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title: וָלָד — offspring · The Tanakh dictionary
description: וָלָד (2056), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 1 times: offspring. BDB 1906: n.m. offspring, child. With 1 verse in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# וָלָד

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«וָלָד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **offspring** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 1 verse in layers.

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**Used:** 1 times · **Key:** 2056 · **BDB:** וָלָד²

### Glosses

a.child (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

offspring [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1493/2056/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. offspring, child [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1493/2056/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. offspring, child, only אֵין לָהּ וָלָ֑ד Gn 11:30 (J); si vera l. = Arabic وَلَدٌ; Ethiopic ወልድ (with orig. ו);—in 2 S 6:23, where some edd. have ולד Kt, יָ֑לֶד Qr, Bear and van d. H. give יָ֑לֶד Kt.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (8 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (8 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «וָלָד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1493/2056/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Genesis 11:30](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.11.30/)

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וַתְּהִ֥י שָׂרַ֖י עֲקָרָ֑ה אֵ֥ין לָ֖הּ וָלָֽד׃

*Word for word:* and she.was Sarai barren there.\[belonged\].not to her a.child

*JPS 1917:* And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

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