יָסַף
yâçaph · yaw-saf'
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: add, [idiom] again, [idiom] any more, [idiom] cease, [idiom] come more, [phrase] conceive again, continue, exceed, [idiom] further, [idiom] gather together, get more, give more-over, [idiom] henceforth, increase (more and more), join, [idiom] longer (bring, do, make, much, put), [idiom] (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, [idiom] yet, yield.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- סSamekh60
Picture: a prop or pillar
- Concrete
- pillar · prop · thorn
- Extended
- to support · to uphold · to turn around · to be trusted
- פPe80
Picture: an open mouth
- Concrete
- mouth · lips · teeth
- Extended
- to speak · a word · an edge or opening · to scatter speech
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › to support and uphold › to speak, the word
The hand that works that works to support and uphold that works to speak, the word.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָסַף above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
212 occurrences · 212 OT · 0 NT · 160 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- again23 · 24%
- no more9 · 10%
- more7 · 7%
- yet again7 · 7%
- any more4 · 4%
- i will not again3 · 3%
- yet more3 · 3%
- not again3 · 3%
- and shall add3 · 3%
- so to me, and more2 · 2%
- thou shalt no more2 · 2%
- further2 · 2%
- it, then he shall add2 · 2%
- and more also2 · 2%
- increaseth2 · 2%
- continued2 · 2%
- and i will add2 · 2%
- add2 · 2%
- them any more2 · 2%
- no more again2 · 2%
- and more2 · 2%
- more and more2 · 2%
- him yet the more2 · 2%
- thou hast increased2 · 2%
- and again2 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.