yasaf · add, do again

What it means

yasaf (יָסַף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “add, do again”.

Add; do again, keep doing.

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 put more on top of what is already there, to make it grow.
2. To do again what had already been done.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Add, increase; very often, next to another verb, “do again” or “keep doing”. BDB: to add or augment (often adverbially: to continue to do a thing). From this root comes the name Joseph.

• To add: “May YHWH add to me another son” Genesis 30:24
• To do again: “I will never again curse” Genesis 8:21
• In the oath “So may YHWH do to me, and so may he add” Ruth 1:171 Samuel 25:22
• Adding a fifth of the value Leviticus 27:13

Historical and cultural background

In Leviticus 27 whoever wishes to redeem what he consecrated “shall add a fifth of it to its valuation”.

How we translate it

It depends on the construction. On its own, “add” (46 times). Before another verb, “again” (85), “more” (11) or “longer” (10). In the oath formula it is kept literally: “so may he add”.

How it is translated

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

• again ×85
• add ×46
• more ×11
• longer ×10
• added ×5
• continue ×5
• adding ×4
• adds ×4
• increases ×4
• you have added ×4
• others ×31

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×14
• Exodus×9
• Leviticus×11
• Numbers×9
• Deuteronomy×15
• Joshua×2
• Judges×13
• Ruth×1
• 1 Samuel×17
• 2 Samuel×14
• 1 Kings×7
• 2 Kings×6
• 1 Chronicles×5
• 2 Chronicles×6
• Ezra×1
• Esther×1
• Job×11
• Psalms×8
• Proverbs×14
• Ecclesiastes×5
• Isaiah×19
• Jeremiah×3
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×3
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×3
• Joel×1
• Amos×4
• Jonah×1
• Nahum×1
• Zephaniah×1

• Genesis 4:2

  And again she gave birth to his brother Abel. And Abel became a keeper of flocks, and Cain was a worker of the ground.

• Genesis 4:12

  When you work the ground, it will no longer give its strength to you; a wanderer and a drifter you will be on the earth.”

• Genesis 8:10

  And he waited another seven days, and again he sent out the dove from the ark.

• Genesis 8:12

  And he waited yet another seven days, and sent out the dove, and she did not return to him again.

• Genesis 8:21

  And YHWH smelled the pleasing aroma, and YHWH said in his heart, “I will never again curse the ground because of the human being, for the inclination of the heart of the human being is evil from his youth; and I will never again strike every living thing, as I have done.

• Genesis 18:29

  He spoke to him yet again and said, “Perhaps forty will be found there.” He said, “I will not do it for the sake of the forty.”

• Genesis 25:1

  Abraham again took a wife, whose name was Keturah.

• Genesis 30:24

  She called his name Joseph, saying, “May YHWH add to me another son.”

• Genesis 37:5

  Joseph dreamed a dream and told it to his brothers, and they hated him even more.

• Genesis 37:8

  His brothers said to him, “Will you indeed reign over us? Or will you indeed rule over us?” So they hated him even more because of his dreams and because of his words.

• Genesis 38:5

  Yet again she bore a son and called his name Shelah. He was at Chezib when she bore him.

• Genesis 38:26

  Judah recognized them and said, “She is more righteous than I, because I did not give her to Shelah my son.” And he did not again know her.

• Genesis 44:23

  But you said to your servants, ‘Unless your youngest brother comes down with you, you will not see my face again.’

• Exodus 1:10

  Come, let us deal shrewdly with them, or they will multiply, and if war breaks out, they too will join those who hate us and fight against us and go up from the land.”

• Exodus 5:7

  “You shall no longer give straw to the people to make bricks as before; let them go and gather straw for themselves.

• Exodus 8:29

  Moses said, “Look, I am going out from you, and I will pray to YHWH, and the swarms of flies will depart from Pharaoh, from his servants, and from his people tomorrow. Only let Pharaoh not again deal deceitfully by not letting the people go to sacrifice to YHWH.”

• Exodus 9:28

  Pray to YHWH, for there has been enough of thunder of Elohim and hail; and I will let you go, and you will not have to stay any longer.”

• Exodus 9:34

  But when Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunder had ceased, he sinned again and made his heart insensitive, he and his servants.

• Exodus 10:28

  Pharaoh said to him, “Get away from me! Take care never again to see my face, for on the day you see my face you will die.”

• Exodus 10:29

  Moses said, “As you have said; I will not see your face again.”

• Exodus 11:6

  There will be a great outcry in all the land of Egypt, such as there has never been and such as there will never be again.

• Exodus 14:13

  Moses said to the people, “Do not be afraid. Stand firm and see the salvation of YHWH, which he will work for you today; for the Egyptians whom you see today you will never see them again.

• Leviticus 5:16

  And what he has sinned against the holy thing he shall restore, and he shall add a fifth to it and give it to the priest; and the priest shall make expiation for him with the ram of the guilt offering, and he will be forgiven.

• Leviticus 6:5

  or anything about which he swore falsely; he shall repay it in full and add a fifth of it to it; he shall give it to the one to whom it belongs on the day of his guilt offering.

• Leviticus 19:25

  And in the fifth year you may eat its fruit, that it may increase its yield for you. I am YHWH your Elohim.

• Leviticus 22:14

  And if a man eats a holy thing by mistake, he shall add a fifth of it to it and give the holy thing to the priest.

• Leviticus 26:18

  And if after these things you do not listen to me, I will go on to correct you seven times more for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:21

  And if you walk with me in opposition and are not willing to listen to me, I will go on to bring on you blows seven times more according to your sins.

• Leviticus 27:13

  And if he does wish to redeem it, he shall add a fifth of it to its valuation.

• Leviticus 27:15

  And if the one who consecrates it redeems his house, he shall add a fifth of the silver of its valuation to it, and it shall be his.

• Leviticus 27:19

  And if the one who consecrates the field does redeem it, he shall add a fifth of the silver of its valuation to it, and it shall stand for him.

• Leviticus 27:27

  And if it is among the unclean beasts, he shall ransom it according to its valuation and add a fifth of it to it; and if it is not redeemed, it shall be sold according to its valuation.

• Leviticus 27:31

  And if a man does wish to redeem any of his tithe, he shall add a fifth of it to it.

• Numbers 5:7

  they shall confess their sin that they have committed; and he shall restore in full what he is guilty of, and add to it a fifth of it, and give it to the one against whom he became guilty.

• Numbers 11:25

  And YHWH came down in the cloud and spoke to him, and took some of the spirit that was on him and put it on the seventy men, the elders; and when the spirit rested on them, they prophesied, but they did not continue.

• Numbers 22:15

  And Balak sent again princes, more numerous and more honored than these.

• Numbers 22:19

  And now, please stay here, you also, tonight, and I will know what more YHWH will speak to me.”

• Numbers 22:25

  And the donkey saw the angel of YHWH and pressed herself against the wall and pressed Balaam’s foot against the wall; and he struck her again.

• Numbers 22:26

  And the angel of YHWH went ahead again and stood in a narrow place, where there was no way to turn to the right or to the left.

• Numbers 32:15

  If you turn away from following him, he will again leave them in the wilderness, and you will destroy all this people.”

And 169 more times.