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# יָצוּעַ

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3326

**couch** — used 5 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

couch [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3326/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָצוּעַ: couch, bed [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3326/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] couch, bed (poet.);—sf. יְצוּעִי Gn 49:4; pl. cstr. יְצוּעֵי 1 Ch 5:1; sf. יְצוּעָ֑י Jb 17:13 + 2 times (+ 1 K 6:5, 6, 10 Kt, v. יָצִיעַ); couch, bed, of wedlock or concubinage, Gn 49:4 (J), hence 1 Ch 5:1; in gen. ψ 63:7, עֶרֶשׂ יְצוּעָ֑י 132:3; בַּחֹשֶׁךְ רִפַּדְתִּי יְצוּעָ֑י Jb 17:13 (‖ אִם־אֲקַוֶּה שְׁאוֹל בֵּיתִי; cf. ψ 139:8).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (3 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: beds (2); bed (1); my beds (1).

## In the verses

[Job 17:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.17.13/#tree)

אִם־אֲ֭קַוֶּה שְׁא֣וֹל בֵּיתִ֑י בַּ֝חֹ֗שֶׁךְ רִפַּ֥דְתִּי יְצוּעָֽי׃

*Word for word:* if I.will.wait.for Sheol home my in the darkness I.have.spread.out beds my

*JPS 1917:* If I look for the nether-world as my house; if I have spread my couch in the darkness;

[Psalms 63:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.63.7/#tree)

אִם־זְכַרְתִּ֥יךָ עַל־יְצוּעָ֑י בְּ֝אַשְׁמֻר֗וֹת אֶהְגֶּה־בָּֽךְ׃

*Word for word:* if I have.remembered.you on beds my in.\[the\] night-watches I.meditate on you

*JPS 1917:* When I remember Thee upon my couch, and meditate on Thee in the night-watches.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3326.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3326/): 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).