yachid · only, only one

What it means

yachid (יָחִיד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “only, only one”.

Only, alone; from there "dearly loved"; also one's life, which cannot be replaced.

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. The only child of his parents, the most beloved.
2. To be without family or company, isolated.
3. My life, which is unique and cannot be replaced, when in danger.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• only one ×6
• only ×4
• alone ×1
• solitary ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×3
• Judges×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 22:2

  He said, “Take, please, your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, and offer him up there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains that I will tell you.”

• Genesis 22:12

  He said, “Do not stretch out your hand against the boy, and do not do anything to him, for now I know that you fear Elohim, since you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me.”

• Genesis 22:16

  and said, “By myself I have sworn, declares YHWH, because you have done this thing and have not withheld your son, your only one,

• Judges 11:34

  Jephthah came to Mizpah, to his house, and there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dances. She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

• Psalms 22:20

  Deliver my soul from the sword, from the hand of the dog my only one.

• Psalms 25:16

  Turn to me and show me favor, for I am alone and afflicted.

• Psalms 35:17

  Adonai, how long will you look on? Bring back my soul from their ravages, from the young lions my only one.

• Psalms 68:6

  Elohim makes the solitary dwell in a home; he brings out prisoners into prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

• Proverbs 4:3

  For I was a son to my father, tender and only before my mother.

• Jeremiah 6:26

  Daughter of my people, gird yourself with sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

• Amos 8:10

  And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into a funeral song; and I will bring up on all loins sackcloth, and on every head baldness; and I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

• Zechariah 12:10

  And I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitant of Jerusalem a spirit of favor and of supplications; and they will look to me, whom they have pierced; and they will lament over him like the lament over the only one, and grieve bitterly over him as one grieves bitterly over the firstborn.