יָד yâd

Meaning

a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),

In the King James Version: ([phrase] be) able, [idiom] about, [phrase] armholes, at, axletree, because of, beside, border, [idiom] bounty, [phrase] broad, (broken-) handed, [idiom] by, charge, coast, [phrase] consecrate, [phrase] creditor, custody, debt, dominion, [idiom] enough, [phrase] fellowship, force, [idiom] from, hand(-staves, -y work), [idiom] he, himself, [idiom] in, labour, [phrase] large, ledge, (left-) handed, means, [idiom] mine, ministry, near, [idiom] of, [idiom] order, ordinance, [idiom] our, parts, pain, power, [idiom] presumptuously, service, side, sore, state, stay, draw with strength, stroke, [phrase] swear, terror, [idiom] thee, [idiom] by them, [idiom] themselves, [idiom] thine own, [idiom] thou, through, [idiom] throwing, [phrase] thumb, times, [idiom] to, [idiom] under, [idiom] us, [idiom] wait on, (way-) side, where, [phrase] wide, [idiom] with (him, me, you), work, [phrase] yield, [idiom] yourselves.

Derivation: a primitive word; in distinction from H3709 (כַּף), the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great variety of applications, both literally and figuratively, both proximate and remote (as follows)

Where it is used

• Psalms 119:173 May Your hand be ready to help me, for I have chosen Your precepts.
• Psalms 121:5 The LORD is your keeper; the LORD is the shade on your right hand.
• Psalms 123:2 As the eyes of servants look to the hand of their master, as the eyes of a maidservant look to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes are on the LORD our God until He shows us mercy.
• Psalms 125:3 For the scepter of the wicked will not rest upon the land allotted to the righteous, so that the righteous will not put forth their hands to injustice.
• Psalms 127:4 Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.
• Psalms 134:2 Lift up your hands to the sanctuary and bless the LORD!
• Psalms 135:15 The idols of the nations are silver and gold, made by the hands of men.
• Psalms 136:12 with a mighty hand and an outstretched arm. His loving devotion endures forever.
• Psalms 138:7 If I walk in the midst of trouble, You preserve me from the anger of my foes; You extend Your hand, and Your right hand saves me.
• Psalms 138:8 The LORD will fulfill His purpose for me. O LORD, Your loving devotion endures forever—do not abandon the works of Your hands.
• Psalms 139:10 even there Your hand will guide me; Your right hand will hold me fast.
• Psalms 140:4 Guard me, O LORD, from the hands of the wicked. Keep me safe from men of violence who scheme to make me stumble.
• Psalms 140:5 The proud hide a snare for me; the cords of their net are spread along the path, and lures are set out for me. Selah
• Psalms 141:6 When their rulers are thrown down from the cliffs, the people will listen to my words, for they are pleasant.
• Psalms 141:9 Keep me from the snares they have laid for me, and from the lures of evildoers.
• Psalms 143:5 I remember the days of old; I meditate on all Your works; I consider the work of Your hands.
• Psalms 143:6 I stretch out my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a parched land. Selah
• Psalms 144:1 Of David. Blessed be the LORD, my Rock, who trains my hands for war, my fingers for battle.
• Psalms 144:7 Reach down from on high; set me free and rescue me from the deep waters, from the grasp of foreigners,
• Psalms 144:11 Set me free and rescue me from the grasp of foreigners, whose mouths speak falsehood, whose right hands are deceitful.
• Psalms 145:16 You open Your hand and satisfy the desire of every living thing.
• Psalms 149:6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a double-edged sword in their hands,
• Proverbs 1:24 Because you refused my call, and no one took my outstretched hand,
• Proverbs 3:27 Do not withhold good from the deserving when it is within your power to act.
• Proverbs 6:5 Free yourself, like a gazelle from the hand of the hunter, like a bird from the snare of the fowler.
• Proverbs 6:10 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
• Proverbs 6:17 haughty eyes, a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood,
• Proverbs 7:20 He took with him a bag of money and will not return till the moon is full.”
• Proverbs 8:3 Beside the gates to the city, at the entrances she cries out:
• Proverbs 10:4 Idle hands make one poor, but diligent hands bring wealth.
• Proverbs 11:21 Be assured that the wicked will not go unpunished, but the offspring of the righteous will escape.
• Proverbs 12:14 By fruitful speech a man is filled with good things, and the work of his hands returns to him.
• Proverbs 12:24 The hand of the diligent will rule, but laziness ends in forced labor.
• Proverbs 13:11 Dishonest wealth will dwindle, but what is earned through hard work will be multiplied.
• Proverbs 14:1 Every wise woman builds her house, but a foolish one tears it down with her own hands.
• Proverbs 16:5 Everyone who is proud in heart is detestable to the LORD; be assured that he will not go unpunished.
• Proverbs 17:16 Why should the fool have money in his hand with no intention of buying wisdom?
• Proverbs 18:21 Life and death are in the power of the tongue, and those who love it will eat its fruit.
• Proverbs 19:24 The slacker buries his hand in the dish; he will not even bring it back to his mouth.
• Proverbs 21:1 The king’s heart is a waterway in the hand of the LORD; He directs it where He pleases.
• Proverbs 21:25 The craving of the slacker kills him because his hands refuse to work.
• Proverbs 24:33 A little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to rest,
• Proverbs 26:6 Like cutting off one’s own feet or drinking violence is the sending of a message by the hand of a fool.
• Proverbs 26:9 Like a thorn that goes into the hand of a drunkard is a proverb in the mouth of a fool.
• Proverbs 26:15 The slacker buries his hand in the dish; it wearies him to bring it back to his mouth.
• Proverbs 30:28 and the lizard can be caught in one’s hands, yet it is found in the palaces of kings.
• Proverbs 30:32 If you have foolishly exalted yourself or if you have plotted evil, put your hand over your mouth.
• Proverbs 31:19 She stretches out her hands to the distaff and grasps the spindle with her fingers.
• Proverbs 31:20 She opens her arms to the poor and reaches out her hands to the needy.
• Proverbs 31:31 Give her the fruit of her hands, and let her works praise her at the gates.
• Ecclesiastes 2:11 Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
• Ecclesiastes 2:24 Nothing is better for a man than to eat and drink and enjoy his work. I have also seen that this is from the hand of God.
• Ecclesiastes 4:1 Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.
• Ecclesiastes 4:5 The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.
• Ecclesiastes 5:6 Do not let your mouth cause your flesh to sin, and do not tell the messenger that your vow was a mistake. Why should God be angry with your words and destroy the work of your hands?
• Ecclesiastes 5:14 or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
• Ecclesiastes 5:15 As a man came from his mother’s womb, so he will depart again, naked as he arrived. He takes nothing for his labor to carry in his hands.
• Ecclesiastes 7:18 It is good to grasp the one and not let the other slip from your hand. For he who fears God will follow both warnings.
• Ecclesiastes 7:26 And I find more bitter than death the woman who is a snare, whose heart is a net, and whose hands are chains. The man who pleases God escapes her, but the sinner is ensnared.
• Ecclesiastes 9:1 So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.