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יָהַד

ya.had

to become a Jew

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Strong’s H3054Verb1 time in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

were becoming jews1

In the text

Esther 8:17מִתְיַהֲדִים
In every province and every city, wherever the king’s edict and decree reached, there was joy and gladness among the Jews, with feasting and celebrating. And many of the people of the land themselves became Jews, because the fear of the Jews had fallen upon them.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[יהד] vb. denom. Hithp. become a Jew—only Est 8:17

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.