yashat · hold out, extend

What it means

yashat (יָשַׁט) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hold out, extend”.

To extend, to hold out toward someone; said of the scepter that the king holds out to the one he receives.

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 reach something out toward someone.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• held out ×2
• holds out ×1

Where it appears

• Esther 4:11

  “All the king’s servants and the people of the king’s provinces know that any man or woman who goes in to the king, into the inner court, who has not been called, his law is one: to put him to death, except the one to whom the king holds out the golden scepter, and he will live. But I have not been called to go in to the king these thirty days.”

• Esther 5:2

  And it happened, when the king saw Esther the queen standing in the court, that she won favor in his eyes; and the king held out to Esther the golden scepter that was in his hand, and Esther came near and touched the tip of the scepter.

• Esther 8:4

  And the king held out to Esther the golden scepter, and Esther rose and stood before the king,