Only יָחִיד

Inspiring Words Knight Vision · Feb 22, 2025 · 3m

Our word for today is used the first time in the Bible in our chapter 22 of Genesis which we are still in today. יָחִיד only, only one, only child, lonely, deserted, solitary, single. It is used 12 times in the Old Testament. What is interesting is that 7 out of 12 times it is used it refers to an old child, and 6 of these to an only son. The only daughter is in Judges 11:34 When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an יָחִיד only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter. Then the…