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# לֵדָה

Biblical Hebrew

**girl** — used 4 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/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d3_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

**The whole BDB entry:** v. ילד, Inf. cstr.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech not compared, 0 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, only a cross-reference (2 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: giving birth (3); of giving birth (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 9:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.9.11/#tree)

אֶפְרַ֕יִם כָּע֖וֹף יִתְעוֹפֵ֣ף כְּבוֹדָ֑ם מִלֵּדָ֥ה וּמִבֶּ֖טֶן וּמֵהֵרָיֽוֹן׃

*Word for word:* Ephraim like (the) bird it.will.fly.away glory their from giving.birth and from womb and from conception

*JPS 1917:* As for Ephraim, their glory shall fly away like a bird; there shall be no birth, and none with child, and no conception.

[Jeremiah 13:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.13.21/#tree)

מַה־תֹּֽאמְרִי֙ כִּֽי־יִפְקֹ֣ד עָלַ֔יִךְ וְ֠אַתְּ לִמַּ֨דְתְּ אֹתָ֥ם עָלַ֛יִךְ אַלֻּפִ֖ים לְרֹ֑אשׁ הֲל֤וֹא חֲבָלִים֙ יֹאחֱז֔וּךְ כְּמ֖וֹ אֵ֥שֶׁת לֵדָֽה׃

*Word for word:* what? will.you.say (dm) he.will.appoint over you and you you.taught them over you close.friends to chief ? not labor-pains will they.seize.you like a.woman of.giving.birth

*JPS 1917:* What wilt thou say, when He shall set the friends over thee as head, whom thou thyself hast trained against thee? Shall not pangs take hold of thee, as of a woman in travail?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d3_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/lemma_3a_5dc_5b5_5d3_5b8_5d4/): 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).