Strong's Hebrew · H3173
H3173 yâchîyd
יָחִיד
yaw-kheed'
darling, desolate, only (child, son), solitary.
Looking for Greek G3173 mégas? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3173. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
yâchîyd appears 12 times in Scripture, including Genesis 22:2 and Judges 11:34. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
Definition
properly, united, i.e. sole; by implication, beloved; also lonely; (feminine) the life (as not to be replaced)
Derivation
from H3161 (יָחַד);
Appears 12 times in Scripture
“When I was a son to my father, tender and the only child of my mother,”
““Do not lay a hand on the boy or do anything to him,” said the angel, “for now I know that you fear God, since you have not withheld your only son from me.””
“How long, O Lord, will You look on? Rescue my soul from their ravages, my precious life from these lions.”
“And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.”
“saying, “By Myself I have sworn, declares the LORD, that because you have done this and have not withheld your only son,”
““Take your son,” God said, “your only son Isaac, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. Offer him there as a burnt offering on one of the mountains, which I will show you.””
“Turn to me and be gracious, for I am lonely and afflicted.”
“Deliver my soul from the sword, my precious life from the power of wild dogs.”
“God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.”
“Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.”
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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
