יָעַד

yaad · appoint; meet

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3259 · appears 29 times in the Bible

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What it means

yaad (יָעַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “appoint; meet”.

Appoint, assign someone to something; set a place or a time and, from there, meet there; "the tent of meeting".

How to say it

ya·ad

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

To meet someone at the place and time agreed.
For several to gather together, sometimes to act against someone.
To designate beforehand for whom, when or where something falls.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

I will meet ×5
will summon me ×3
has appointed it ×2
let us meet ×2
shall gather ×2
who had gathered ×2
I meet ×1
are the ones gathered together ×1
assembled ×1
directed ×1
others ×9

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Where it appears

Exodus 21:8
If she is displeasing in the eyes of her master, who had designated her for himself, he shall let her be ransomed; he shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt treacherously with her.
Exodus 21:9
And if he designates her for his son, he shall deal with her according to the custom for daughters.
Exodus 25:22
There I will meet with you, and I will speak with you from above the cover of expiation, from between the two cherubim that are on the ark of the testimony, all that I will command you for the sons of Israel.
Exodus 29:42
It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the entrance of the tent of meeting before YHWH, where I will meet with you to speak to you there.
Exodus 29:43
There I will meet with the sons of Israel, and it shall be sanctified by my glory.
Exodus 30:6
You shall put it in front of the veil that is by the ark of the testimony, in front of the cover of expiation that is over the testimony, where I will meet with you.
Exodus 30:36
You shall grind some of it very fine and put some of it before the testimony in the tent of meeting, where I will meet with you; most holy it shall be to you.
Numbers 10:3
And when they blow them, the whole community shall gather to you at the entrance of the tent of meeting.
Numbers 10:4
But if they blow only one, then the chiefs, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather to you.
Numbers 14:35
I, YHWH, have spoken; surely this I will do to all this evil community that has gathered together against me: in this wilderness they shall come to an end, and there they shall die.”
Numbers 16:11
Therefore you and all your community are the ones gathered together against YHWH; and Aaron, what is he, that you grumble against him?”
Numbers 17:4
And you shall leave them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.
Numbers 27:3
“Our father died in the wilderness, and he was not among the community of those who gathered together against YHWH in the community of Korah, but in his own sin he died, and he had no sons.
Joshua 11:5
All these kings met by appointment and came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight with Israel.
2 Samuel 20:5
Amasa went to call out Judah, but he delayed beyond the appointed time that he had appointed him.
1 Kings 8:5
And King Solomon and all the community of Israel who had gathered to him were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
2 Chronicles 5:6
King Solomon and all the community of Israel, who had gathered to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
Nehemiah 6:2
Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come, and let us meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they were planning to do me harm.
Nehemiah 6:10
And I went into the house of Shemaiah son of Delaiah, son of Mehetabel, and he was shut in; and he said, “Let us meet at the house of Elohim, inside the temple, and let us shut the doors of the temple, for they are coming to kill you; and by night they are coming to kill you.”
Job 2:11
When Job’s three companions heard all this evil that had come upon him, they came, each from his place, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; they arranged to meet together to come to show him sympathy and to comfort him.
Job 9:19
If it is a matter of strength, look, he is mighty; and if of justice, who will summon me?
Psalms 48:4
For look, the kings assembled; they passed by together.
Jeremiah 24:1
YHWH showed me, and look, two baskets of figs placed before the temple of YHWH, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried into exile Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, and the craftsmen and the smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 47:7
How can you be quiet, when YHWH has given it orders? Against Ashkelon and against the shore of the sea, there he has appointed it.
Jeremiah 49:19
Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicket of the Jordan against the perennial fold; for in an instant I will make him run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it; for who is like me? And who will summon me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
Jeremiah 50:44
Look, like a lion he comes up from the thicket of the Jordan against the perennial fold; for in an instant I will make them run from it, and whoever is chosen I will appoint over it; for who is like me? And who will summon me? And who is this shepherd who will stand before me?
Ezekiel 21:16
Unite yourself, go right; set yourself, go left; wherever your face is directed.
Amos 3:3
Do two walk together unless they have agreed to meet?
Micah 6:9
The voice of YHWH calls to the city, and sound judgment sees your name: “Hear the rod, and who has appointed it.