יָלַד yâlad

Meaning

to bear young; causatively, to beget; medically, to act as midwife; specifically, to show lineage

In the King James Version: 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).

Derivation: a primitive root;

Where it is used

• Nehemiah 12:10 Jeshua was the father of Joiakim, Joiakim was the father of Eliashib, Eliashib was the father of Joiada,
• Nehemiah 12:11 Joiada was the father of Jonathan, and Jonathan was the father of Jaddua.
• Job 1:2 He had seven sons and three daughters,
• Job 3:3 “May the day of my birth perish, and the night it was said, ‘A boy is conceived.’
• Job 5:7 Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
• Job 11:12 But a witless man can no more become wise than the colt of a wild donkey can be born a man!
• Job 14:1 “Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
• Job 15:7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
• Job 15:14 What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
• Job 15:35 They conceive trouble and give birth to evil; their womb is pregnant with deceit.”
• Job 24:21 They prey on the barren and childless, and show no kindness to the widow.
• Job 25:4 How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
• Job 38:21 Surely you know, for you were already born! And the number of your days is great!
• Job 38:28 Does the rain have a father? Who has begotten the drops of dew?
• Job 38:29 From whose womb does the ice emerge? Who gives birth to the frost from heaven,
• Job 39:1 “Do you know when mountain goats give birth? Have you watched the doe bear her fawn?
• Job 39:2 Can you count the months they are pregnant? Do you know the time they give birth?
• Psalms 2:7 I will proclaim the decree spoken to Me by the LORD: “You are My Son; today I have become Your Father.
• Psalms 7:14 Behold, the wicked man travails with evil; he conceives trouble and births falsehood.
• Psalms 22:31 They will come and proclaim His righteousness to a people yet unborn—all that He has done.
• Psalms 48:6 Trembling seized them there, anguish like a woman in labor.
• Psalms 78:6 that the coming generation would know them—even children yet to be born—to arise and tell their own children
• Psalms 87:4 “I will mention Rahab and Babylon among those who know Me—along with Philistia, Tyre, and Cush—when I say, ‘This one was born in Zion.’”
• Psalms 87:5 And it will be said of Zion: “This one and that one were born in her, and the Most High Himself will establish her.”
• Psalms 87:6 The LORD will record in the register of the peoples: “This one was born in Zion.” Selah
• Psalms 90:2 Before the mountains were born or You brought forth the earth and the world, from everlasting to everlasting You are God.
• Proverbs 17:17 A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity.
• Proverbs 17:21 A man fathers a fool to his own grief; the father of a fool has no joy.
• Proverbs 17:25 A foolish son brings grief to his father and bitterness to her who bore him.
• Proverbs 23:22 Listen to your father who gave you life, and do not despise your mother when she is old.
• Proverbs 23:24 The father of a righteous man will greatly rejoice, and he who fathers a wise son will delight in him.
• Proverbs 23:25 May your father and mother be glad, and may she who gave you birth rejoice!
• Proverbs 27:1 Do not boast about tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring.
• Ecclesiastes 3:2 a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,
• Ecclesiastes 4:14 For the youth has come from the prison to the kingship, though he was born poor in his own kingdom.
• Ecclesiastes 5:14 or wealth lost in a failed venture, so when that man has a son there is nothing to pass on.
• Ecclesiastes 6:3 A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
• Ecclesiastes 7:1 A good name is better than fine perfume, and one’s day of death is better than his day of birth.
• Song of Solomon 6:9 but my dove, my perfect one, is unique, the favorite of the mother who bore her. The maidens see her and call her blessed; the queens and concubines sing her praises.
• Song of Solomon 8:5 Who is this coming up from the wilderness, leaning on her beloved? I roused you under the apple tree; there your mother conceived you; there she travailed and brought you forth.
• Isaiah 7:14 Therefore the Lord Himself will give you a sign: Behold, the virgin will be with child and give birth to a son, and will call Him Immanuel.
• Isaiah 8:3 And I had relations with the prophetess, and she conceived and gave birth to a son. The LORD said to me, “Name him Maher-shalal-hash-baz.
• Isaiah 9:6 For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given, and the government will be upon His shoulders. And He will be called Wonderful Counselor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father, Prince of Peace.
• Isaiah 13:8 Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
• Isaiah 21:3 Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.
• Isaiah 23:4 Be ashamed, O Sidon, the stronghold of the sea, for the sea has spoken: “I have not been in labor or given birth. I have not raised young men or brought up young women.”
• Isaiah 26:17 As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.
• Isaiah 26:18 We were with child; we writhed in pain; but we gave birth to wind. We have given no salvation to the earth, nor brought any life into the world.
• Isaiah 33:11 You conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
• Isaiah 37:3 to tell him, “This is what Hezekiah says: Today is a day of distress, rebuke, and disgrace; for children have come to the point of birth, but there is no strength to deliver them.
• Isaiah 39:7 And some of your descendants, your own flesh and blood, will be taken away to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon.”
• Isaiah 42:14 “I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.
• Isaiah 45:10 Woe to him who says to his father, ‘What have you begotten?’ or to his mother, ‘What have you brought forth?’”
• Isaiah 49:21 Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has begotten these for me? I was bereaved and barren; I was exiled and rejected. So who has reared them? Look, I was left all alone, so where did they come from?’”
• Isaiah 51:18 Among all the sons she bore, there is no one to guide her; among all the sons she brought up, there is no one to take her hand.
• Isaiah 54:1 “Shout for joy, O barren woman, who bears no children; break forth in song and cry aloud, you who have never travailed; because more are the children of the desolate woman than of her who has a husband,” says the LORD.
• Isaiah 55:10 For just as rain and snow fall from heaven and do not return without watering the earth, making it bud and sprout, and providing seed to sow and food to eat,
• Isaiah 59:4 No one calls for justice; no one pleads his case honestly. They rely on empty pleas; they tell lies; they conceive mischief and give birth to iniquity.
• Isaiah 65:23 They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them.
• Isaiah 66:7 “Before she was in labor, she gave birth; before she was in pain, she delivered a boy.