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# יָצַע

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3331

**lay** — used 4 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

lay [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3331/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יָצַע: vb. Hiph. lay, spread Pu. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3331/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. Hiph. lay, spread, late (Ges§ 71; Aramaic יְצַע Pa. Aph. id., also expound, ‘auslegen;’ Arabic وَضَعَ is put or lay (down, on a place, etc.), but ض = Aramaic ע)— Impf. יַצִּיעַ Is 58:5; אַצִּ֫יעָה ψ 139:8; lay, spread out, sq. acc. שׂק ואפר Is 58:5; שׁאול ψ 139:8 if I spread out Sheʾôl (as my couch). Impf. יֻצַּע (Pu. Pf. De Di al.) be laid, spread; subj. שׂק ואפר Est 4:3; subj. רִמָּה worm, as couch for king of Babylon Is 14:11.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 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: I will spread as a bed (1); he spreads as a bed (1); it is spread as a bed (1).

## In the verses

[Psalms 139:8](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.8/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.139.8/#tree)

אִם־אֶסַּ֣ק שָׁ֭מַיִם שָׁ֣ם אָ֑תָּה וְאַצִּ֖יעָה שְּׁא֣וֹל הִנֶּֽךָּ׃

*Word for word:* if I.will.ascend heavens \[are\].there you and I.will.spread.as.a.bed Sheol there you.\[are\]

*JPS 1917:* If I ascend up into heaven, Thou art there; if I make my bed in the nether-world, behold, Thou art there.

[Isaiah 14:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.11/#tree)

הוּרַ֥ד שְׁא֛וֹל גְּאוֹנֶ֖ךָ הֶמְיַ֣ת נְבָלֶ֑יךָ תַּחְתֶּ֙יךָ֙ יֻצַּ֣ע רִמָּ֔ה וּמְכַסֶּ֖יךָ תּוֹלֵעָֽה׃

*Word for word:* it.has.been.brought.down Sheol pride your the.sound your.lyres your under you it.is.spread.as.a.bed maggot\[s\] and coverings your \[are\].worm\[s\]

*JPS 1917:* Thy pomp is brought down to the nether-world, and the noise of thy psalteries; the maggot is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3331.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3331/): 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).