יָחְדָּו
yach.dav
together
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# יָחְדָּו (Yachdav): "Together" The Hebrew word *yachdav* appears 98 times throughout the Hebrew Bible and carries the straightforward meaning of "together." This adverb functions to indicate collective action or simultaneity—describing when multiple entities or agents participate in the same action or exist in the same state at the same time. Its frequency across the biblical text (nearly 100 occurrences) suggests it was a common and essential term for expressing concepts of unity and coordination in ancient Hebrew writing. The word's relatively high occurrence rate indicates that biblical authors regularly needed to communicate the idea of collective participation or simultaneous events. Rather than being a specialized or rare term, *yachdav* represents everyday Hebrew vocabulary that would have been immediately intelligible to native speakers. This prevalence reflects the practical importance of expressing togetherness in narrative, legal, and poetic contexts—whether describing groups acting in unison, multiple witnesses present simultaneously, or collective experiences. Without access to the specific contextual examples of all 98 usages, the lexical data alone confirms that *yachdav* functioned as a reliable means of conveying togetherness in biblical Hebrew. Its consistent translation as "together" across occurrences suggests minimal semantic variation, making it a stable and dependable term rather than one carrying multiple or shifting meanings.
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Occurrences in Scripture
98 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
and they all conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem, and to cause confusion among us.
Nehemiah 6:2Sanballat and Geshem sent to me, saying, “Come! Let’s meet together in the villages in the plain of Ono.” But they intended to harm me.
Nehemiah 6:7You have also appointed prophets to proclaim of you at Jerusalem, saying, ‘There is a king in Judah!’ Now it will be reported to the king according to these words. Come now therefore, and let’s take counsel together.”
Job 2:11Now when Job’s three friends heard of all this evil that had come on him, they each came from his own place: Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite, and Zophar the Naamathite; and they made an appointment together to come to sympathize with him and to comfort him.
Job 9:32For he is not a man, as I am, that I should answer him, that we should come together in judgment.
Job 24:17For the morning is to all of them like thick darkness, for they know the terrors of the thick darkness.
Job 34:15all flesh would perish together, and man would turn again to dust.
Psalms 4:8In peace I will both lay myself down and sleep, for you, Yahweh alone, make me live in safety.
Psalms 14:3They have all gone aside. They have together become corrupt. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Psalms 19:9The fear of Yahweh is clean, enduring forever. Yahweh’s ordinances are true, and righteous altogether.
Psalms 34:3Oh magnify Yahweh with me. Let’s exalt his name together.
Psalms 35:26Let them be disappointed and confounded together who rejoice at my calamity. Let them be clothed with shame and dishonor who magnify themselves against me.
Psalms 37:38As for transgressors, they shall be destroyed together. The future of the wicked shall be cut off.
Psalms 40:14Let them be disappointed and confounded together who seek after my soul to destroy it. Let them be turned backward and brought to dishonor who delight in my hurt.
Psalms 48:4For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.
Psalms 53:3Every one of them has gone back. They have become filthy together. There is no one who does good, no, not one.
Psalms 55:14We took sweet fellowship together. We walked in God’s house with company.
Psalms 71:10For my enemies talk about me. Those who watch for my soul conspire together,
Psalms 83:5For they have conspired together with one mind. They form an alliance against you.
Psalms 102:22when the peoples are gathered together, the kingdoms, to serve Yahweh.
Psalms 122:3Jerusalem, that is built as a city that is compact together,
Proverbs 22:18For it is a pleasant thing if you keep them within you, if all of them are ready on your lips.
Isaiah 1:28But the destruction of transgressors and sinners shall be together, and those who forsake Yahweh shall be consumed.
Isaiah 1:31The strong will be like tinder, and his work like a spark. They will both burn together, and no one will quench them.”
Isaiah 9:21Manasseh, Ephraim; and Ephraim, Manasseh; and they together shall be against Judah. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
Isaiah 10:8For he says, “Aren’t all of my princes kings?
Isaiah 11:6The wolf will live with the lamb, and the leopard will lie down with the young goat, the calf, the young lion, and the fattened calf together; and a little child will lead them.
Isaiah 11:7The cow and the bear will graze. Their young ones will lie down together. The lion will eat straw like the ox.
Isaiah 11:14They will fly down on the shoulders of the Philistines on the west. Together they will plunder the children of the east. They will extend their power over Edom and Moab, and the children of Ammon will obey them.
Isaiah 18:6They will be left together for the ravenous birds of the mountains, and for the animals of the earth. The ravenous birds will eat them in the summer, and all the animals of the earth will eat them in the winter.
Isaiah 22:3All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
Isaiah 31:3Now the Egyptians are men, and not God; and their horses flesh, and not spirit. When Yahweh stretches out his hand, both he who helps shall stumble, and he who is helped shall fall, and they all shall be consumed together.
Isaiah 40:5Yahweh’s glory shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
Isaiah 41:1“Keep silent before me, islands, and let the peoples renew their strength. Let them come near, then let them speak. Let’s meet together for judgment.
Isaiah 41:19I will put cedar, acacia, myrtle, and oil trees in the wilderness. I will set cypress trees, pine, and box trees together in the desert;
Isaiah 41:20that they may see, know, consider, and understand together, that Yahweh’s hand has done this, and the Holy One of Israel has created it.
Isaiah 41:23Declare the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and see it together.
Isaiah 43:9Let all the nations be gathered together, and let the peoples be assembled. Who among them can declare this, and show us former things? Let them bring their witnesses, that they may be justified, or let them hear, and say, “That is true.”
Isaiah 43:17who brings out the chariot and horse, the army and the mighty man (they lie down together, they shall not rise; they are extinct, they are quenched like a wick) says:
Isaiah 45:16They will be disappointed, yes, confounded, all of them. Those who are makers of idols will go into confusion together.
Isaiah 45:20“Assemble yourselves and come. Draw near together, you who have escaped from the nations. Those have no knowledge who carry the wood of their engraved image, and pray to a god that can’t save.
Isaiah 45:21Declare and present it. Yes, let them take counsel together. Who has shown this from ancient time? Who has declared it of old? Haven’t I, Yahweh? There is no other God besides me, a just God and a Savior. There is no one besides me.
Isaiah 46:2They stoop and they bow down together. They could not deliver the burden, but they have gone into captivity.
Isaiah 48:13Yes, my hand has laid the foundation of the earth, and my right hand has spread out the heavens. when I call to them, they stand up together.
Isaiah 52:8Your watchmen lift up their voice. Together they sing; for they shall see eye to eye when Yahweh returns to Zion.
Isaiah 52:9Break out into joy! Sing together, you waste places of Jerusalem; for Yahweh has comforted his people. He has redeemed Jerusalem.
Isaiah 60:13“The glory of Lebanon shall come to you, the cypress tree, the pine, and the box tree together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.
Isaiah 65:7your own iniquities, and the iniquities of your fathers together”, says Yahweh, “who have burned incense on the mountains, and blasphemed me on the hills. Therefore I will first measure their work into their bosom.”
Isaiah 66:17“Those who sanctify themselves and purify themselves to go to the gardens, behind one in the middle, eating pig’s meat, abominable things, and the mouse, they shall come to an end together,” says Yahweh.
Jeremiah 3:18In those days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together out of the land of the north to the land that I gave for an inheritance to your fathers.