yatsa · go out, bring out

What it means

yatsa (יָצָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “go out, bring out”.

Go out, come out. In the causative form, "make go out", "bring out", "lead out", "produce".

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 go out of a place.
2. To set out somewhere, or go out to war.
3. To spring up, be born, come from something.
4. To lead someone out: "I led you out of Egypt".

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Go out, come out. In the causative form, “cause to go out”: bring out, lead out, produce.

• To go out of a place; a river that goes out Genesis 2:10Exodus 13:3
• “Brought you out of the land of Egypt”: the deliverance Exodus 20:2
• To produce, to bring forth; to come from someone's body Genesis 1:12Genesis 15:4
• “Come in” and “go out”: daily life, or leading the people Deuteronomy 28:6Numbers 27:17

Historical and cultural background

The going out from Egypt is remembered again and again with this verb: “Remember this day on which you came out of Egypt” (Exodus 13:3).

How we translate it

“Went out” 231 times, “go out” 179, “came out” 104, “brought” 81, “come out” 69, “brought out” 56, “bring out” 48. For the causative form this edition uses “bring out” (“who brought you out of the land of Egypt”, Exodus 20:2) or “lead out”; with the earth and plants, “brought forth”.

How it is translated

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

• went out ×231
• go out ×179
• came out ×104
• brought ×81
• come out ×69
• brought out ×56
• bring out ×48
• going out ×40
• Out ×30
• goes out ×28
• others ×201

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×79
• Exodus×94
• Leviticus×38
• Numbers×70
• Deuteronomy×66
• Joshua×53
• Judges×54
• Ruth×4
• 1 Samuel×46
• 2 Samuel×46
• 1 Kings×42
• 2 Kings×52
• 1 Chronicles×24
• 2 Chronicles×49
• Ezra×5
• Nehemiah×10
• Esther×9
• Job×28
• Psalms×35
• Proverbs×11
• Ecclesiastes×5
• Song of Songs×4
• Isaiah×41
• Jeremiah×70
• Lamentations×3
• Ezekiel×74
• Daniel×7
• Hosea×2
• Joel×2
• Amos×4
• Jonah×1
• Micah×8
• Nahum×1
• Habakkuk×5
• Haggai×2
• Zechariah×22
• Malachi×1

• Genesis 1:12

  And the earth brought forth vegetation: plants yielding seed according to its kind, and trees bearing fruit that has its seed in it, according to its kind. And Elohim saw that it was good.

• Genesis 1:24

  And Elohim said, “Let the earth bring forth living beings according to their kind: livestock and creeping things and animals of the earth according to their kind.” And it was so.

• Genesis 2:10

  And a river went out from Eden to water the garden, and from there it divided and became four branches.

• Genesis 4:16

  And Cain went out from the presence of YHWH and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.

• Genesis 8:7

  and he sent out the raven, and it went going out and returning until the waters had dried up from the earth.

• Genesis 8:16

  “Go out of the ark, you and your wife and your sons and the wives of your sons with you.

• Genesis 8:17

  Every animal that is with you, of all flesh, birds and livestock and every creeping thing that creeps on the earth, bring out with you, and let them swarm on the earth and be fruitful and multiply on the earth.”

• Genesis 8:18

  And Noah went out, and his sons and his wife and the wives of his sons with him.

• Genesis 8:19

  Every animal, every creeping thing, and every bird, everything that moves on the earth, by their families went out of the ark.

• Genesis 9:10

  and with every living being that is with you, the birds, the livestock, and every animal of the earth with you, of all that came out of the ark, to every animal of the earth.

• Genesis 9:18

  And the sons of Noah who went out of the ark were Shem, Ham, and Japheth; and Ham was the father of Canaan.

• Genesis 10:11

  From that land he went out to Assyria and built Nineveh, Rehoboth-Ir, Calah,

• Genesis 10:14

  the Pathrusim, the Casluhim (from where the Philistines came out), and the Caphtorim.

