yasad · found, establish

What it means

yasad (יָסַד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “found, establish”.

Found, lay the foundations; also appoint, establish.

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 lay the foundations of something on which it will be raised.
2. To agree together to act, almost always against someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• founded ×19
• foundation ×7
• was founded ×5
• established ×3
• conspire ×2
• I will lay your foundations ×1
• found ×1
• founds ×1
• laid the foundations ×1
• lay the base ×1
• others ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Joshua×1
• 1 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×4
• Esther×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×10
• Proverbs×1
• Song of Songs×1
• Isaiah×9
• Amos×1
• Habakkuk×1
• Haggai×1
• Zechariah×3

• Exodus 9:18

  Look, about this time tomorrow I will rain down very heavy hail, such as has never been like it in Egypt from the day it was founded until now.

• Joshua 6:26

  Joshua made them swear at that time, saying, “Cursed before YHWH be the man who rises up and builds this city, Jericho. At the cost of his firstborn he shall lay its foundation, and at the cost of his youngest he shall set up its gates.”

• 1 Kings 5:17

  And the king commanded, and they quarried great stones, costly stones, to lay the foundation of the house with hewn stones.

• 1 Kings 6:37

  In the fourth year the house of YHWH was founded, in the month of Ziv;

• 1 Kings 7:10

  And the foundation was of costly stones, great stones, stones of ten cubits and stones of eight cubits.

• 1 Kings 16:34

  In his days Hiel of Bethel built Jericho. At the cost of Abiram his firstborn he laid its foundation, and at the cost of Segub his youngest he set up its gates, according to the word of YHWH that he spoke through Joshua son of Nun.

• 1 Chronicles 9:22

  All of them who were chosen as gatekeepers at the thresholds were two hundred and twelve. They were enrolled in the genealogy in their villages; David and Samuel the seer established them in their office of trust.

• 2 Chronicles 3:3

  These are the measures with which Solomon laid the foundations for building the house of Elohim: the length, in cubits of the old measure, was sixty cubits, and the width twenty cubits.

• 2 Chronicles 31:7

  In the third month they began to lay the base of the heaps, and in the seventh month they finished.

• Ezra 3:6

  From the first day of the seventh month they began to offer burnt offerings to YHWH, but the temple of YHWH had not been founded.

• Ezra 3:10

  And when the builders founded the temple of YHWH, they set the priests in their vestments with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise YHWH under the direction of David king of Israel.

• Ezra 3:11

  And they answered one another praising and giving thanks to YHWH: “For he is good, for his loyal love is forever over Israel.” And all the people shouted with a great shout, praising YHWH, because the house of YHWH had been founded.

• Ezra 3:12

  But many of the priests and the Levites and the heads of the fathers’ houses, the elders who had seen the first house, when this house was founded before their eyes, were weeping with a loud voice, and many were raising their voice with shouting, with joy.

• Esther 1:8

  And the drinking was according to the law: no one compelled; for the king had so established for every steward of his house, that they should do according to the will of each one.

• Job 38:4

  Where were you when I founded the earth? Declare it, if you know understanding.

• Psalms 2:2

  The kings of the earth take their stand, and the dignitaries conspire together against YHWH and against his anointed:

• Psalms 8:2

  From the mouth of children and of nursing infants you have founded strength because of your adversaries, to put an end to the enemy and the one who takes vengeance.

• Psalms 24:2

  For he founded it upon the seas, and upon the rivers he established it.

• Psalms 31:13

  For I have heard the whispering of many, terror on every side, when they conspire together against me; they plot to take my soul.

• Psalms 78:69

  And he built like the heights his sanctuary, like the earth he founded forever.

• Psalms 89:11

  Yours are the heavens, yours also the earth; the world and what fills it, you founded them.

• Psalms 102:25

  Of old you founded the earth, and the work of your hands are the heavens.

• Psalms 104:5

  He founded the earth on its bases; it will not be shaken forever and ever.

• Psalms 104:8

  The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place that you founded for them.

• Psalms 119:152

  Long ago I have known from your testimonies that forever you have founded them.

• Proverbs 3:19

  YHWH by wisdom founded the earth; he established the heavens by insight.

• Song of Songs 5:15

  His legs are pillars of alabaster set on bases of pure gold; his appearance is like Lebanon, choice as the cedars.

• Isaiah 14:32

  And what will one answer the messengers of the nation? That YHWH has founded Zion, and in it the afflicted of his people will take refuge.

• Isaiah 23:13

  Look, the land of the Chaldeans: this people was not; Assyria founded it for desert creatures; they raised their siege towers, they stripped its palaces; he made it a ruin.

• Isaiah 28:16

  Therefore thus says Adonai YHWH: “Look, I have laid as a foundation in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a precious cornerstone, a foundation well founded; the one who believes will not hurry.

• Isaiah 44:28

  who says of Cyrus, ‘My shepherd, and all my desire he will fulfill,’ saying of Jerusalem, ‘She will be rebuilt,’ and of the temple, ‘Your foundation will be laid.’”

• Isaiah 48:13

  Also my hand founded the earth, and my right hand spread out the heavens; I call to them, they stand together.

• Isaiah 51:13

  And you have forgotten YHWH your Maker, who stretches out the heavens and founds the earth, and you dread continually, all the day, before the fury of the oppressor, when he sets himself to destroy? And where is the fury of the oppressor?

• Isaiah 51:16

  And I have put my words in your mouth, and in the shadow of my hand I have covered you, to plant the heavens and to found the earth, and to say to Zion, ‘You are my people.’”

• Isaiah 54:11

  “Afflicted one, storm-tossed, not comforted: look, I am setting your stones on antimony, and I will lay your foundations on sapphires.

• Amos 9:6

  the one who builds in the heavens his upper chambers, and has founded his arch on the earth; the one who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the face of the earth: YHWH is his name.

• Habakkuk 1:12

  Are you not from of old, YHWH, my Elohim, my Holy One? We will not die. YHWH, for judgment you have appointed him, and, Rock, for reproving you have established him.

• Haggai 2:18

  Set, please, your heart from this day onward, from the twenty- fourth day of the ninth month, from the day that the temple of YHWH was founded; set your heart.

• Zechariah 4:9

  “The hands of Zerubbabel have founded this house, and his hands will finish it; and you will know that YHWH Tsevaot has sent me to you.

• Zechariah 8:9

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Let your hands be strong, you who hear in these days these words from the mouth of the prophets, who spoke on the day that the house of YHWH Tsevaot was founded, the temple, to be built.

And 2 more times.