yachad · together

What it means

yachad (יַחַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “together”.

At the same time.

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. At the same time and in the same place, or with one purpose.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Together, at the same time; all as one. BDB: properly a unit; adverbially, unitedly. It comes from יָחַד, “to be united”.

• “The two of them went together” Genesis 22:6
• “They could not live together” Genesis 13:6
• “For brothers to dwell also together” Psalms 133:1
• “Let us exalt his name together” Psalms 34:3
• “All flesh will see {it} together” Isaiah 40:5

How we translate it

“Together” 127 times, “alike” 6, “all” 2, “altogether” 2… “Together” also where it stresses that all do it at once (Isaiah 40:5).

How it is translated

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

• together ×127
• alike ×6
• all ×2
• altogether ×2
• alone ×1
• once ×1
• right away ×1
• united ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×6
• Exodus×3
• Deuteronomy×8
• Joshua×2
• Judges×2
• 1 Samuel×4
• 2 Samuel×6
• 1 Kings×1
• 1 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×3
• Job×16
• Psalms×27
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×34
• Jeremiah×17
• Lamentations×1
• Hosea×3
• Amos×2
• Micah×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 13:6

  But the land could not support them living together, for their possessions were great, and they could not live together.

• Genesis 22:6

  Abraham took the wood for the burnt offering and laid it on Isaac his son, and he took in his hand the fire and the knife. And the two of them went together.

• Genesis 22:8

  Abraham said, “Elohim will see for himself the lamb for a burnt offering, my son.” And the two of them went on together.

• Genesis 22:19

  Abraham returned to his young men, and they rose and went together to Beersheba. And Abraham lived in Beersheba.

• Genesis 36:7

  For their possessions were too great for them to dwell together, and the land where they resided as aliens could not support them because of their livestock.

• Exodus 19:8

  All the people answered together and said, “All that YHWH has spoken we will do.” And Moses brought back the words of the people to YHWH.

• Exodus 26:24

  They shall be doubled from below, and together they shall be complete at its top, at the first ring; so it shall be for both of them; they shall form the two corners.

• Exodus 36:29

  And they were double from below, and together they were complete to its top, at the one ring; so he made for both of them, for the two corners.

• Deuteronomy 12:22

  Just as the gazelle and the deer is eaten, so you shall eat it; the unclean and the clean alike may eat it.

• Deuteronomy 15:22

  Within your gates you may eat it; the unclean and the clean alike, as they eat the gazelle and the deer.

• Deuteronomy 22:10

  You shall not plow with an ox and a donkey together.

• Deuteronomy 22:11

  You shall not put on mixed cloth, wool and linen together.

• Deuteronomy 25:5

  If brothers live together and one of them dies and has no son, the wife of the dead man shall not belong, outside the family, to a strange man. Her brother-in-law shall go in to her and take her for himself as a wife and perform the duty of a brother-in-law to her.

• Deuteronomy 25:11

  When men fight together, a man and his brother, and the wife of the one comes near to rescue her husband from the hand of the one striking him, and she puts out her hand and seizes him by his private parts,

• Deuteronomy 33:5

  And there was a king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people gathered, the tribes of Israel together.

• Deuteronomy 33:17

  The firstborn of his bull, splendor is his, and his horns are the horns of a wild ox; with them he will gore the peoples, all together, to the ends of the earth. And they are the myriads of Ephraim, and they are the thousands of Manasseh.”

• Joshua 9:2

  they gathered together to fight with Joshua and with Israel with one voice.

• Joshua 11:5

  All these kings met by appointment and came and camped together at the waters of Merom to fight with Israel.

• Judges 6:33

  All Midian, Amalek, and the sons of the east gathered together, crossed over, and camped in the valley of Jezreel.

• Judges 19:6

  So they sat down and ate, the two of them together, and drank; and the father of the young woman said to the man, “Please consent to spend the night, and let your heart be merry.”

• 1 Samuel 11:11

  And it came about on the next day that Saul put the people in three groups, and they came into the midst of the camp in the watch of the morning, and they struck Ammon until the heat of the day. And those who remained scattered, and not two of them were left together.

• 1 Samuel 17:10

  The Philistine said, “I reproach the battle lines of Israel this day. Give me a man, and let us fight together.”

• 1 Samuel 30:24

  Who will listen to you in this matter? For as the share of him who goes down into battle, so shall be the share of him who stays by the baggage; they shall share alike.”

• 1 Samuel 31:6

  So Saul died, and his three sons, and the one who carried his weapons, and also all his men, on that day together.

• 2 Samuel 2:13

  And Joab son of Zeruiah and the servants of David went out and met them at the pool of Gibeon together; and they sat down, these on this side of the pool and those on that side of the pool.

• 2 Samuel 2:16

  And each one seized his companion by the head and thrust his sword into the side of his companion, and they fell together. And they called that place Helkath-hazzurim, which is in Gibeon.

• 2 Samuel 10:15

  When Aram saw that it had been struck down before Israel, they gathered together.

• 2 Samuel 12:3

  but the poor man had nothing except one little ewe lamb that he had acquired. He raised it, and it grew up with him and with his sons together; from his morsel it would eat, and from his cup it would drink, and in his bosom it would lie; and it was to him like a daughter.

• 2 Samuel 14:16

  For the king will listen, to deliver his servant from the hand of the man who seeks to destroy me and my son together from the inheritance of Elohim.’

• 2 Samuel 21:9

  and he gave them into the hand of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before YHWH. The seven of them fell together; they were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of the barley harvest.

• 1 Kings 3:18

  And it happened, on the third day after I gave birth, that this woman also gave birth. And we were together; there was no stranger with us in the house, only the two of us in the house.

• 1 Chronicles 10:6

  So Saul died, and his three sons; and all his house died together.

• 1 Chronicles 12:17

  David went out before them and answered and said to them, “If you have come to me in peace, to help me, I will have toward you a heart united; but if it is to deceive me in favor of my adversaries, though there is no violence in my palms, may the Elohim of our fathers see and judge.”

• Ezra 4:3

  But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel said to them, “It is not for you and for us to build a house for our Elohim; but we alone will build for YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, as King Cyrus king of Persia commanded us.”

• Nehemiah 4:8

  and they conspired all of them together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause it confusion.

• 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 6:7

  And you have also set up prophets to proclaim about you in Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah.’ And now it will be heard by the king according to these words. So now come, and let us take counsel together.”

• 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 3:18

  Together the prisoners are untroubled; they do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.

• Job 6:2

  “If only my vexation were truly weighed, and my calamity lifted onto the scales together.

And 101 more times.