• Genesis 11:31

  Terah took Abram his son, Lot son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, the wife of Abram his son, and they went out with them from Ur of the Chaldeans to go to the land of Canaan; and they came as far as Haran and settled there.

• Genesis 12:4

  So Abram went, just as YHWH had told him, and Lot went with him. Abram was seventy-five years old when he went out from Haran.

• Genesis 12:5

  Abram took Sarai his wife, Lot the son of his brother, all their possessions that they had gathered, and the persons that they had acquired in Haran, and they set out to go to the land of Canaan. And they came to the land of Canaan.

• Genesis 14:8

  Then the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar) went out and drew up battle lines against them in the Valley of Siddim,

• Genesis 14:17

  After he returned from defeating Chedorlaomer and the kings who were with him, the king of Sodom went out to meet him at the Valley of Shaveh (that is, the Valley of the King).

• Genesis 14:18

  And Melchizedek king of Salem brought out bread and wine; he was priest of El Elyon.

• Genesis 15:4

  And look, the word of YHWH came to him, saying, “This one will not be your heir; but one who will come out from your own body, he will be your heir.”

• Genesis 15:5

  He brought him outside and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to count them.” And he said to him, “So will your offspring be.”

• Genesis 15:7

  And he said to him, “I am YHWH who brought you out from Ur of the Chaldeans to give you this land to possess it.”

• Genesis 15:14

  But also the nation that they serve I will judge, and afterward they will come out with great possessions.

• Genesis 17:6

  I will make you fruitful exceedingly, and I will make you into nations, and kings will come from you.

• Genesis 19:5

  They called to Lot and said to him, “Where are the men who came to you tonight? Bring them out to us, so that we may know them.”

• Genesis 19:6

  Lot went out to them at the entrance, and shut the door behind him,

• Genesis 19:8

  Look, I have two daughters who have not known a man; let me bring them out to you, and do to them as is good in your eyes; only to these men do not do anything, for that is why they have come under the shadow of my roof.”

• Genesis 19:12

  Then the men said to Lot, “Whom else do you have here? A son-in-law, your sons, your daughters, and anyone you have in the city, bring them out of the place,

• Genesis 19:14

  So Lot went out and spoke to his sons-in-law, who were to marry his daughters, and said, “Get up, get out of this place, for YHWH is about to destroy the city.” But he seemed to be joking in the eyes of his sons-in-law.

• Genesis 19:16

  But he lingered; so the men seized his hand, his wife’s hand, and the hand of his two daughters, because of YHWH’s compassion for him, and they brought him out and set him outside the city.

• Genesis 19:17

  When they had brought them outside, he said, “Escape for your life! Do not look behind you, and do not stop anywhere in the plain; escape to the mountain, lest you be swept away.”

• Genesis 19:23

  The sun had risen over the earth when Lot came to Zoar.

• Genesis 24:5

  The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman will not be willing to come after me to this land. Must I then take back your son to the land from which you came?”

• Genesis 24:11

  He made the camels kneel outside the city by the well of water at the time of evening, the time the women who draw water go out.

• Genesis 24:13

  Look, I am standing by the spring of water, and the daughters of the men of the city are coming out to draw water.

• Genesis 24:15

  It happened, before he had finished speaking, that, look, Rebekah was coming out, who was born to Bethuel son of Milcah, the wife of Nahor, Abraham’s brother, with her jar on her shoulder.

• Genesis 24:43

  look, I am standing by the spring of water. Let it be that the young woman who comes out to draw, and to whom I say, “Please let me drink a little water from your jar,”

• Genesis 24:45

  Before I had finished speaking in my heart, look, Rebekah came out with her jar on her shoulder, and she went down to the spring and drew. I said to her, ‘Please let me drink.’

• Genesis 24:50

  Laban and Bethuel answered and said, “The matter has come from YHWH; we cannot speak to you bad or good.

• Genesis 24:53

  The servant brought out objects of silver and objects of gold, and garments, and gave them to Rebekah; and costly gifts he gave to her brother and to her mother.

And 1027 more times.