yedid · beloved

What it means

yedid (יְדִיד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “beloved”.

Dear.

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. Someone or something loved much and dear to the sight.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• beloved ×6
• dear one ×2
• loves ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×1
• Psalms×5
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1

• Deuteronomy 33:12

  Of Benjamin he said, “The beloved of YHWH will dwell in security beside him; he shields him all the day, and between his shoulders he dwells.”

• Psalms 45:1

  For the director. On The Lilies. Of the sons of Korah. A maskil. A song of loves. My heart overflows with a good word; I speak my works to the king; my tongue is the pen of a skillful scribe.

• Psalms 60:5

  So that your beloved ones may be delivered, save with your right hand and answer me.

• Psalms 84:1

  For the director. On the Gitit. Of the sons of Korah. A psalm. How beloved are your dwellings, YHWH Tsevaot!

• Psalms 108:6

  So that your beloved ones may be delivered, save with your right hand and answer me.

• Psalms 127:2

  It is in vain for you to rise early to get up, to be late to sit down, to eat the bread of anxious toils; so he gives to his beloved sleep.

• Isaiah 5:1

  Let me sing now for my dear one the song of my beloved about his vineyard: My dear one had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

• Jeremiah 11:15

  What right has my beloved in my house, when she has carried out her schemes, the many? And the holy flesh will pass from upon you, for in your evil, then you exult.

And 1 more times.