יָסַדyâçad
establish, found, fix
Pronunciation: yaw-sad' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3245
Meanings
Qal: found, establish (Psalms 104:5; Proverbs 3:19; Psalms 24:2)
Niph`al
1. fix or seat themselves close together sit in conclave (Psalms 2:2; Psalms 31:14; Nehemiah 6:2)
2. be founded (Isaiah 44:28; Exodus 9:18)
Pi`el
1. found, (= Qal) (Joshua 6:26; 1 Kings 16:34; 1 Kings 5:31)
2. establish (Psalms 8:3; 1 Chronicles 9:22; Esther 1:8)
Pu`al: be founded, be laid, of a foundation (1 Kings 6:37; Ezra 3:6; 1 Kings 7:10)
Hoph`al: be founded (2 Chronicles 3:3; Ezra 3:11; Isaiah 28:16)
Same root
- יְסֻדyᵉçud · H3246a foundation (figuratively, i.e. beginning)
- יְסוֹדyᵉçôwd · H3247a foundation (literally or figuratively)
- מוּסָדmûwçâd · H4143a foundation
- מוֹסָדmôwçâd · H4144a foundation
- מְיֻסָּדָהmᵉyuççâdâh · H4328something founded, i.e. a foundation
- מַסַּדmaççad · H4527a foundation
- סוֹדçôwd · H5475a session, i.e. company of persons (in close deliberation); by implication, intimacy, consultation, a secret
Where it appears
Appears 43 times in the Bible.
- Exodus 9:18 So tomorrow at this time I will send a hailstorm more devastating than any in all the history of Egypt.
- Joshua 6:26 At that time Joshua invoked this curse: “May the curse of the Lord fall on anyone who tries to rebuild the town of Jericho. At the cost of his firstborn son, he will lay its foundation. At the cost of his youngest son, he will set up its gates.”
- 1 Kings 5:17 At the king’s command, they quarried large blocks of high-quality stone and shaped them to make the foundation of the Temple.
- 1 Kings 6:37 The foundation of the Lord’s Temple was laid in midspring, in the month of Ziv, during the fourth year of Solomon’s reign.
- 1 Kings 7:10 Some of the huge foundation stones were 15 feet long, and some were 12 feet long.
- 1 Kings 16:34 It was during his reign that Hiel, a man from Bethel, rebuilt Jericho. When he laid its foundations, it cost him the life of his oldest son, Abiram. And when he completed it and set up its gates, it cost him the life of his youngest son, Segub. This all happened according to the message from the Lord concerning Jericho spoken by Joshua son of Nun.
See every passage
- Exodus 9:18
- Joshua 6:26
- 1 Kings 5:17, 6:37, 7:10, 16:34
- 1 Chronicles 9:22
- 2 Chronicles 3:3, 24:27, 31:7
- Ezra 3:6, 3:10, 3:11, 3:12
- Esther 1:8
- Job 38:4
- Psalms 2:2, 8:2, 24:2, 31:13, 78:69, 89:11, 102:25, 104:5, 104:8, 119:152
- Proverbs 3:19
- Song of Solomon 5:15
- Isaiah 14:32, 23:13, 28:16, 44:28, 48:13, 51:13, 51:16, 54:11
- Amos 9:6
- Habakkuk 1:12
- Haggai 2:18
- Zechariah 4:9, 8:9, 12:1
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).