To add
יָסַףStrong’s H3254yasaph (ya-saph)
Appears in 208 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yasaph is the Hebrew word usually translated “repeated”, “repeat” and “may he add”. It appears in 208 verses of the Old Testament.
“Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me,”
Meaning
- To add, increase, do again(Qal) to add, increase, do again · (Niphal) · (Hiphil)
How it's translated
- and he repeated 22
- i will repeat 15
- may he add 14
- you will repeat 12
- and they repeated 9
- he will repeat 8
- he repeated 5
- it will repeat 5
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 19
- 1 Samuel 17
- Deuteronomy 14
- 2 Samuel 14
- Proverbs 14
- Genesis 13
32 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 4:2And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
- Genesis 4:12When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
- Genesis 8:10And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
- Genesis 8:12And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
- Genesis 8:21And the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man’s sake; for the imagination of man’s heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing living, as I have done.
- Genesis 18:29And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty’s sake.
All 208 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יָסַף yasaph · to add
: again/continue/more[instances] 1) to add, increase, do again 1a) (Qal) to add, increase, do again 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to join, join oneself to 1b2) to be joined, be added to 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to cause to add, increase 1c2) to do more, do again
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “add” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ADD, verb transitive
[Latin addo, from ad and do, to give.]
- To set or put together, join or unite, as one thing or sum to another, in an agreegate; as, add three to four, the sum is seven.
- To unite in idea or consideration; to subjoin.
- To increase number.“Thou shalt add three cities more of refuge” Deuteronomy 19:9
- To augment.“Ye shall not add to the word which I command you” Deuteronomy 4:2
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.