יָחִיד H3173

Home gloss

only one

Instead of (KJV / RSV)

only son / only son

Note

The one and only, used as a noun: "your son, your only one" (22:2, 12, 16); Jephthah's daughter (Judg 11:34); "mourning for an only one" (Amos 8:10; Zech 12:10). LXX "beloved" (ἀγαπητός). See the note at 22:2. Clash with אַךְ "only" raised in the report

Rulings

2, 46

Declared to share English with

H389 — false clash (124f): only one / only

Occurrences (3)

Genesis 22

22:2 And he said, "Take, please, your son, your only one, whom you love, Isaac, and go for yourself to the land of Moriah, and bring him up there for an ascent on one of the mountains which I shall say to you."
22:12 And he said, "Do not send your hand to the lad, and do not do to him anything; for now I know that fearing Elohim are you, and you have not withheld your son, your only one, from me."
22:16 and said, "By myself I have sworn—oracle of —that, because you have done this word, and have not withheld your son, your only one,