Hebrew verb · H3331
יַצַע
yatsayaw-tsah'
to lay
4 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yatsaʻ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3331is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 4spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3331
to strew as a surface
The King James renders it: make (one's) bed, [idiom] lie, spread.
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
yatsa is rendered "to lay". It stands 4 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Esther 4:3In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
- The Greek text spells it four different ways.
The first use
In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Esther 4:3יֻצַּ֖ע
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
- and I will spread as a bed1
- he spreads as a bed1
- it is spread as a bed1
- it was spread as a bed1
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 4, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
4 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
- וְאַצִּ֖יעָה1
- יַצִּ֔יעַ1
- יֻצַּ֣ע1
- יֻצַּ֖ע1
The grammar of each form
- verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular3HVHi3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singular1HC/Vhc1cs
Esther
one use
In every province to which the king’s command and edict came, there was great mourning among the Jews. They fasted, wept, and lamented, and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
- יֻצַּ֖עyutza'verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it was spread as a bed
Psalms
one use
If I ascend to the heavens, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, You are there.
- וְאַצִּ֖יעָהveatziahconjunction (“and”) + verb · causative (hiphil), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common singulartagged: and I will spread as a bed
Isaiah
two uses
Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
- יֻצַּ֣עyutza'verb · causative passive (hophal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is spread as a bed
Is this the fast I have chosen: a day for a man to deny himself, to bow his head like a reed, and to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Will you call this a fast and a day acceptable to the LORD?
- יַצִּ֔יעַyatzia'verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he spreads as a bed
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.