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# יְסוֹד

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3247

**foundation** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

foundation [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3247/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יְסוֹד: n.f. foundation, base [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3247/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. Ez 13:17 (m. Jb 22:16) foundation, base abs. יְסוֹד Hb 3:13 + 2 times; cstr. id. Ex 29:12 + 9 times; sf. יְסֹדוֹ Ez 13:14; יְסוֹדָם Jb 4:19; 22:16; וִיסֹדֶיהָ Mi 1:6; יְסֹדֹתֶיהָ La 4:11; יְסוֹדוֹתֶיהָ Ez 30:4;— foundation of city (wall) Mi 1:6 ψ 137:7, cf. La 4:11; fig. of Egypt Ez 30:4; שַׁעַר הַיְסוֹד 2 Ch 23:5 one of gates of temple (but read שׁ׳ סוּר 2 K 11:6 or שׁ׳ סוּם \[rather שׁ׳ הַסּוּסִים\] Th Klo); fig. of men יס׳ בֶּעָפָר; ‖ שֹׁכְנֵי בָֽתֵּי חֹמֶר Jb 4:19, cf. 22:16; of righteous Pr 10:25; of hostile prince under fig. of house Hb 3:13 (details obscure, v b prob. corrupt, v. We); of false prophecies under fig. of wall of defence Ez 13:14 base, bottom, of altar Ex 29:12; Lv 4:7, 18, 25, 30, 34; 5:9; 8:15; 9:9 (all P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (7 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: the base (9); foundation (3); foundations (3).

## In the verses

[Job 22:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.22.16/#tree)

אֲשֶֽׁר־קֻמְּט֥וּ וְלֹא־עֵ֑ת נָ֝הָ֗ר יוּצַ֥ק יְסוֹדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* who they.were.seized and not an.appropriate.time a.river it.was.poured.out foundation their

*JPS 1917:* Who were snatched away before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a stream;

[Proverbs 10:25](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.25/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.10.25/#tree)

כַּעֲב֣וֹר ס֭וּפָה וְאֵ֣ין רָשָׁ֑ע וְ֝צַדִּ֗יק יְס֣וֹד עוֹלָֽם׃

*Word for word:* just as.passes.by a.storm-wind and not \[the\].wicked.\[are\] and a.righteous.\[person\] \[is\].a.foundation of.perpetuity

*JPS 1917:* When the whirlwind passeth, the wicked is no more; but the righteous is an everlasting foundation.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3247.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3247/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).