(Gate of) Yeshanah
יָשָׁןStrong’s H3465yashan (ya-shan)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yashan is the Hebrew word usually translated “old harvest”, “old” and “jeshanah”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And ye shall sow the eighth year, and eat yet of old fruit until the ninth year; until her fruits come in ye shall eat of the old store.”
Meaning
- Old, store, storage
- Old, store, storage
How it's translated
- old harvest 3
- old 2
- and old harvest 1
- the jeshanah 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 2
- Nehemiah 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Isaiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:10And ye shall eat old store, and bring forth the old because of the new.
- Nehemiah 3:6Moreover the old gate repaired Jehoiada the son of Paseah, and Meshullam the son of Besodeiah; they laid the beams thereof, and set up the doors thereof, and the locks thereof, and the bars thereof.
- Song of Solomon 7:13The mandrakes give a smell, and at our gates are all manner of pleasant fruits, new and old, which I have laid up for thee, O my beloved.
- Isaiah 22:11Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
Hebrew dictionary
יָשָׁן yashan · (Gate of) Yeshanah
old, store, storage Also named: ye.sha.nah (יְשָׁנָה "(Gate of )Yeshanah" H3466H)
יָשָׁן yashan · old
old, store, storage
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “old” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OLD, adjective
- Advanced far in years or life; having lived beyond the middle period, or rather towards the end of life, or towards the end of the ordinary term of living; applied to animals or plants; as an old man; an old age; an old camel or horse; an old tree.“Abraham was seventy five years old when he departed from Haran” Genesis 12:4
- Having been long made or used; decayed by time; as an old garment; an old house.
- Being of long continuance; begun long ago; as an old acquaintance.
- Having been long made; not new or fresh; as old wine.
All definitions
- Being of a former year's growth; not of the last crop; as old wheat; old hay.
- Ancient; that existed in former ages; as the old inhabitants of Britain; the old Romans.
- Of any duration whatever; as a year old; seven years old How old art thou?
- subsisting before something else.
- Long practiced. he is grown old in vice.
- That has been long cultivated; as old land; an old farm; opposed to new land, land lately cleared and cultivated.
- More than enough; great.
- In vulgar language, crafty; cunning.
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.