Original Language Studio
Genesis 4:18
“And unto Enoch was born Irad: and Irad begat Mehujael: and Mehujael begat Methusael: and Methusael begat Lamech.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
יָלַדyâlad · yaw-lad'
H3205 · Hebrew
H3205 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יִּוָּלֵ֤ד — verb Niphal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 500 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 3:16Genesis 4:1Genesis 4:2Genesis 4:17
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יָלַד here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.