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Birth-day

The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebrated in the land of Egypt (Gen. This unified study connects 3 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H3205
Hebrew
יָלַד · yâlad

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

יָלַד

H3205
Transliteration
yâlad
Pronunciation
yaw-lad'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
496

Glosses

bear, beget, birth(-day), born, (make to) bring forth (children, young), bring up, calve, child, come, be delivered (of a child), time of delivery, gender, hatch, labour, (do the office of a) midwife, declare pedigrees, be the son of, (woman in, woman that) travail(-eth, -ing woman).

Lexicon definition

to bear young

causatively, to beget

medically, to act as midwife

specifically, to show lineage

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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Easton’s Bible Dictionary (1897)

Birth-day

The observance of birth-days was common in early times (Job 1:4, 13, 18). They were specially celebrated in the land of Egypt (Gen. 40:20). There is no recorded instance in Scripture of the celebration of birth-days among the Jews. On the occasion of Herod's birth-day John the Baptist was beheaded (Matt. 14:6).

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