limud · taught, disciple

What it means

limud (לִמּוּד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “taught, disciple”.

Taught, instructed; as a noun, a disciple, one who has learned.

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. One who has been taught.
2. Used to something through practice, like an animal that always lives in the same place.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• disciples ×4
• used ×1
• you who are taught ×1

Where it appears

• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×2

• Isaiah 8:16

  Bind up the testimony, seal the instruction among my disciples.

• Isaiah 50:4

  Adonai YHWH has given me a tongue of disciples, to know how to sustain the weary with a word; he wakens morning by morning, he wakens my ear to hear like disciples.

• Isaiah 54:13

  And all your children will be disciples of YHWH, and great will be the peace of your children.

• Jeremiah 2:24

  a wild donkey used to the wilderness, in the craving of her soul sniffing the wind; her heat, who can turn it back? All who seek her will not tire themselves; in her month they will find her.

• Jeremiah 13:23

  Can the Cushite change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Then you also will be able to do good, you who are taught to do evil.

And 1 more times.