Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3257
יָע
yayaw
shovel
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3257is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 7spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3257
a shovel
The King James renders it: shovel.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
ya is rendered "shovel". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Two of the uses stand in Exodus, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 27:3Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
- The Greek text spells it seven different ways.
The first use
Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
Exodus 27:3וְיָעָיו֙
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- the shovels8
- and shovels its1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
7 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- הַיָּעִ֖ים2
- הַיָּעִ֜ים2
- הַיָּעִים֙1
- הַיָּעִ֣ים1
- הַיָּעִ֤ים1
- הַיָּעִ֨ים1
- וְיָעָיו֙1
The grammar of each form
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural8HTd/Ncmpa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmpc/Sp3ms
Exodus
two uses
Make all its utensils of bronze—its pots for removing ashes, its shovels, its sprinkling bowls, its meat forks, and its firepans.
- וְיָעָיו֙veyaavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and shovels its
He made all the altar’s utensils of bronze—its pots, shovels, sprinkling bowls, meat forks, and firepans.
- הַיָּעִים֙haiyaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the shovels
Numbers
one use
and place on it all the vessels used to serve there: the firepans, meat forks, shovels, and sprinkling bowls—all the equipment of the altar. They are to spread over it a covering of fine leather and insert the poles.
- הַיָּעִ֣יםhaiyaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the shovels
1 Kings
two uses
Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished all the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of the LORD:
- הַיָּעִ֖יםhaiyaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the shovels
and the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. All the articles that Huram made for King Solomon in the house of the LORD were made of burnished bronze.
- הַיָּעִ֜יםhaiyaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the shovels
2 Kings
one use
They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.
- הַיָּעִ֜יםhaiyaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the shovels
2 Chronicles
two uses
Additionally, Huram made the pots, shovels, and sprinkling bowls. So Huram finished the work that he had undertaken for King Solomon in the house of God:
- הַיָּעִ֖יםhaiyaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the shovels
and the pots, shovels, meat forks, and all the other articles. All these objects that Huram-abi made for King Solomon for the house of the LORD were of polished bronze.
- הַיָּעִ֤יםhaiyaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the shovels
Jeremiah
one use
They also took away the pots, shovels, wick trimmers, sprinkling bowls, dishes, and all the articles of bronze used in the temple service.
- הַיָּעִ֨יםhaiyaimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the shovels
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.