yanach · put, leave

What it means

yanach (יָנַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “put, leave”.

Put, set down, leave in a place; let rest.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. To let someone rest and settle in a place.
2. To set something or someone in a place.
3. To leave something where it is and not take it away; not to hinder.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To put, to leave something or someone in a place and leave it there; also to leave alone, not to touch. BDB gives it as a form of the root נוּחַ (rest, H5117): literally, to cause to rest in a place.

• Putting someone in a place Genesis 2:15Genesis 19:16
• Setting something down before YHWH or storing it Deuteronomy 26:101 Samuel 10:25
• Leaving the peoples not driven out Judges 2:23Judges 3:1
• Leaving alone, doing no harm Psalms 105:142 Samuel 16:11
• Holding someone in custody Leviticus 24:12Numbers 15:34

How we translate it

“Leave” 18 times, “left” 10, “put” 7, “set” 6, “let” 5, “lay” 4. The choice follows what happens to what is left: if it stays in a place, “put” or “set” (Genesis 2:15); if it is allowed to go on or left in peace, “leave” (“Leave him alone”, 2 Samuel 16:11).

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• leave ×18
• left ×10
• put ×7
• set ×6
• Let ×5
• set it ×5
• lay ×4
• free space ×3
• He did not allow ×2
• he stationed them ×2
• others ×13

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×5
• Leviticus×3
• Numbers×5
• Deuteronomy×3
• Joshua×3
• Judges×5
• 1 Samuel×2
• 2 Samuel×3
• 1 Kings×6
• 2 Kings×2
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Esther×1
• Psalms×3
• Ecclesiastes×6
• Isaiah×4
• Jeremiah×3
• Ezekiel×10
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 2:15

  And YHWH Elohim took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to work it and to keep it.

• Genesis 19:16

  But he lingered; so the men seized his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hand of his two daughters, because of YHWH’s compassion for him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

• Genesis 39:16

  She laid his garment beside her until his lord came home.

• Genesis 42:33

  Then the man, the lord of the land, said to us, ‘By this I will know that you are honest men: leave one of your brothers with me, and take grain for the hunger of your households and go.

• Exodus 16:23

  He said to them, “This is what YHWH has said: ‘Tomorrow is a solemn rest, a holy Sabbath to YHWH. What you will bake, bake; and what you will boil, boil; and all that is left over put aside for yourselves to be kept until morning.’ ”

• Exodus 16:24

  So they put it aside until morning, as Moses had commanded, and it did not stink, and there were no worms in it.

• Exodus 16:33

  Moses said to Aaron, “Take a jar, and put in it a full omer of manna, and set it before YHWH, to be kept throughout your generations.”

• Exodus 16:34

  As YHWH commanded Moses, Aaron set it before the testimony, to be kept.

• Exodus 32:10

  Now let me alone, so that my anger may burn against them and I may consume them; and I will make you into a great nation.”

• Leviticus 7:15

  The flesh of his sacrifice of peace for thanksgiving shall be eaten on the day of his offering; he shall not leave any of it until morning.

• Leviticus 16:23

  Then Aaron shall come into the tent of meeting and take off the linen garments that he put on when he went into the Holy Place, and leave them there.

• Leviticus 24:12

  And they put him in custody, to make the matter clear to them by the mouth of YHWH.

• Numbers 15:34

  And they put him in custody, because it had not been made clear what should be done to him.

• Numbers 17:4

  And you shall leave them in the tent of meeting before the testimony, where I meet with you.

• Numbers 17:7

  And Moses left the staffs before YHWH in the tent of the testimony.

• Numbers 19:9

  And a clean man shall gather up the ash of the cow and deposit it outside the camp in a clean place, and it shall be for the community of the sons of Israel to keep for the water of impurity; it is a sin offering.

• Numbers 32:15

  If you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”

• Deuteronomy 14:28

  At the end of every three years you shall bring out all the tithe of your produce in that year and lay it up within your gates.

