lamad · teach, learn

What it means

lamad (לָמַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “teach, learn”.

Teach; in another form of the verb, learn.

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. To receive teaching until one knows or masters it.
2. To instruct another with words or example, so that he learns.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To learn; in the intensive form, to teach. It is the same verb with two faces: the one who teaches makes another learn. BDB also gives “to be trained in something”. From the same root come מַלְמָד, “goad”, and תַּלְמִיד, “disciple”.

• Learning to fear YHWH and teaching it to the children Deuteronomy 4:10Deuteronomy 31:12
• “Learn them”: the statutes Deuteronomy 5:1
• “Teach me your statutes” Psalms 119:12Psalms 25:4
• “Learn to do good” Isaiah 1:17
• Learning war, or learning it no more Psalms 18:34Isaiah 2:4

How we translate it

“Teach” 21 times, “learn” 18, “teach me” 13, “taught” 12, “learned” 5, “trained” 5. The form of the verb decides between “learn” and “teach”: “which they will learn… and they will teach their children” (Deuteronomy 4:10). לִמֵּד is “teach” (2 Chronicles 17:9) and מְלֻמְּדֵי שִׁיר “trained in song” (1 Chronicles 25:7).

How it is translated

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

• teach ×21
• learn ×18
• teach me ×13
• taught ×12
• learned ×5
• trained ×5
• teaches ×3
• teaching ×3
• He trains ×2
• teachers ×2
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×17
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Ezra×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×27
• Proverbs×2
• Ecclesiastes×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×9
• Jeremiah×13
• Ezekiel×2
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×1
• Micah×1

• Deuteronomy 4:1

  And now, Israel, listen to the statutes and to the rules that I am teaching you to carry out, so that you may live and go in and take possession of the land that YHWH, the Elohim of your fathers, is giving you.

• Deuteronomy 4:5

  See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as YHWH my Elohim commanded me, so that you may do so in the midst of the land into which you are going to take possession of it.

• Deuteronomy 4:10

  The day that you stood before YHWH your Elohim at Horeb, when YHWH said to me, “Assemble the people for me, and I will make them hear my words, which they will learn in order to fear me all the days that they live on the ground, and they will teach their children.”

• Deuteronomy 4:14

  And YHWH commanded me at that time to teach you statutes and rules, for you to carry them out in the land into which you are crossing to take possession of it.

• Deuteronomy 5:1

  Moses called to all Israel and said to them, Hear, Israel, the statutes and the rules that I am speaking in your hearing today; learn them and be careful to carry them out.

• Deuteronomy 5:31

  But you, stand here with me, and I will speak to you the whole commandment, the statutes and the rules that you shall teach them, so that they may carry them out in the land that I am giving them to take possession of it.”

• Deuteronomy 6:1

  This is the commandment, the statutes and the rules that YHWH your Elohim commanded me to teach you, to carry out in the land into which you are crossing to take possession of it,

• Deuteronomy 11:19

  You shall teach them to your children, speaking of them when you sit in your house and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down and when you rise.

• Deuteronomy 14:23

  And you shall eat before YHWH your Elohim, in the place that he chooses to make his name dwell there, the tithe of your grain, your new wine, and your oil, and the firstborn of your herd and your flock, so that you may learn to fear YHWH your Elohim all the days.

• Deuteronomy 17:19

  And it shall be with him, and he shall read in it all the days of his life, so that he may learn to fear YHWH his Elohim, keeping all the words of this instruction and these statutes, doing them,

• Deuteronomy 18:9

  When you come into the land that YHWH your Elohim is giving you, you shall not learn to do according to the abominations of those nations.

• Deuteronomy 20:18

  so that they do not teach you to do according to all their abominations that they have done for their gods, and you sin against YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 31:12

  Assemble the people, the men and the women and the little ones, and your resident alien who is within your gates, so that they may hear and so that they may learn and fear YHWH your Elohim and take care to do all the words of this instruction;

• Deuteronomy 31:13

  and that their sons, who have not known, may hear and learn to fear YHWH your Elohim all the days that you live on the land that you are crossing the Jordan to go there and possess it.”

• Deuteronomy 31:19

  And now, write for yourselves this song, and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song may be for me a witness against the sons of Israel.

• Deuteronomy 31:22

  And Moses wrote this song on that day and taught it to the sons of Israel.

• Judges 3:2

  only so that the generations of the sons of Israel might know, to teach them war, only those who before had not known them:

• 2 Samuel 1:18

  and he said to teach the sons of Judah the song of the Bow. Look, it is written in the Book of the Upright:

• 2 Samuel 22:35

  He trains my hands for war, and my arms bend a bow of bronze.

• 1 Chronicles 5:18

  The sons of Reuben, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh, of the valiant, men who carried shield and sword, who drew the bow, and trained for war, were forty-four thousand seven hundred and sixty, who went out to the army.

• 1 Chronicles 25:7

  Their number with their brothers, trained in song for YHWH, all the skilled, was two hundred eighty- eight.

• 2 Chronicles 17:7

  In the third year of his reign he sent his officials, Ben-hail, Obadiah, Zechariah, Nethanel, and Micaiah, to teach in the cities of Judah;

• 2 Chronicles 17:9

  They taught in Judah, and with them was the book of the law of YHWH; they went around through all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.

• Ezra 7:10

  For Ezra had set his heart to seek the law of YHWH and to do it, and to teach in Israel statute and rule.

• Job 21:22

  Will anyone teach knowledge to El, since he judges those on high?

• Psalms 18:34

  He trains my hands for war, and my arms bend a bow of bronze.

• Psalms 25:4

  Your ways, YHWH, make me know; your paths teach me.

• Psalms 25:5

  Direct me in your truth and teach me, for you are the Elohim of my salvation; for you I have waited all the day.

• Psalms 25:9

  He directs the humble in justice, and teaches the humble his way.

• Psalms 34:11

  Come, children, listen to me; the fear of YHWH I will teach you.

• Psalms 51:13

  I will teach transgressors your ways, and sinners will return to you.

• Psalms 60:1

  For the director. On The Lily of the Testimony. A Miktam of David, for teaching, when he fought against Aram-naharaim and against Aram of Zobah, and Joab returned and struck Edom in the Valley of Salt, twelve thousand. Elohim, you have rejected us, you have broken through us; you have been angry; restore us.

• Psalms 71:17

  Elohim, you have taught me from my youth, and until now I declare your wonders.

• Psalms 94:10

  He who corrects nations, does he not reprove? he who teaches human beings knowledge!

• Psalms 94:12

  Happy is the man whom you correct, Yah, and from your instruction you teach him,

• Psalms 106:35

  but they mixed with the nations and learned their works.

• Psalms 119:7

  I will give you thanks with uprightness of heart when I learn your righteous rules.

• Psalms 119:12

  Blessed are you, YHWH; teach me your statutes.

• Psalms 119:26

  My ways I recounted, and you answered me; teach me your statutes.

• Psalms 119:64

  Of your loyal love, YHWH, the earth is full; your statutes teach me.

And 46 more times.