יַ֫חַד
ya.chad (H3162A)
unitedness
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# יַחַד (Yachad): Togetherness and Union in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew word *yachad* denotes the concept of "unitedness"—a state of being together or in union. With 43 occurrences across the biblical text, this term represents a fundamental idea in Hebrew thought about collectivity and shared action. The word captures not merely physical proximity but the notion of things or persons functioning as a coherent whole, whether describing people gathering, nations uniting, or abstract concepts joining together. The frequency and distribution of this term across 43 biblical passages suggests its importance in describing both practical and theological situations. The definition "unitedness" indicates the word functions as a noun expressing the quality or condition of being united rather than simply denoting an act of joining. This makes *yachad* particularly useful for biblical authors when emphasizing harmony, collective identity, or the unified nature of a group or action—whether describing Israel as a people, multiple parties acting in concert, or divine and human purposes aligning. Without access to the specific contextual occurrences, the lexical data alone indicates that *yachad* served as a key term for expressing unity across diverse biblical narratives and discourses. Its modest but consistent presence (43 times) suggests it was a standard rather than rare or specialized vocabulary choice for biblical writers addressing themes of collective action and unified states of being.
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He was king in Jeshurun, when the heads of the people were gathered, all the tribes of Israel together.
On the next day, Saul put the people in three companies; and they came into the middle of the camp in the morning watch, and struck the Ammonites until the heat of the day. Those who remained were scattered, so that no two of them were left together.
The Philistine said, “I defy the armies of Israel today! Give me a man, that we may fight together!”
When the Syrians saw that they were defeated by Israel, they gathered themselves together.
For the king will hear, to deliver his servant out of the hand of the man who would destroy me and my son together out of the inheritance of God.
He delivered them into the hands of the Gibeonites, and they hanged them on the mountain before Yahweh, and all seven of them fell together. They were put to death in the days of harvest, in the first days, at the beginning of barley harvest.
David went out to meet them, and answered them, “If you have come peaceably to me to help me, my heart will be united with you; but if you have come to betray me to my adversaries, since there is no wrong in my hands, may the God of our fathers see this and rebuke it.”
But Zerubbabel, and Jeshua, and the rest of the heads of fathers’ households of Israel, said to them, “You have nothing to do with us in building a house to our God; but we ourselves together will build to Yahweh, the God of Israel, as king Cyrus the king of Persia has commanded us.”
There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster.
“Oh that my anguish were weighed, and all my calamity laid in the balances!
“ ‘Your hands have framed me and fashioned me altogether, yet you destroy me.
They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.
Shall it go down with me to the gates of Sheol, or descend together into the dust?”
His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
They lie down alike in the dust. The worm covers them.
They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
If my land cries out against me, and its furrows weep together;
When he gives quietness, who then can condemn? When he hides his face, who then can see him? He is over a nation or a man alike,
when the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?
Hide them in the dust together. Bind their faces in the hidden place.
The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
For I have heard the slander of many, terror on every side, while they conspire together against me, they plot to take away my life.
All who hate me whisper together against me. They imagine the worst for me.
For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others.
Surely men of low degree are just a breath, and men of high degree are a lie. In the balances they will go up. They are together lighter than a breath.
Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.
They said in their heart, “We will crush them completely.” They have burned up all the places in the land where God was worshiped.
They came around me like water all day long. They completely engulfed me.
Let the rivers clap their hands. Let the mountains sing for joy together.
See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity!
Let the wicked fall together into their own nets while I pass by.
All your rulers fled away together. They were bound by the archers. All who were found by you were bound together. They fled far away.
Wrath is not in me, but if I should find briers and thorns, I would do battle! I would march on them and I would burn them together.
“I have been silent a long time. I have been quiet and restrained myself. Now I will cry out like a travailing woman. I will both gasp and pant.
Put me in remembrance. Let us plead together. Declare your case, that you may be justified.
Behold, all his fellows will be disappointed; and the workmen are mere men. Let them all be gathered together. Let them stand up. They will fear. They will be put to shame together.
Rain, you heavens, from above, and let the skies pour down righteousness. Let the earth open, that it may produce salvation, and let it cause righteousness to spring up with it. I, Yahweh, have created it.
He who justifies me is near. Who will bring charges against me? Let us stand up together. Who is my adversary? Let him come near to me.
My people are determined to turn from me. Though they call to the Most High, he certainly won’t exalt them.
“How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I make you like Zeboiim? My heart is turned within me, my compassion is aroused.
I will surely assemble, Jacob, all of you; I will surely gather the remnant of Israel; I will put them together as the sheep of Bozrah, as a flock in the middle of their pasture; they will swarm with people.