Yadah — To Praise, Give Thanks
Praise with the hands extended — from the Hebrew word for 'hand'. The name Judah comes from this root.
Pronunciation: yaw-daw'
Hebrew · Strong's H3034 · 111 occurrences in the Old Testament (KJV)
physically, to throw (a stone, an arrow) at or away; especially to revere or worship (with extended hands); intensively, to bemoan (by wringing the hands)
KJV translations: cast (out), (make) confess(-ion), praise, shoot, (give) thank(-ful, -s, -sgiving).
Yadah in the Bible — example verses
“And she conceived again, and bare a son: and she said, Now will I praise the LORD: therefore she called his name Judah; and left bearing.”Genesis 29:35 (KJV)
“Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee.”Genesis 49:8 (KJV)
“And it shall be, when he shall be guilty in one of these things, that he shall confess that he hath sinned in that thing:”Leviticus 5:5 (KJV)
“And Aaron shall lay both his hands upon the head of the live goat, and confess over him all the iniquities of the children of Israel, and all their transgressions in all their sins, putting them upon the head of the goat, and shall send him away by the hand of a fit man into the wilderness:”Leviticus 16:21 (KJV)
“If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me;”Leviticus 26:40 (KJV)
“Then they shall confess their sin which they have done: and he shall recompense his trespass with the principal thereof, and add unto it the fifth part thereof, and give it unto him against whom he hath trespassed.”Numbers 5:7 (KJV)
“Therefore I will give thanks unto thee, O LORD, among the heathen, and I will sing praises unto thy name.”2 Samuel 22:50 (KJV)
“When thy people Israel be smitten down before the enemy, because they have sinned against thee, and shall turn again to thee, and confess thy name, and pray, and make supplication unto thee in this house:”1 Kings 8:33 (KJV)
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