yatsua · bed, couch

What it means

yatsua (יָצוּעַ) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “bed, couch”.

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. Place where one lies down; in marriage, the bed of husband and wife.
2. The rooms built against the temple walls.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• annex ×3
• couch ×3
• bed ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 1 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2

• Genesis 49:4

  Turbulent as water, you will not have preeminence, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch!

• 1 Kings 6:5

  And he built against the wall of the house an annex all around, against the walls of the house all around the temple and the inner sanctuary; and he made side chambers all around.

• 1 Kings 6:6

  The lower annex was five cubits wide, and the middle one six cubits wide, and the third seven cubits wide; for he had put offsets on the house all around on the outside, so as not to fasten into the walls of the house.

• 1 Kings 6:10

  And he built the annex against all the house, five cubits its height, and it fastened onto the house with timbers of cedar.

• 1 Chronicles 5:1

  And the sons of Reuben, the firstborn of Israel (for he was the firstborn; but when he defiled his father’s couch, his birthright was given to the sons of Joseph the son of Israel, and he is not enrolled in the genealogy as firstborn;

• Job 17:13

  If I hope for Sheol as my house, in darkness I spread out my bed;

• Psalms 63:6

  when I remember you upon my bed, in the watches I meditate on you;

• Psalms 132:3

  “I will not enter into the tent of my house; I will not go up onto the bed of my couch;