yad

[yahd, yawd]

noun

Hebrew.

plural

yadim 

1. a tapered, usually ornamented rod, usually of silver, with the tip of the tapered part forming a fist with the index finger extended, used by the reader of a scroll of the Torah as a place marker.

yad

/ jɑd /

noun

1. Judaism a hand-held pointer used for reading the sefer torah

Word History and Origins

Origin of yad¹

yādh literally, hand

Word History and Origins

Origin of yad¹

Hebrew

Example Sentences

Daniel Peretz, who emigrated from South Africa to Israel when he was 13 and lived in the central town of Yad Binyamin, was a captain in the IDF's 7th Armoured Brigade.

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Bardella had earlier visited some of the places where Hamas carried out attacks on 7 October 2023, and Israel's Holocaust memorial institute Yad Vashem.

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Yad Vashem, Israel’s Holocaust memorial museum, was especially moving to Steinberg.

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So far, Amara Yad has completed two volumes focused on the anatomy of the heart and is enlisting teams at other universities for more.

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He and another physician enlisted the Holocaust remembrance group Yad Vashem and publicly pushed for the University of Vienna to investigate whose bodies were depicted in its pages.

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