yatsak · pour, cast

What it means

yatsak (יָצַק) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “pour, cast”.

Pour, pour out; also cast metal in a mold. By extension, set firmly, become hard.

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 pour a liquid over something or into something.
2. To melt metal and pour it into a mold.
3. Firm and compact, like something made of metal cast in one piece.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To pour, to pour out a liquid; and, with metals, to melt them and pour them into a mold. BDB adds that what is cast becomes solid, hence the sense of being firm. From the same root is יְצֻקָה, ‘casting’.

• Pouring oil on a stone or a head Genesis 28:18Leviticus 8:121 Samuel 10:1
• Casting metal objects Exodus 25:121 Kings 7:46
• “I will pour my spirit” Isaiah 44:3
• Pouring water on another’s hands 2 Kings 3:11
• Being firm Job 11:15Job 41:24

Historical and cultural background

To consecrate Aaron and to anoint a king, oil was poured on the head (Leviticus 8:12; 1 Samuel 10:1; 2 Kings 9:3).

How we translate it

“Pour” with liquids (“poured” 17 times, “pour” 13) and “cast” with metals (“cast” 10, “he cast” 4). In Job, where what is cast is what is hard, it is rendered “firm” (4). In 2 Kings 3:11 the image “poured water on the hands of Elijah” is kept, with a note, and in 2 Kings 4:41, of the stew, “Pour out {some} for the people”.

How it is translated

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

• poured ×17
• pour ×13
• cast ×10
• firm ×4
• he cast ×4
• they set down ×1
• was pouring ×1
• were for casting ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×2
• Exodus×8
• Leviticus×8
• Numbers×1
• Joshua×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×2
• 1 Kings×6
• 2 Kings×7
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Job×7
• Psalms×2
• Isaiah×2
• Ezekiel×1

• Genesis 28:18

  Jacob rose early in the morning, took the stone that he had put at his head, set it up as a standing stone, and poured oil on its top.

• Genesis 35:14

  Jacob set up a standing stone in the place where he had spoken with him, a standing stone of stone; he poured out a libation on it and poured oil on it.

• Exodus 25:12

  You shall cast for it four rings of gold and put them on its four feet, two rings on the one side of it and two rings on the other side of it.

• Exodus 26:37

  You shall make for the screen five pillars of acacia and overlay them with gold; their hooks shall be of gold, and you shall cast for them five bases of bronze.

• Exodus 29:7

  Then you shall take the oil of anointing and pour it on his head and anoint him.

• Exodus 36:36

  And he made for it four pillars of acacia, and overlaid them with gold; their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four bases of silver.

• Exodus 37:3

  And he cast for it four rings of gold on its four feet, and two rings on its one side, and two rings on its second side.

• Exodus 37:13

  And he cast for it four rings of gold and put the rings on the four corners that were at its four legs.

• Exodus 38:5

  And he cast four rings on the four corners of the grating of bronze, as holders for the poles.

• Exodus 38:27

  And the hundred talents of silver were for casting the bases of the sanctuary and the bases of the veil; a hundred bases for the hundred talents, a talent per base.

• Leviticus 2:1

  When a person presents a grain offering to YHWH, his offering shall be of fine flour; he shall pour oil on it and put frankincense on it.

• Leviticus 2:6

  You shall break it in pieces and pour oil on it; it is a grain offering.

• Leviticus 8:12

  He poured some of the oil of anointing on the head of Aaron and anointed him to consecrate him.

• Leviticus 8:15

  He slaughtered it, and Moses took the blood and put it on the horns of the altar all around with his finger, and purified the altar; and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar, and consecrated it to make expiation for it.

• Leviticus 9:9

  The sons of Aaron presented the blood to him, and he dipped his finger in the blood and put it on the horns of the altar, and the rest of the blood he poured out at the base of the altar.

• Leviticus 14:15

  The priest shall take some of the log of oil and pour it on the priest’s own left palm.

