Yâdad — H3032

Definition

verb

properly, to handle, i.e. to throw, e.g. lots

1. v
2. (Qal) to throw lots, cast lots
3. n
4. love, loving-one, friend

Usually translated as

cast

Origin

a primitive root; (compare H3034)

• Yâdâh (H3034)

Greek equivalents

• bállō (G906)

Occurrences

Yâdad occurs 3 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Joel (1), Obadiah (1), Nahum (1)

• Joel 3:3 — And they have cast (יַדּ֣וּ) lots for my people; and have given a boy for an harlot, and sold a girl for wine, that they might drink.
• Obadiah 1:11 — In the day that thou stoodest on the other side, in the day that the strangers carried away captive his forces, and foreigners entered into his gates, and cast (יַדּ֣וּ) lots upon Jerusalem, even thou wast as one of them.
• Nahum 3:10 — Yet was she carried away, she went into captivity: her young children also were dashed in pieces at the top of all the streets: and they cast (יַדּ֣וּ) lots for her honourable men, and all her great men were bound in chains.