יָעַד
ya.ad
to appoint
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredThe Hebrew word "ya.ad" (H3259) is a verb that means "to appoint." It is used 29 times in the Bible, primarily in the context of covenant and promise. This word is often associated with"; The act of designating or selecting someone or something for a specific purpose or role. In the biblical context, this can involve appointing leaders, making covenants, or promising blessings. The significance of "ya.ad" lies in its connection to the establishment of relationships, whether between individuals, groups, or God and humanity.
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Occurrences in Scripture
29 total occurrences across the text
Sanballat 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 6:10I went to the house of Shemaiah the son of Delaiah the son of Mehetabel, who was shut in at his home; and he said, “Let us meet together in God’s house, within the temple, and let’s shut the doors of the temple; for they will come to kill you. Yes, in the night they will come to kill you.”
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 9:19If it is a matter of strength, behold, he is mighty! If of justice, ‘Who,’ says he, ‘will summon me?’
Psalms 48:4For, behold, the kings assembled themselves, they passed by together.
Jeremiah 24:1Yahweh showed me, and behold, two baskets of figs were set before Yahweh’s temple, after Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim, king of Judah, and the princes of Judah, with the craftsmen and smiths, from Jerusalem, and had brought them to Babylon.
Jeremiah 47:7“How can you be quiet, since Yahweh has given you a command? Against Ashkelon, and against the seashore, there has he appointed it.”
Jeremiah 49:19“Behold, he will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation: for I will suddenly make them run away from it; and whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it. For who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who will stand before me?”
Jeremiah 50:44Behold, the enemy will come up like a lion from the pride of the Jordan against the strong habitation; for I will suddenly make them run away from it. Whoever is chosen, I will appoint him over it; for who is like me? Who will appoint me a time? Who is the shepherd who can stand before me?”
Ezekiel 21:16Gather yourselves together. Go to the right. Set yourselves in array. Go to the left, wherever your face is set.
Amos 3:3Do two walk together, unless they have agreed?
Micah 6:9Yahweh’s voice calls to the city, and wisdom sees your name: “Listen to the rod, and he who appointed it.
Exodus 21:8If she doesn’t please her master, who has married her to himself, then he shall let her be redeemed. He shall have no right to sell her to a foreign people, since he has dealt deceitfully with her.
Exodus 21:9If he marries her to his son, he shall deal with her as a daughter.
Exodus 25:22There I will meet with you, and I will tell you from above the mercy seat, from between the two cherubim which are on the ark of the covenant, all that I command you for the children of Israel.
Exodus 29:42It shall be a continual burnt offering throughout your generations at the door of the Tent of Meeting before Yahweh, where I will meet with you, to speak there to you.
Exodus 29:43There I will meet with the children of Israel; and the place shall be sanctified by my glory.
Exodus 30:6You shall put it before the veil that is by the ark of the covenant, before the mercy seat that is over the covenant, where I will meet with you.
Exodus 30:36You shall beat some of it very small, and put some of it before the covenant in the Tent of Meeting, where I will meet with you. It shall be to you most holy.
Numbers 10:3When they blow them, all the congregation shall gather themselves to you at the door of the Tent of Meeting.
Numbers 10:4If they blow just one, then the princes, the heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves to you.
Numbers 14:35I, Yahweh, have spoken. I will surely do this to all this evil congregation who are gathered together against me. In this wilderness they shall be consumed, and there they shall die.”
Numbers 16:11Therefore you and all your company have gathered together against Yahweh! What is Aaron that you complain against him?”
Numbers 17:4You shall lay them up in the Tent of Meeting before the covenant, where I meet with you.
Numbers 27:3“Our father died in the wilderness. He was not among the company of those who gathered themselves together against Yahweh in the company of Korah, but he died in his own sin. He had no sons.
Joshua 11:5All these kings met together; and they came and encamped together at the waters of Merom, to fight with Israel.
2 Samuel 20:5So Amasa went to call the men of Judah together; but he stayed longer than the set time which he had appointed him.
1 Kings 8:5King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle, that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.
2 Chronicles 5:6King Solomon and all the congregation of Israel, who were assembled to him, were before the ark, sacrificing sheep and cattle that could not be counted or numbered for multitude.