• Leviticus 14:26

  The priest shall pour some of the oil on the priest’s own left palm,

• Leviticus 21:10

  And the priest who is high among his brothers, on whose head the anointing oil has been poured and who has been ordained to wear the garments, shall not let the hair of his head hang loose and shall not tear his garments.

• Numbers 5:15

  then the man shall bring his wife to the priest, and he shall bring her offering for her, a tenth of an ephah of barley flour; he shall not pour oil on it and not put frankincense on it, for it is a grain offering of jealousy, a grain offering of memorial, bringing to remembrance iniquity.

• Joshua 7:23

  They took them from the middle of the tent and brought them to Joshua and to all the sons of Israel, and they poured them out before YHWH.

• 1 Samuel 10:1

  And Samuel took the flask of oil and poured it on his head and kissed him and said, “Is it not that YHWH has anointed you as leader over his inheritance?

• 2 Samuel 13:9

  She took the pan and poured it out before him, but he refused to eat. Amnon said, “Send everyone out from me.” And everyone went out from him.

• 2 Samuel 15:24

  And there was Zadok too, and all the Levites with him, carrying the ark of the covenant of Elohim; and they set down the ark of Elohim, and Abiathar went up, until all the people had finished crossing over from the city.

• 1 Kings 7:16

  And two capitals he made to put on the heads of the pillars, of cast bronze; five cubits was the height of the one capital, and five cubits the height of the second capital.

• 1 Kings 7:24

  And gourds below its rim all around surrounded it, ten to the cubit, encircling the Sea all around; the gourds were in two rows, cast in its casting.

• 1 Kings 7:33

  And the work of the wheels was like the work of the wheel of a chariot: their axles, their rims, their spokes, and their hubs, all was cast.

• 1 Kings 7:46

  In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the thick ground, between Succoth and Zarethan.

• 1 Kings 18:34

  And he said, “Fill four jars with water and pour it on the burnt offering and on the wood.” And he said, “Do it a second time”; and they did it a second time. And he said, “Do it a third time”; and they did it a third time.

• 1 Kings 22:35

  The battle rose that day, and the king was propped up in the chariot facing Aram; and he died in the evening, and the blood of the wound poured out into the bottom of the chariot.

• 2 Kings 3:11

  Jehoshaphat said, “Is there not here a prophet of YHWH, that we may consult YHWH through him?” One of the servants of the king of Israel answered and said, “Elisha son of Shaphat is here, who poured water on the hands of Elijah.”

• 2 Kings 4:4

  Then go in and shut the door behind you and behind your sons, and pour into all these vessels, and set aside each one that is full.”

• 2 Kings 4:5

  She went from him and shut the door behind her and behind her sons; they were bringing vessels to her, and she was pouring.

• 2 Kings 4:40

  They poured out some for the men to eat. And it happened, as they were eating from the stew, that they cried out and said, “Death is in the pot, man of Elohim!” And they could not eat it.

• 2 Kings 4:41

  He said, “Then get flour.” He threw it into the pot and said, “Pour out some for the people, and let them eat.” And there was no harmful thing in the pot.

• 2 Kings 9:3

  Then take the flask of oil and pour it on his head and say, ‘Thus says YHWH, “I have anointed you king over Israel.”’ Then open the door and flee, and do not wait.”

• 2 Kings 9:6

  He got up and went into the house, and he poured the oil on his head and said to him, “Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, ‘I have anointed you king over the people of YHWH, over Israel.

• 2 Chronicles 4:2

  He made the Sea of cast metal, ten cubits from its rim to its rim, round all around, and five cubits its height, and a line of thirty cubits went around it all around.

• 2 Chronicles 4:3

  Under it were figures of oxen all around, encircling it, ten to a cubit, surrounding the Sea all around; the oxen were in two rows, cast in its casting.

• 2 Chronicles 4:17

  In the plain of the Jordan the king cast them, in the thickness of the ground, between Succoth and Zeredathah.

• Job 11:15

  then you will lift up your face without defect, and you will be firm and will not fear;

And 11 more times.