STRONGS NUMBER H3206


Word Summary
yeled: child, son, boy, youth
Original Word: יֶלֶד
Transliteration: yeled
Phonetic Spelling: (yeh'-led)
Part of Speech: Noun Masculine
Short Definition: child, son, boy, youth
Meaning: something born, a lad, offspring
Strong's Concordance
boy, child, fruit, son, young man one

From yalad; something born, i.e. A lad or offspring -- boy, child, fruit, son, young man (one).

see HEBREW yalad

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H3206. yeled

יֶ֫לֶד89 noun masculineGenesis 21:8 child, son, boy, youth; — יֶּ֫לֶד‎ absolute 4:23 +; construct Jeremiah 31:20; יָ֫לֶדGenesis 21:16 +; plural יְלָדִים33:1 +; construct יַלְדֵיExodus 2:6 2t.; יִלְדֵיֿIsaiah 57:4; suffix יְלָדַיGenesis 30:26; 2 Kings 4:1; יַלְדֵיהֶםJob 21:11; יַלְדֵיהֶןGenesis 33:2 4t., etc.; —

a. child = son, boy, Genesis 21:8, 14, 15, 16; 37:30; 42:32 (all E), 32:23 (Dinah not included), compare 30:26; 33:1-2,(twice in verse); 33:5 (twice in verse); 33:6-7, 13; 37:14; 44:20 (all J); Exodus 1:17-18, ("" בֵּן1:16), 2:3, 6 (twice in verse); 2:7-8, 9 (twice in verse); 2:10 (all E), 21:4 (E; app. = sons + daughters, but "" בָּנָי֫21:5); plural = offspring 21:24 (E; Hexateuch, only Genesis & Exodus, J E); also Ruth 1:5; 4:16; 2 Samuel 12:15, 18 (4 t. in verse); 12:19 (twice in verse); 12:21 (twice in verse); 12:22 (twice in verse); 1 Kings 3:25 (compare 3:20), 14:12; 17:21 (twice in verse); 17:22-23, 2 Kings 4:1 (compare 4:5) 4:18; 4:26; 4:34; 4:34; Isaiah 8:18; 9:5 ("" בֵּן‎), Joel 4:3(opposed to יַלְדָּה‎), Zechariah 8:5 (id.); of young of raven Job 38:41; of wild goats and hinds 39:3; of cow and bear Isaiah 11:7.

b. (little) child, children 1 Samuel 1:2 (twice in verse); 2 Samuel 6:23; Ezra 10:1; Nehemiah 12:43; Job 21:11 ("" עֲוִילִים‎), Hosea 1:2; Lamentations 4:10; Isaiah 57:5.

c. descendants Isaiah 29:23, נכרים יַלְדֵי‎ (compare בֵּן‎) 2:6.

d. youth Genesis 4:23 (J), 1 Kings 12:8, 10, 14 2 Chronicles 10:8; 10:10; 10:14; Daniel 1:4; 1:10; 1:13; 1:15; 1:17 compare 2 Kings 2:24 ("" קְטַנִּים נְעָרִים2:23), Ecclesiastes 4:13, 15.

e. figurative of apostate Israelites יִלְדֵיפֶֿשַׁעIsaiah 57:4 ("" שָׁ֑קֶר זֶרַע‎); compare, in good sense, שַׁעֲשׁוּעִים ילדJeremiah 31:20 of Ephraim ("" יַקִּיר בֵּן‎).