Biblical Hebrew

hebrew #3032 - יָדַד yadad (to cast a lot)

Original Word:	יָדַד
Transliteration:	yadad
Definition:	to cast a lot
Part of Speech:	verb
Phonetic Spelling:	(yaw-dad')
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Strong's Exhaustive Concordance

cast

A primitive root; properly, to handle (compare yadah), i.e. To throw, e.g. Lots -- cast.

see HEBREW yadah

Englishman's Concordance

1) (Qal) to throw lots, cast lots (verb)
2) love, loving-one, friend (noun)
Part of Speech: see above in Definition
A Related Word by BDB/Strong’s Number: a primitive root
Same Word by TWOT Number: 845, 846

Brown-Driver-Briggs

I. [יָדַד] verbcast a lot (compare Ethiopic

immittere, etc, Di⁹³⁵) — only

QalPerfect3masculine plural יַדוּ גוֺרָל עַלNahum 3:10; Obadiah 11; יַדוּ גוֺרָל אֶלֿJoshua 4:3. (Possibly wrongly pointed perfects of ידה

Pi`el q. v.)

II. ידד (√ of following; love, compare Arabic love; Aramaic Pa`el love, also derivatives; Sabean epithet feminine ודתloving-one, friend, amie, DHM^{ZMG 1883, 391}; see also דוד).

Englishman's Concordance (References)

Strong's Hebrew: 3032. יָדַד (yadad) — 3 Occurrences

Joel 3:3
HEB:וְאֶל־ עַמִּ֖י יַדּ֣וּ גוֹרָ֑ל וַיִּתְּנ֤וּ
NAS:They have also cast lots
KJV:And they have cast lots for my people;
INT: about my people cast lots Traded

Obadiah 1:11
HEB:וְעַל־ יְרוּשָׁלִַ֙ם֙ יַדּ֣וּ גוֹרָ֔ל גַּם־
NAS: his gate And cast lots
KJV: into his gates, and cast lots
INT: for Jerusalem and cast lots again

Nahum 3:10
HEB:וְעַל־ נִכְבַּדֶּ֙יהָ֙ יַדּ֣וּ גוֹרָ֔ל וְכָל־
NAS: street; They cast lots
KJV: of all the streets: and they cast lots
INT: for her honorable cast lots and all

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