• Deuteronomy 26:4

  And the priest shall take the basket from your hand and set it down before the altar of YHWH your Elohim.

• Deuteronomy 26:10

  And now, look, I have brought the first of the fruit of the ground that you have given me, YHWH.” And you shall set it down before YHWH your Elohim and bow down before YHWH your Elohim.

• Joshua 4:3

  and command them, saying, ‘Carry for yourselves from here, from the middle of the Jordan, from the place where the feet of the priests stood firm, twelve stones, and bring them across with you and leave them in the lodging place where you spend the night tonight.’”

• Joshua 4:8

  The sons of Israel did so, just as Joshua had commanded, and carried twelve stones from the middle of the Jordan, just as YHWH had spoken to Joshua, according to the number of the tribes of the sons of Israel; and they brought them across with them to the lodging place and left them there.

• Joshua 6:23

  So the young men, the spies, went in and brought out Rahab, her father, her mother, her brothers, and all that she had; and all her families they brought out, and they left them outside the camp of Israel.

• Judges 2:23

  So YHWH left these nations, not dispossessing them quickly, and he did not give them into the hand of Joshua.

• Judges 3:1

  These are the nations that YHWH left to test Israel by them, all who had not known any of the wars of Canaan,

• Judges 6:18

  Please do not depart from here until I come to you and bring out my offering and set it before you.” He said, “I will stay until you return.”

• Judges 6:20

  The angel of Elohim said to him, “Take the meat and the unleavened bread and set them on this crag, and pour out the broth.” And he did so.

• Judges 16:26

  And Samson said to the boy who was holding him by his hand, “Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, so that I may lean on them.”

• 1 Samuel 6:18

  and the gold mice, by the number of all the cities of the Philistines belonging to the five lords, from fortified city to unwalled village, and as far as the great Abel on which they set down the ark of YHWH; it is there to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.

• 1 Samuel 10:25

  Then Samuel told the people the right of the kingship, and he wrote it in the scroll and laid it before YHWH. And Samuel sent all the people away, each one to his house.

• 2 Samuel 16:11

  David said to Abishai and to all his servants, “Look, my son, who came out from my own body, seeks my life; how much more now this Benjaminite! Leave him alone and let him curse, for YHWH has told him.

• 2 Samuel 16:21

  Ahithophel said to Absalom, “Go in to your father’s concubines, whom he left to keep the house; and all Israel will hear that you have made yourself odious to your father, and the hands of all who are with you will be strengthened.”

• 2 Samuel 20:3

  David came to his house in Jerusalem; and the king took the ten women, the concubines, whom he had left to keep the house, and put them in a house under guard; he provided for them, but to them he did not go in. So they were shut up until the day of their death, in widowhood for life.

• 1 Kings 7:47

  And Solomon left all the utensils unweighed, because of the exceedingly great abundance; the weight of the bronze was not investigated.

• 1 Kings 8:9

  There was nothing in the ark except the two tablets of stone that Moses had placed there at Horeb, where YHWH made a covenant with the sons of Israel when they came out of the land of Egypt.

• 1 Kings 13:29

  The prophet picked up the corpse of the man of Elohim and laid him on the donkey and brought him back; and he came to the city of the old prophet to lament and to bury him.

• 1 Kings 13:30

  He laid his corpse in his own tomb, and they lamented over him, “Alas, my brother!”

• 1 Kings 13:31

  And it happened after he had buried him, that he said to his sons, saying, “When I die, bury me in the tomb in which the man of Elohim is buried; beside his bones lay my bones.

• 1 Kings 19:3

  He saw this, and got up and went for his life; and he came to Beersheba, which belongs to Judah, and left his young man there.

• 2 Kings 17:29

  But each nation was making its own gods, and they put them in the house of the high places that the Samaritans had made, each nation in their cities where they were living.

And 35 more times.