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H3034 יָדָה (yâdâh) yaw-daw'
Hebrew
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Strong's Definition

a primitive root; used only as denominative from 3027; literally, to use (i.e. hold out) the hand; physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands)

KJV Usage: cast (out), (make) confess(-ion), praise, shoot, (give) thank(-ful, -s, -sgiving)

STEPBible — Tyndale Abridged Hebrew Lexicon

יָדָה (ya.dah) — to give thanks. 1) to throw, shoot, cast 1a) (Qal) to shoot (arrows) 1b) (Piel) to cast, cast down, throw down 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to give thanks, laud, praise 1c2) to confess, confess (the name of God) 1d) (Hithpael) 1d1) to confess (sin) 1d2) to give thanks Aramaic equivalent: ye.da (יְדָא "to praise" H3029)

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew

verb · הֹוד · הֻיְּדֹות · תֹּודָה

Speak | verb hif

Collocation: ידה שֵׁם

to confess (God's) name literally: to confess (God's) name; hence: = action by which humans publicly admit their own shortcomings before God, or the shortcomings of the people they represent

1KI 8:33 · 1KI 8:35 · 2CH 6:24 · 2CH 6:26 · PSA 44:9 · PSA 54:8 · PSA 99:3 · PSA 138:2 · PSA 142:8 · ISA 25:1

Speak | verb hit, verb hif

to confess, to make confession = action by which humans publicly admit their own shortcomings before God, or the shortcomings of the people they represent

LEV 5:5 · LEV 16:21 · LEV 26:40 · NUM 5:7 · 2CH 30:22 · EZR 10:1 · NEH 1:6 · NEH 9:2 · NEH 9:3 · PSA 32:5 · PRO 28:13 · DAN 9:4 · DAN 9:20

Praise | verb hif, verb hit, verb haf'el | ≈ הלל · זכר · זמר · חנן · ידע · פלל · שׁבח

to praise, to give praise = action by which humans openly express recognition of what someone else has done or achieved

GEN 29:35 · GEN 49:8 · 2SA 22:50 · 1CH 16:4 · 1CH 16:7 · 1CH 16:8 · 1CH 16:34 · 1CH 16:35 · 1CH 16:41 · 1CH 23:30 · 1CH 25:3 · 1CH 29:13 · 2CH 5:13 · 2CH 7:3 · 2CH 7:6 · 2CH 20:21 · 2CH 30:22 · 2CH 31:2 · EZR 3:11 · NEH 11:17 · NEH 12:24 · NEH 12:46 · JOB 40:14 · PSA 6:6 · PSA 7:18 · PSA 9:2 · PSA 18:50 · PSA 28:7 · PSA 30:5 · PSA 30:10 · PSA 30:13 · PSA 33:2 · PSA 35:18 · PSA 42:6 · PSA 42:12 · PSA 43:4 · PSA 43:5 · PSA 45:18 · PSA 49:19 · PSA 52:11 · PSA 57:10 · PSA 67:4 · PSA 67:4 · PSA 67:6 · PSA 67:6 · PSA 71:22 · PSA 75:2 · PSA 75:2 · PSA 76:11 · PSA 79:13 · PSA 86:12 · PSA 88:11 · PSA 89:6 · PSA 92:2 · PSA 97:12 · PSA 100:4 · PSA 105:1 · PSA 106:1 · PSA 106:47 · PSA 107:1 · PSA 107:8 · PSA 107:15 · PSA 107:21 · PSA 107:31 · PSA 108:4 · PSA 109:30 · PSA 111:1 · PSA 118:1 · PSA 118:19 · PSA 118:21 · PSA 118:28 · PSA 118:29 · PSA 119:7 · PSA 119:62 · PSA 122:4 · PSA 136:1 · PSA 136:2 · PSA 136:3 · PSA 136:26 · PSA 138:1 · PSA 138:4 · PSA 139:14 · PSA 140:14 · PSA 145:10 · ISA 12:1 · ISA 12:4 · ISA 38:18 · ISA 38:19 · JER 33:11 · DAN 2:23 · DAN 6:11

verb

Move | verb qal, verb pi

to throw, to shoot = action by which an object, used as a weapon, is caused to move forcefully in a certain direction

JER 50:14 · LAM 3:53

Move | verb pi | ≠ נשׂא

to throw down = action or process by which something is caused to move forcefully to the ground, ≈ an image of loss of power

ZEC 2:4

1 2CH 30:22 NJPS "confessing" REB "making confession" = [1a] | RSV NRSV ESV "giving thanks" NIV NJB CEV "praised" GNT "in praise" = [1b] 2 NEH 11:17 The expression יְהֹודֶה לַתְּפִלָּה may mean "to lead the prayer" as רֹאשׁ הַתְּחִלָּה "leader of the praise" 3 LAM 3:53 the singular אֶבֶן "stone", along with LXX's use of ἐπιτιθέναι to translate the verb leads many (cf. REB NJB) to interpret this verse in the sense indicated by GNT "to close (the opening of a pit) with a stone"

Timothy L. Wilt; Enio R. Mueller

UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew © United Bible Societies, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon

[יָדָה] vb. throw, cast Qal shoot (arrows) at

Pi. and they cast (stones) on me

Hiph. give thanks, laud, praise

confess

Hithp. confess

give thanks, in ritual worship

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