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title: יָדַד — cast · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יָדַד (3032), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 3 times: cast. BDB 1906: vb. cast Pi. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יָדַד

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«יָדַד» in the Tanakh dictionary: **cast** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 3 times · **Key:** 3032 · **BDB:** יָדַד

### Glosses

they.cast (2); they.have.cast (1)

### Meaning (OSHB)

cast [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3032/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

vb. cast Pi. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3032/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** vb. cast a lot (cf. Ethiopic ወደደ immittere, etc. Di 935)—only Pf. 3 mpl. יַדּוּ גוֹרָל עַל Na 3:10; Ob 11; יַדּוּ גוֹרָל אֶל־ Jo 4:3. (Poss. wrongly pointed pfs. of ידה Pi. q.v.)

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (13 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (10 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יָדַד» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3032/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joel 4:3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOL.4.3/)

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וְאֶל־עַמִּ֖י יַדּ֣וּ גוֹרָ֑ל וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ הַיֶּ֙לֶד֙ בַּזּוֹנָ֔ה וְהַיַּלְדָּ֛ה מָכְר֥וּ בַיַּ֖יִן וַיִּשְׁתּֽוּ׃

*Word for word:* and to people my they.have.cast a.lot and they.have.exchanged the boy for the prostitute and the girl they.have.sold for (the) wine and they.have.drunk

*JPS 1917:* And they have cast lots for My people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, and have drunk.

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[Obadiah 1:11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/OBA.1.11/)

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בְּיוֹם֙ עֲמָֽדְךָ֣ מִנֶּ֔גֶד בְּי֛וֹם שְׁב֥וֹת זָרִ֖ים חֵיל֑וֹ וְנָכְרִ֞ים בָּ֣אוּ שְׁעָרָ֗יו וְעַל־יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ יַדּ֣וּ גוֹרָ֔ל גַּם־אַתָּ֖ה כְּאַחַ֥ד מֵהֶֽם׃

*Word for word:* on the.day stood you from before on the.day took.captive strangers wealth his and foreigners they.came gates his and on Jerusalem they.cast a.lot also you \[were\].like one of them

*JPS 1917:* In the day that thou didst stand aloof, in the day that strangers carried away his substance, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.

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