יָצַק
yâtsaq · yaw-tsak'
properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication, to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication, to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard
- properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive)
- by implication, to melt or cast as metal
- by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: cast, cleave fast, be (as) firm, grow, be hard, lay out, molten, overflow, pour (out), run out, set down, stedfast.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- צTsade90
Picture: a person lying on their side (or a fish hook)
- Concrete
- hook · trail · side · a man bowed
- Extended
- to hunt · to pursue · need · righteousness as a straight path
- קQof100
Picture: the back of the head, or the sun on the horizon
- Concrete
- back of the head · rising sun · circle
- Extended
- what is behind · the last · a cycle · to come around again
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › to pursue the straight path › what comes behind, the returning cycle
The hand that works that works to pursue the straight path of what comes behind, the returning cycle.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָצַק 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
50 occurrences · 50 OT · 0 NT · 40 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and pour5 · 13%
- and poured4 · 10%
- and he cast4 · 10%
- and thou shalt cast2 · 5%
- were cast2 · 5%
- and he poured2 · 5%
- a molten2 · 5%
- cast2 · 5%
- thereon, and he poured1 · 3%
- and he shall pour1 · 3%
- shall pour1 · 3%
- was poured1 · 3%
- he shall pour1 · 3%
- and laid them out1 · 3%
- and poured them out1 · 3%
- and they set down1 · 3%
- of molten1 · 3%
- when it was cast1 · 3%
- molten1 · 3%
- were all molten1 · 3%
- ran out1 · 3%
- which poured1 · 3%
- and shalt pour out1 · 3%
- the vessels to her; and she poured out1 · 3%
- so they poured out1 · 3%
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.