Hebrew

To lay

יָצַעStrong’s H3331

yatsa (ya-tsa)

Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yatsa is the Hebrew word usually translated “it was spread as a bed”, “spread as a bed” and “it is spread as a bed”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.

“And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.”

Esther 4:3 KJV

Meaning

To spread out, make a bed(Hiphil) to lay, spread out · (Hophal) to be laid, be spread out

How it's translated

it was spread as a bed 1
and i will spread as a bed 1
it is spread as a bed 1
he spreads as a bed 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most

Isaiah 2
Esther 1
Psalms 1

3 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

יָצַע yatsa · to lay

1) to spread out, make a bed 1a) (Hiphil) to lay, spread out 1b) (Hophal) to be laid, be spread out

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “lay” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

LAY, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive laid. [Latin loco, whence locus, Eng. ley or lea. The primary sense is to send or throw; hence this word is the Latin lego, legare, differently applied; Gr. to lie down.]

Literally, to throw down; hence, to put or place; applied to things broad or long, and in this respect differing from set.“He laid his robe from him” Jonah 3:6“A stone was brought and laid on the mouth of the den” Daniel 6:17
To beat down; to prostrate.
To settle; to fix and keep from rising.
To place in order; to dispose with regularity in building; as, to lay bricks or stones in constructing walls.

All definitions and other forms of “lay”

To spread on a surface; as, to lay plaster or paint.
To spread or set; as, to lay snares.
To calm; to appease; to still; to allay.
To quiet; to still; to restrain from walking; as, to lay the devil.
To spread and set in order; to prepare; as, to lay a table for dinner.
To place in the earth for growth.
To place at hazard; to wage; to stake; as, to lay a crown or an eagle; to lay a wager.
To bring forth; to exclude; as, to lay eggs.
To add; to join.“Woe to them that join house to house, that lay field to field” Isaiah 5:8
To put; to apply.
To asses; to charge; to impose; as, to lay a tax on land; to lay a duty on salt.
To charge; to impute; as, to lay blame on one; to lay want of prudence to one's charge.
To impose, as evil, burden, or punishment.“The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. 3” Isaiah 53:6
To enjoin as a duty; as, to lay commands on one.
To exhibit; to present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county.
To prostrate; to slay.
To depress and lose sight of, by sailing or departing from; as, to lay the land; a seaman's phrase.
To station; to set; as, to lay an ambush.
To contrive; to scheme; to plan.“LAY apart all filthiness” James 1:21
To lay aside, to put off or away; not to retain.“Let us lay aside every weight, and the sin that doth so easily beset us” Hebrews 12:1
To discontinue; as, to lay aside the use of any thing.
To lay by, to reserve for future use.“Let every one of you lay by him in store, as God hath prospered him” 1 Corinthians 16:2
To put away; to dismiss.
To put off.“And she arose and went away, and laid by her veil” Genesis 38:19
To lay down, to deposit, as a pledge, equivalent or satisfaction; to resign.“I lay down my life for the sheep” John 10:15
To give up; to resign; to quit or relinquish; as, to lay down an office or commission.
To quit; to surrender the use of; as, to lay down one's arms.
To offer or advance; as, to lay down a proposition or principle.“I will both lay me down in peace and sleep -” Psalms 4:8
To lay out, to expend; as, to lay out money, or sums of money.
To display; to discover.
To plan; to dispose in order the several parts; as, to lay out a garden.
To dress in grave clothes and place in a decent posture; as, to lay out a corpse.
To exert; as, to lay out all one's strength.
To lay to, to charge upon; to impute.
To apply with vigor.
To attack or harass. obsolete
To check the motion of a ship, and cause her to be stationary.
To lay up, to store; to treasure; to reposit for future use.“LAY up for yourselves treasures in heaven” Matthew 6:20
To confine to the bed or chamber.

LAY, verb intransitive

To bring or produce eggs.
To contrive; to form a scheme. [Unusual.]“The sword of him that layeth at him cannot hold” Job 41:26
To lay out, to purpose; to intend. he lays out to make a journey.
To take measures.

LAY, noun

That which lies or is laid; a row; a stratum; a layer; one rank in a series reckoned upward; as a lay of wood.
A bet; a wager. [Little used.]
Station; rank. [Not used.]

LAY, noun

[Latin locus. See lay the verb. The words which signify place, are from verbs which express setting or laying. It is written also ley, and lea, but less properly.]

LAY, noun

[Gr. to sound. Latin laudo, plaudo.]

LAY, adjective

[Latin laicus, Gr. from people.]

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.