For "devoted to religious life" see Jastrow on the Rabbinic Hebrew usage, while many ms. have אחיד at that point, q.v. Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 238b; Jastrow: 574; Tal Sam: 340a; Cook,Qumran: 102;
yḥydy (ī/yəḥīḏāy) adj. lone