totsaa · end, outlet

What it means

totsaa (תּוֹצָאָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “end, outlet”.

The point where a border ends; also a way out.

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 point where a border stops.
2. What comes out of something, like the springs from which one's life flows.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• ends ×14
• it shall end ×4
• belong the ways out ×1
• come the outgoings ×1
• exits ×1
• limits ×1
• shall end ×1

Where it appears

• Numbers×5
• Joshua×14
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Proverbs×1
• Ezekiel×1

• Numbers 34:4

  And the border shall turn for you south of the ascent of Akrabbim and pass on to Zin, and it shall end south of Kadesh-barnea; and it shall go out to Hazar-addar and pass on to Azmon.

• Numbers 34:5

  And the border shall turn from Azmon to the brook of Egypt, and it shall end at the sea.

• Numbers 34:8

  from Mount Hor you shall draw a line to the entrance of Hamath, and the border shall end at Zedad;

• Numbers 34:9

  and the border shall go out to Ziphron, and it shall end at Hazar-enan; this shall be your north border.

• Numbers 34:12

  and the border shall go down to the Jordan, and it shall end at the Salt Sea. This shall be your land by its borders all around.”

• Joshua 15:4

  and it passed along to Azmon, and went out to the Brook of Egypt, and the ends of the border were at the sea. This shall be your south border.

• Joshua 15:7

  and the border went up to Debir from the Valley of Achor, and northward turned to Gilgal, which is opposite the Ascent of Adummim, which is south of the brook; and the border passed along to the waters of En-shemesh, and its ends were at En-rogel;

• Joshua 15:11

  and the border went out to the slope of Ekron to the north, and the border bent to Shikkeron, and passed along to Mount Baalah, and went out to Jabneel, and the ends of the border were at the sea.

• Joshua 16:3

  and it went down westward to the territory of the Japhletites, as far as the territory of Lower Beth-horon and as far as Gezer, and its ends were at the sea.

• Joshua 16:8

  From Tappuah the border went westward to the Brook of Kanah, and its ends were at the sea. This is the inheritance of the tribe of the sons of Ephraim according to their families,

• Joshua 17:9

  And the border went down to the Brook of Kanah, south of the brook. These cities belonged to Ephraim among the cities of Manasseh. And the border of Manasseh was on the north of the brook, and its ends were at the sea.

• Joshua 17:18

  but the hill country shall be yours; for it is forest, and you will clear it, and its ends shall be yours; for you will dispossess the Canaanite, though he has iron chariots, though he is strong.”

• Joshua 18:12

  And their border on the north side was from the Jordan, and the border went up to the slope of Jericho on the north, and went up through the hill country westward, and its ends were at the wilderness of Beth-aven.

• Joshua 18:14

  And the border bent and turned on the west side southward from the hill that lies over against Beth-horon on the south, and its ends were at Kiriath-baal (that is Kiriath-jearim), a city of the sons of Judah. This was the west side.

• Joshua 18:19

  and the border passed along to the slope of Beth-hoglah on the north; and the ends of the border were at the north bay of the Salt Sea, at the mouth of the Jordan, to the south. This was the south border.

• Joshua 19:14

  and the border turned around it on the north to Hannathon, and its ends were at the Valley of Iphtah-el;

• Joshua 19:22

  And the border touched Tabor, Shahazimah, and Beth-shemesh, and the ends of their border were at the Jordan: sixteen cities with their villages.

• Joshua 19:29

  and the border turned back to Ramah, and as far as the fortified city of Tyre; and the border turned back to Hosah, and its ends were at the sea, by the region of Achzib;

• Joshua 19:33

  And their border was from Heleph, from the oak in Zaanannim, and Adami-nekeb and Jabneel, as far as Lakkum; and its ends were at the Jordan;

• 1 Chronicles 5:16

  And they lived in Gilead, in Bashan and in its towns, and in all the pasturelands of Sharon to their limits.

• Psalms 68:20

  The El is for us an El of salvations, and to YHWH Adonai belong the ways out from death.

• Proverbs 4:23

  More than all that is guarded, guard your heart, for from it come the outgoings of life.

• Ezekiel 48:30

  And these are the exits of the city: on the side of the north, four thousand five hundred by measure.