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# יַחַד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3162

**unitedness** — used 45 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

unitedness [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3162/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַ֫חַד: unitedness subst. adv. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3162/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] unitedness. as subst. only 1 Ch 12:17 (peculiar) יִהְיֶה־לִּי עֲלֵיכֶם לֵבָב לֳי֑חַד I will have a heart toward you for unitedness, i.e. my heart shall be ready to become one with yours (cf. v 38 לב אחד). elsewhere always in acc. as adv. in union, together (cf. Arabic وَحْدٌ in acc. with sf. in his solitariness = alone)— together, of community in action, place, or time (often combined, but one usually more prominent than the others); (1) in action, Jb 38:7 בְּרָן־יַחַד כּוֹכְבֵי בֹקֶר when the stars of God shouted together; Ezr 4:3 we together will build (opp. to you), with נִלְחַם 1 S 17:10, נִשְׁפַּט Is 43:26; (2) in place 1 S 11:11 ולא נשׁארו בם שׁנים יָ֑חַד; 2 S 10:15 וַיֵּאָֽסְפוּ יָ֑חַד ψ 2:2; 31:14; 88:18, 133:1 שֶׁבֶת יַחַד, Is 50:8, as pred. Mi 2:12 יַחַד אֲשִׂימֶנּוּ; (3) in place and time at once, 2 S 21:9 וַיִּפְּלוּ יָ֑חַד and they perished together, 14:16 to destroy אתי ואת בני יחד; (4) of time alone (poet.) Is 42:14 אֶשֹּׁם וְאֶשְׁאַף יחד I will gasp and pant together, 45:8 Jb 6:2; 10:8; 17:16 read נֵחָ֑ת for נָ֑חַת (v. pp. 94b, 629a); יַחַד here will then belong to (1); ψ 141:10 יחד אנכי עד אעבור while I at the same time pass on. all together, altogether (poet. syn. of כֻּלָּם, but more forcible, suggesting often, especially with כל, all at once, as well as altogether), Is 44:11 יפחדו יבשׁו יחד (cf. ψ 40:15), ψ 62:10 הֵמָּה מֵהֶבֶל יַחַד they are all together (made) of vanity, Is 22:3 כל קציניך נדדו יחד (with כל also ψ 41:8 Jb 34:15): often in poet. beginning a clause with emph., Dt 33:5 Jb 3:18 יחד אסירים שׁאננו, 16:10; 19:12 יחד יבאו גדודיו, 24:4; 31:38 ψ 41:8; 98:8 Ho 11:7 (with a neg.), v 8; in connexion with a sf., or obj. of a vb., Is 27:4 אציתנה יָ֑חַד I will burn it altogether, ψ 33:15 הַיֹּצֵר יַחַד לִבָּם who formeth the hearts of them all together, 74:6, 8 Jb 10:8 יַחַד סָבִיב altogether round about (but read perhaps with 𝔊 𝔖 Del Di אַחַר תִּסּוֹב), 40:13. together, in the sense of alike, the one as well as the other, ψ 49:3, 11 יחד כסיל ובער יאבדו, Jb 21:26; 34:29. More frequent is

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 44 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (11 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech not compared, 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: together (35); altogether (6); alike (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 98:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.98.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.98.8/#tree)

נְהָר֥וֹת יִמְחֲאוּ־כָ֑ף יַ֝֗חַד הָרִ֥ים יְרַנֵּֽנוּ׃

*Word for word:* rivers let.them.clap a.palm together mountains let.them.sing.for.joy

*JPS 1917:* Let the floods clap their hands; let the mountains sing for joy together;

[Job 3:18](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.18/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.3.18/#tree)

יַ֭חַד אֲסִירִ֣ים שַׁאֲנָ֑נוּ לֹ֥א שָׁ֝מְע֗וּ ק֣וֹל נֹגֵֽשׂ׃

*Word for word:* together prisoners they.are.at.ease not they.hear \[the\].voice of.a.taskmaster

*JPS 1917:* There the prisoners are at ease together; they hear not the voice of the taskmaster.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3162.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3162/): 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).