יָדַד
yadad · cast (lots)
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3032 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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yadad (יָדַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “cast (lots)”.
To throw, cast, used of casting lots to divide people or goods.
How to say it
ya·dad
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 cast lots over people or goods to share them out.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- they cast ×2
- cast ×1
Related words
Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Joel 3:3
And for my people they cast lots, and gave the boy for a prostitute, and the girl they sold for wine, and drank it.
- Obadiah 1:11
On the day that you stood aloof, on the day that strangers carried off his army, and foreigners entered his gates and cast lots over Jerusalem, you too were like one of them.
- Nahum 3:10
She too went into exile, into captivity; her infants too were dashed to pieces at the head of every street; and for her honored men they cast lots, and all her great men were bound in fetters.