# H3027 יָד

יָד (yâd), Strong’s H3027: a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.), KJV: ([phrase] be) able, [idiom] about, [phrase] armholes, at, axletree, because of…. Occurs 1,617 times.

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*yâd* — a hand (the open one (indicating power, means, direction, etc.),

KJV: ([phrase] be) able, [idiom] about, [phrase] armholes, at, axletree, because of…

Derived from [כַּף kaph](https://besorah.bible/word/H3709) (the hollow hand or palm)

Occurs 1617 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- יָד 1604 n.f. hand
- 1 hand
- 2 Fig. = strength, power
- 3 Fig. = side
- 4 יָד is used in various special, technical senses:—
- a sign, monument
- b part, fractional part or share
- c time, repetition
- d axle-trees
- e stays, supports for laver
- f tenons on sides of boards of tabernacle
- g a (beckoning) hand
- 5 יַד with prep.

## Where it occurs
- [Genesis 3:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/3?v=22) — The LORD God said, “Behold, the man has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Now, lest he reach out his hand…
- [Genesis 4:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/4?v=11) — Now you are cursed because of the ground, which has opened its mouth to receive your brother’s blood from your hand.
- [Genesis 5:29](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/5?v=29) — He named him Noah, saying, “This one will comfort us in our work and in the toil of our hands, caused by the ground…
- [Genesis 8:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/8?v=9) — but the dove found no place to rest her foot, and she returned into the ship to him, for the waters were on the surface…
- [Genesis 9:2](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=2) — The fear of you and the dread of you will be on every animal of the earth, and on every bird of the sky. Everything…
- [Genesis 9:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/9?v=5) — I will surely require accounting for your life’s blood. At the hand of every animal I will require it. At the hand of…
- [Genesis 14:20](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=20) — Blessed be God Most High, who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” Abram gave him a tenth of all.
- [Genesis 14:22](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/14?v=22) — Abram said to the king of Sodom, “I have lifted up my hand to the LORD, God Most High, possessor of heaven and earth,
- [Genesis 16:6](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=6) — But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold, your maid is in your hand. Do to her whatever is good in your eyes.” Sarai dealt…
- [Genesis 16:9](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/genesis/16?v=9) — The LORD’s angel said to her, “Return to your mistress, and submit yourself under her hands.”