To pour
יָצַקStrong’s H3332yatsaq (ya-tsaq)
Appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yatsaq is the Hebrew word usually translated “poured”, “cast” and “pour”. It appears in 48 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.”
Meaning
- To pour, flow, cast, pour out(Qal) · (Hiphil) to pour, pour out · (Hophal)
How it's translated
- and he poured 5
- and he cast 4
- cast 4
- and you will pour 3
- he poured 3
- and you will cast 2
- and he will pour 2
- he cast them 2
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 8
- Leviticus 8
- 2 Kings 7
- Job 6
- 1 Kings 5
- 2 Chronicles 3
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 35:14And Jacob set up a pillar in the place where he talked with him, even a pillar of stone: and he poured a drink offering thereon, and he poured oil thereon.
- Exodus 25:12And thou shalt cast four rings of gold for it, and put them in the four corners thereof; and two rings shall be in the one side of it, and two rings in the other side of it.
- Exodus 26:37And thou shalt make for the hanging five pillars of shittim wood, and overlay them with gold, and their hooks shall be of gold: and thou shalt cast five sockets of brass for them.
- Exodus 29:7Then shalt thou take the anointing oil, and pour it upon his head, and anoint him.
- Exodus 36:36And he made thereunto four pillars of shittim wood, and overlaid them with gold: their hooks were of gold; and he cast for them four sockets of silver.
- Exodus 37:3And he cast for it four rings of gold, to be set by the four corners of it; even two rings upon the one side of it, and two rings upon the other side of it.
All 48 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יָצַק yatsaq · to pour
: pour 1) to pour, flow, cast, pour out 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to pour, pour out 1a2) to cast 1a3) to flow 1b) (Hiphil) to pour, pour out 1c) (Hophal) 1c1) to be poured 1c2) cast, molten (participle) 1c3) being firmly established (participle)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “pour” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
POUR, verb transitive
- To throw, as a fluid in a stream, either out of a vessel, or into it; as, to pour water from a pail, or out of a pail; to pour wine into a decanter. pour is appropriately but not exclusively applied to fluids, and signifies merely to cast or throw, and this sense is modified by out, from, in, into, against, on, upon, under, etc.“I will pour out my Spirit upon all flesh” Joel 2:28
- To emit; to send forth in a stream or continued succession.
- To send forth; as, to pour out words, prayers or sighs; to pour out the heart or soul. Psalms 62:8
- To throw in profusion or with overwhelming force.“I will shortly pour out my fury on thee” Ezekiel 7:8
All definitions and other forms of “pour”
POUR, verb intransitive
To flow; to issue forth in a stream, or continued succession of parts; to move or rush, as a current. The torrent pours down from the mountain, or along the steep descent.
- To rush in a crowd or continued procession.
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.