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# יַלְדָּה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3207

**girl** — 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

girl [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3207/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַלְדָּה: n.f. girl damsel [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3207/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. girl damsel;—abs. יַלְדָּה Gn 34:4 Jo 4:3; וִילָדוֹת Zc 8:5;—marriageable girl: of Dinah, daughter of Jacob Gn 34:4; opp. יֶלֶד Zc 8:5 Jo 4:3.

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 (3 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

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

## In the verses

[Zechariah 8:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ZEC.8.5/#tree)

וּרְחֹב֤וֹת הָעִיר֙ יִמָּ֣לְא֔וּ יְלָדִ֖ים וִֽילָד֑וֹת מְשַׂחֲקִ֖ים בִּרְחֹֽבֹתֶֽיהָ׃ס

*Word for word:* and the.open.places of the.city they.will.be.filled boys and girls playing in its.open places

*JPS 1917:* And the broad places of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in the broad places thereof.

[Genesis 34:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.34.4/#tree)

וַיֹּ֣אמֶר שְׁכֶ֔ם אֶל־חֲמ֥וֹר אָבִ֖יו לֵאמֹ֑ר קַֽח־לִ֛י אֶת־הַיַּלְדָּ֥ה הַזֹּ֖את לְאִשָּֽׁה׃

*Word for word:* and he.said Shechem to Hamor father his (cmp) get for me (et) the girl (the) this to a.wife

*JPS 1917:* And Shechem spoke unto his father Hamor, saying: 'Get me this damsel to wife.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3207.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3207/): 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).