yatsav · take one's stand

What it means

yatsav (יָצַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “take one's stand”.

Stand firm in a place, present oneself.

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 stand before someone, or stand firm.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

To take one’s stand in a place and remain there: to present oneself before someone, to stand firm in front of another. It is used above all in the reflexive form.

• Presenting oneself before YHWH Job 1:61 Samuel 10:19Joshua 24:1
• “Stand firm and see the salvation” Exodus 14:132 Chronicles 20:171 Samuel 12:16
• “No man will stand before you” Deuteronomy 7:24Joshua 1:5
• YHWH comes and stands beside someone 1 Samuel 3:10Exodus 34:5
• Stationing oneself to watch Exodus 2:4Habakkuk 2:1

How we translate it

According to the context: ‘present oneself’ (“present yourselves” 5 times, “presented themselves” 3), “stand” when one holds his ground before an enemy (“no man will stand before you”, Deuteronomy 7:24), and “Stand firm” in Exodus 14:13; “stationed herself” when someone stays to watch (Exodus 2:4). In 2 Chronicles 20:17 two verbs go together: “present yourselves, stand and see”.

How it is translated

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

• Stand ×26
• present yourselves ×5
• stood ×4
• presented themselves ×3
• present themselves ×2
• station yourself ×2
• present himself ×1
• presented himself ×1
• presenting themselves ×1
• remaining ×1
• others ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×6
• Numbers×4
• Deuteronomy×5
• Joshua×2
• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×6
• 2 Samuel×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Job×6
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×2
• Jeremiah×2
• Habakkuk×1
• Zechariah×1

• Exodus 2:4

  His sister stationed herself at a distance to find out what would be done to him.

• Exodus 8:20

  YHWH said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and station yourself before Pharaoh; look, he is going out to the water. And say to him, ‘Thus says YHWH: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• Exodus 9:13

  YHWH said to Moses, “Rise early in the morning and station yourself before Pharaoh and say to him, ‘Thus says YHWH, the Elohim of the Hebrews: “Let my people go, that they may serve me.

• 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.

• Exodus 19:17

  Moses brought the people out of the camp to meet Elohim, and they took their stand at the foot of the mountain.

• Exodus 34:5

  And YHWH descended in the cloud and stood with him there, and proclaimed the name of YHWH.

• Numbers 11:16

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Gather for me seventy men of the elders of Israel, whom you know to be the elders of the people and their supervisors; and bring them to the tent of meeting, and let them take their stand there with you.

• Numbers 22:22

  But the anger of Elohim burned because he was going, and the angel of YHWH took his stand in the road as an opponent to him. Now he was riding on his donkey, and his two young men were with him.

• Numbers 23:3

  And Balaam said to Balak, “Stand beside your burnt offering, and I will go; perhaps YHWH will come to meet me, and whatever word he shows me I will tell you.” And he went to a bare height.

• Numbers 23:15

  And he said to Balak, “Stand here beside your burnt offering, while I meet him there.”

• Deuteronomy 7:24

  He will deliver their kings into your hand, and you will make their name perish from under the heavens; no man will stand before you until you have destroyed them.

• Deuteronomy 9:2

  a people great and tall, the sons of the Anakim, whom you know, and of whom you have heard it said, “Who can stand before the sons of Anak?”

• Deuteronomy 11:25

  No man will stand before you; the dread of you and the terror of you YHWH your Elohim will put on the face of all the land on which you tread, as he has spoken to you.

• Deuteronomy 31:14

  And YHWH said to Moses, “Look, your days have drawn near for dying. Call Joshua and present yourselves in the tent of meeting, so that I may commission him.” And Moses and Joshua went and presented themselves in the tent of meeting.

• Joshua 1:5

  No man shall stand before you all the days of your life. Just as I was with Moses, I will be with you; I will not let you go or abandon you.

• Joshua 24:1

  And Joshua gathered all the tribes of Israel to Shechem, and summoned the elders of Israel, its heads, its judges, and its supervisors; and they presented themselves before Elohim.

• Judges 20:2

  And the leading men of all the people, all the tribes of Israel, took their stand in the assembly of the people of Elohim, four hundred thousand foot soldiers who drew the sword.

• 1 Samuel 3:10

  And YHWH came and stood there and called as at other times, “Samuel! Samuel!” And Samuel said, “Speak, for your servant is listening.”

• 1 Samuel 10:19

  But you today have despised your Elohim, who himself saves you from all your calamities and your distresses, and you have said to him, ‘Set a king over us.’ So now, present yourselves before YHWH by your tribes and by your thousands.”

• 1 Samuel 10:23

  And they ran and took him from there, and he stood among the people, and he was taller than all the people from his shoulders upward.

• 1 Samuel 12:7

  And now, present yourselves, and I will enter into judgment with you before YHWH concerning all the righteous acts of YHWH that he did with you and with your fathers.

• 1 Samuel 12:16

  Even now, present yourselves and see this great thing that YHWH is doing before your eyes.

• 1 Samuel 17:16

  The Philistine came near morning and evening, and presented himself forty days.

• 2 Samuel 18:13

  Or if I had dealt falsely against my life —and nothing is hidden from the king— you would have stood aloof.”

• 2 Samuel 18:30

  The king said, “Turn aside; stand here.” So he turned aside and stood.

• 2 Samuel 21:5

  They said to the king, “The man who consumed us and who planned against us, so that we have been destroyed from remaining in all the territory of Israel:

• 2 Samuel 23:12

  But he took his stand in the middle of the plot and delivered it and struck the Philistines; and YHWH brought about a great salvation.

• 1 Chronicles 11:14

  But they took their stand in the middle of the plot and delivered it, and they struck the Philistines; and YHWH saved them with a great salvation.

• 2 Chronicles 11:13

  The priests and the Levites who were in all Israel presented themselves to him from all their territory.

• 2 Chronicles 20:6

  and said, “YHWH, Elohim of our fathers, are you not Elohim in the heavens? And you rule over all the kingdoms of the nations; in your hand are power and might, and there is no one able to stand firm against you.

• 2 Chronicles 20:17

  It is not for you to fight in this; present yourselves, stand and see the salvation of YHWH with you, Judah and Jerusalem. Do not be afraid and do not be dismayed; tomorrow go out before them, and YHWH will be with you.’”

• Job 1:6

  Now there was a day when the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before YHWH, and the Satan also came among them.

• Job 2:1

  Now there was a day when the sons of Elohim came to present themselves before YHWH, and the Satan also came among them to present himself before YHWH.

• Job 33:5

  If you can, answer me; set your words in order before me; take your stand.

• Job 38:14

  It is changed like clay under a seal, and things stand out like a garment.

• Job 41:10

  No one is so cruel that he would rouse it; and who is he that can take his stand before me?

• Psalms 2:2

  The kings of the earth take their stand, and the dignitaries conspire together against YHWH and against his anointed:

• Psalms 5:5

  The boastful will not take their stand before your eyes; you hate all who work wickedness.

• Psalms 36:4

  Wickedness he plots on his bed; he takes his stand on a way not good; evil he does not reject.

• Psalms 94:16

  Who will rise up for me against evildoers? Who will take his stand for me against the workers of wickedness?

And 8 more times.