Bed
יָצוּעַStrong’s H3326yatsua (ya-tsu-a)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yatsua is the Hebrew word usually translated “beds my”, “extension” and “couch my”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.”
Meaning
- Couch, bed
- Flat surface, a storey in a building
How it's translated
- beds my 3
- the extension 2
- couch my 1
- an extension 1
- beds of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 3
- Psalms 2
- Genesis 1
- 1 Chronicles 1
- Job 1
5 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 6:5And against the wall of the house he built chambers round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle: and he made chambers round about:
- 1 Kings 6:6The nethermost chamber was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad: for without in the wall of the house he made narrowed rests round about, that the beams should not be fastened in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:10And then he built chambers against all the house, five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
- 1 Chronicles 5:1Now the sons of Reuben the firstborn of Israel, (for he was the firstborn; but, forasmuch as he defiled his father’s bed, his birthright was given unto the sons of Joseph the son of Israel: and the genealogy is not to be reckoned after the birthright.
- Job 17:13If I wait, the grave is mine house: I have made my bed in the darkness.
- Psalms 63:6When I remember thee upon my bed, and meditate on thee in the night watches.
Hebrew dictionary
יָצוּעַ yatsua · bed
couch, bed
יָצִיעַ yatsiya · floor
flat surface, a storey in a building
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “bed” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
BED, noun
[The sense is a lay or spread, from laying or setting.]
- A place or an article of furniture to sleep and take rest on; in modern times, and among civilized men, a sack or tick filled with feathers or wool; but a bed may be made of straw or any other materials.
- Lodging; a convenient place for sleep.
- Marriage; matrimonial connection.
- A plat or level piece of ground in a garden, usually a little raised above the adjoining ground.
All definitions and other forms of “bed”
- The channel of a river, or that part in which the water usually flows.
- Any hollow place, especially in the arts; a hollow place, in which any thing rests; as the bed of a mortar.
- A layer; a stratum; an extended mass of any thing, whether upon the earth or within it; as a bed of sulphur; a bed of sand or clay.
- Pain, torment. Revelation 2:22Isaiah 57:7Hebrews 13:4
BED, verb transitive
To place in a bed
- To go to bed with. [Unusual.]
- To make partaker of the bed
- To plant and inclose or cover; to set or lay and inclose; as, to bed the roots of a plant in soft mold.
- To lay in any hollow place, surrounded or inclosed; as to bed a stone.
- To lay in a place of rest or security, covered, surrounded or inclosed; as a fish bedded in sand, or under a bank.
- To lay in a stratum; to stratify; to lay in order or flat; as bedded clay, bedded hairs
BED, verb transitive
To cohabit; to use the same bed
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.