yatsag · set, place

What it means

yatsag (יָצַג) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “set, place”.

Leave in position.

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 station something or someone somewhere.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• set ×10
• Let me leave ×1
• am placing ×1
• be left behind ×1
• establish ×1
• he has made me ×1
• presented them ×1

Where it appears

• Genesis×4
• Exodus×1
• Deuteronomy×1
• Judges×3
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Jeremiah×1
• Hosea×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 30:38

  He set the rods that he had peeled in the channels, in the watering troughs, where the flocks came to drink, in front of the flocks; and they mated when they came to drink.

• Genesis 33:15

  Esau said, “Let me leave, please, with you some of the people who are with me.” But he said, “Why this? Let me find favor in the eyes of my lord.”

• Genesis 43:9

  I will be surety for him; from my hand you may require him. If I do not bring him to you and set him before you, then I will have sinned against you for all time.

• Genesis 47:2

  From among his brothers he took five men and presented them before Pharaoh.

• Exodus 10:24

  Then Pharaoh called to Moses and said, “Go, serve YHWH; only let your flocks and your herds be left behind; even your little ones may go with you.”

• Deuteronomy 28:56

  The woman who is the tenderest among you and the most refined, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicacy and tenderness, will look with an evil eye on the husband of her bosom and on her son and on her daughter,

• Judges 6:37

  look, I am placing a fleece of wool on the threshing floor; if there is dew on the fleece alone, and on all the land dryness, then I will know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”

• Judges 7:5

  He brought the people down to the water, and YHWH said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps with his tongue from the water, as a dog laps, you shall set apart, and everyone who bends down on his knees to drink.”

• Judges 8:27

  Gideon made it into an ephod and set it up in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel prostituted themselves after it there, and it became for Gideon and for his house a trap.

• 1 Samuel 5:2

  And the Philistines took the ark of Elohim and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it beside Dagon.

• 2 Samuel 6:17

  They brought in the ark of YHWH and set it in its place, inside the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered up burnt offerings before YHWH, and peace offerings.

• 1 Chronicles 16:1

  They brought in the ark of Elohim and set it inside the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Elohim.

• Job 17:6

  And he has made me a byword of peoples, and spitting in the face I am.

• Jeremiah 51:34

  “He has devoured me, he has crushed me, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon; he has set me down as an empty vessel; he has swallowed me like the sea monster; he has filled his belly with my delicacies; he has driven me out.

• Hosea 2:3

  or else I will strip her naked and set her out as on the day she was born, and make her like the wilderness, and leave her like a land that is dry, and kill her with thirst.

• Amos 5:15

  Hate evil and love good, and establish justice in the gate; perhaps YHWH, Elohim Tsevaot, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.