד), Dt 33:17 (cf. יחד v 5), Is 9:20; 11:7, 14; 31:3; 43:17; 45:16; 52:8 Je 46:12; 51:38 La 2:8 Jb 24:17 (strengthening לָמוֹ). alike, the one as well as the other, Dt 12:22 (= 15:22) the unclean and the clean alike may eat it, 1 S 30:24 יַחְדָּו יַחֲלֹֽקוּ׃ they shall share together, i.e. alike.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech not compared, 70 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (8 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: together (74); alike (12); all together (5).

## In the verses

[Deuteronomy 22:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.22.11/#tree)

לֹ֤א תִלְבַּשׁ֙ שַֽׁעַטְנֵ֔ז צֶ֥מֶר וּפִשְׁתִּ֖ים יַחְדָּֽו׃ס

*Word for word:* not you.will.wear mixed.stuff wool and linen(s) together

*JPS 1917:* Thou shalt not wear a mingled stuff, wool and linen together.

[Psalms 37:38](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.38/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.37.38/#tree)

וּֽ֭פֹשְׁעִים נִשְׁמְד֣וּ יַחְדָּ֑ו אַחֲרִ֖ית רְשָׁעִ֣ים נִכְרָֽתָה׃

*Word for word:* and transgressors they.will.be.destroyed altogether \[the\].future of.wicked.\[people\] it.will.be.cut.off

*JPS 1917:* But transgressors shall be destroyed together; the future of the wicked shall be cut off.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5d7_5b0_5d3_5b8_5bc_5d5.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/lemma_3a_5d9_5b8_5d7_5b0_5d3_5b8_5bc_5d5/): 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).