yesod · base, foundation

What it means

yesod (יְסוֹד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “base, foundation”.

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. The lower part of something, on which it rests.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• base ×9
• foundation ×6
• foundations ×4
• founding ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×8
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×2
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Micah×1
• Habakkuk×1

• Exodus 29:12

  and you shall take some of the blood of the bull and put it on the horns of the altar with your finger, and all the rest of the blood you shall pour out at the base of the altar.

• Leviticus 4:7

  The priest shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar of fragrant incense before YHWH that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood of the bull he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 4:18

  He shall put some of the blood on the horns of the altar that is before YHWH that is in the tent of meeting, and all the rest of the blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering that is at the entrance of the tent of meeting.

• Leviticus 4:25

  The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar of burnt offering.

• Leviticus 4:30

  The priest shall take some of its blood with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

• Leviticus 4:34

  The priest shall take some of the blood of the sin offering with his finger and put it on the horns of the altar of burnt offering, and all the rest of its blood he shall pour out at the base of the altar.

• Leviticus 5:9

  He shall sprinkle some of the blood of the sin offering on the wall of the altar, and the rest of the blood shall be drained out at the base of the altar; it is a sin offering.

• Leviticus 8:15

  He slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar; and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar, and consecrated it to make expiation for it.

• Leviticus 9:9

  The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.

• 2 Chronicles 23:5

  and a third will be at the house of the king; and a third at the gate of the Foundation; and all the people will be in the courts of the house of YHWH.

• 2 Chronicles 24:27

  As for his sons, and the abundance of the burden upon him, and the founding of the house of Elohim, they are written in the treatise of the book of the kings. And Amaziah his son reigned in his place.

• Job 4:19

  how much more those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust; they crush them before the moth.

• Job 22:16

  who were seized before their time, whose foundation was poured out as a river?

• Psalms 137:7

  Remember, YHWH, against the sons of Edom the day of Jerusalem, those who said, “Raze it, raze it, down to its foundations.”

• Proverbs 10:25

  When the whirlwind passes, the wicked one is no more, but the righteous one is a foundation forever.

• Lamentations 4:11

  YHWH has spent his fury; he has poured out his burning anger; and he has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured her foundations.

• Ezekiel 13:14

  And I will tear down the wall that you plastered with whitewash, and bring it down to the earth, and its foundation will be laid bare; and it will fall, and you will be consumed in its midst; and you will know that I am YHWH.

• Ezekiel 30:4

  And a sword will come against Egypt, and there will be shuddering in Cush, when the slain fall in Egypt, and they take away her multitude, and her foundations are torn down.

• Micah 1:6

  “And I will make Samaria a heap of ruins in the field, a place for planting a vineyard; and I will pour down into the valley her stones, and her foundations I will lay bare.

• Habakkuk 3:13

  You went out for the salvation of your people, for the salvation of your anointed; you shattered the head of the house of the wicked, laying bare the foundation up to the neck. Selah.