yeled · child, boy

What it means

yeled (יֶלֶד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “child, boy”.

Young man; offspring.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. A small child, or a boy who is not yet a grown man.
2. A son or daughter of someone; his direct offspring.
3. Young males, no longer children but not yet full-grown men.
4. An animal's offspring.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Child, boy; also son, the one born to someone, and the young of an animal. It comes from יָלַד, “give birth, beget” (H3205).

• The little child: Isaac, Moses, David's son Genesis 21:8Exodus 2:62 Samuel 12:18
• The children of a family Genesis 33:5Ruth 1:5
• The young men who grew up with the king 1 Kings 12:8
• Chosen youths Daniel 1:4
• “A child has been born to us” Isaiah 9:6

How we translate it

“Child” 39 times, “children” 28, “young men” 6, “youths” 5, “young” 4 (the young of animals, Isaiah 11:7), “boys” 3. This edition renders יֶלֶד “child” and, when he is an adult, “young man” (“and a young man for striking me”, Genesis 4:23; so “the young men” of 1 Kings 12:8). In Ruth 1:5 it is “sons”.

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• child ×39
• children ×28
• young men ×6
• youths ×5
• young ×4
• boys ×3
• youth ×2
• boy ×1
• sons ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×19
• Exodus×12
• Ruth×2
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×12
• 1 Kings×9
• 2 Kings×6
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Job×3
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Isaiah×7
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Daniel×5
• Hosea×1
• Joel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 4:23

  And Lamech said to his wives, “Adah and Zillah, hear my voice; wives of Lamech, listen to my saying: for a man I have killed for wounding me, and a young man for striking me.

• Genesis 21:8

  The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham made a great feast on the day that Isaac was weaned.

• Genesis 21:14

  Abraham rose early in the morning, took bread and a skin of water, and gave them to Hagar, putting them on her shoulder, and also the child, and sent her away. She went and wandered in the wilderness of Beersheba.

• Genesis 21:15

  When the water in the skin was used up, she threw the child under one of the bushes.

• Genesis 21:16

  Then she went and sat down opposite him a good way off, about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not see the death of the child.” And she sat opposite him, lifted up her voice, and wept.

• Genesis 30:26

  Give me my wives and my children, for whom I have served you, and let me go, for you know my service with which I have served you.”

• Genesis 32:22

  He rose that night and took his two wives, his two slave women, and his eleven children, and crossed the ford of the Jabbok.

• Genesis 33:1

  Jacob lifted his eyes and looked, and look, Esau was coming, and with him four hundred men. So he divided the children among Leah, Rachel, and the two slave women.

• Genesis 33:2

  He put the slave women and their children first, Leah and her children after them, and Rachel and Joseph last.

• Genesis 33:5

  He lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, “Who are these with you?” He said, “The children with whom Elohim has favored your servant.”

• Genesis 33:6

  Then the slave women came near, they and their children, and bowed down.

• Genesis 33:7

  Leah also came near with her children, and they bowed down; and afterward Joseph came near with Rachel, and they bowed down.

• Genesis 33:13

  He said to him, “My lord knows that the children are tender, and the flocks and the cattle that are nursing their young are in my care; if they are driven hard one day, all the flock will die.

• Genesis 33:14

  Please let my lord pass on ahead of his servant, and I will lead on slowly, at the pace of the livestock that is ahead of me and at the pace of the children, until I come to my lord in Seir.”

• Genesis 37:30

  He returned to his brothers and said, “The child is gone! And I, where am I to go?”

• Genesis 42:22

  Reuben answered them, saying, “Did I not tell you, ‘Do not sin against the child’? But you did not listen. And look, his blood too is being required.”

• Genesis 44:20

  And we said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a young child of his old age; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’

• Exodus 1:17

  But the midwives feared Elohim and did not do as the king of Egypt had told them, but let the boys live.

• Exodus 1:18

  So the king of Egypt called the midwives and said to them, “Why have you done this and let the boys live?”

• Exodus 2:3

  When she could no longer hide him, she took for him an ark of papyrus, coated it with bitumen and with pitch, put the child in it, and set it among the reeds on the bank of the Nile.

• Exodus 2:6

  She opened it and saw him, the child, and look, a boy crying! She had pity on him and said, “This is one of the children of the Hebrews.”

• Exodus 2:7

  His sister said to the daughter of Pharaoh, “Shall I go and call for you a nursing woman from the Hebrew women to nurse the child for you?”

• Exodus 2:8

  The daughter of Pharaoh said to her, “Go.” So the young woman went and called the mother of the child.

• Exodus 2:9

  The daughter of Pharaoh said to her, “Take this child and nurse him for me, and I will give you your wages.” So the woman took the child and nursed him.

• Exodus 2:10

  When the child grew up, she brought him to the daughter of Pharaoh, and he became her son. She named him Moses, and said, “Because I drew him out of the water.”

• Exodus 21:4

  If his master gives him a wife and she bears him sons or daughters, the wife and her children shall belong to her master, and he shall go out alone.

• Exodus 21:22

  When men fight and hurt a pregnant woman so that her children come out, but there is no harm, he shall surely be fined as the woman's husband imposes on him, and he shall pay as the judges decide.

• Ruth 1:5

  Then both of them, Mahlon and Chilion, also died, and the woman was left without her two sons and without her husband.

• Ruth 4:16

  Then Naomi took the child and laid him in her bosom and was the one who reared him.

• 1 Samuel 1:2

  He had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah, and the name of the second Peninnah. And Peninnah had children, but Hannah had no children.

• 2 Samuel 6:23

  And Michal the daughter of Saul had no child until the day of her death.

• 2 Samuel 12:15

  Then Nathan went to his house. And YHWH struck the child that the wife of Uriah had borne to David, and he became very ill.

• 2 Samuel 12:18

  And it happened on the seventh day that the child died. And the servants of David were afraid to tell him that the child was dead, for they said, “Look, while the child was alive, we spoke to him, and he did not listen to our voice; so how can we say to him, ‘The child is dead’? He may do something evil.”

• 2 Samuel 12:19

  When David saw that his servants were whispering together, David understood that the child was dead; and David said to his servants, “Is the child dead?” They said, “He is dead.”

• 2 Samuel 12:21

  His servants said to him, “What is this thing that you have done? For the sake of the child, while he was alive, you fasted and wept; but when the child died, you rose and ate bread.”

• 2 Samuel 12:22

  He said, “While the child was still alive, I fasted and wept, for I said, ‘Who knows whether YHWH will show me favor, and the child will live?’

• 1 Kings 3:25

  And the king said, “Cut the living child in two, and give half to the one and half to the other.”

• 1 Kings 12:8

  But he abandoned the counsel of the elders that they had counseled him, and sought counsel from the young men who had grown up with him, who stood before him.

• 1 Kings 12:10

  The young men who had grown up with him spoke to him, saying, “Thus you shall say to this people who spoke to you, saying, ‘Your father made heavy our yoke, but you, lighten it from on us’; thus you shall speak to them: ‘My little finger is thicker than the waist of my father.

• 1 Kings 12:14

  and he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made heavy your yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

And 49 more times.