יְסֻד
foundation
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3246 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun יסד centers on the idea of “foundation.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Ezra dominates its distribution — 1 of 1 verses. A true hapax — its single appearance is Ezra 7:9. Sharing its root, it stands alongside יסד, יסוד and מוסד. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3246 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Began 1×
- American Standard Version: Began 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Had begun 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Beginning of 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3246 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3246 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3246 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3246 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- a beginning, foundation, that being founded
Word origin
n.[m.] foundation, beginning, Ezr 7:9 יְסֻד הַמַּעֲלָה, but read rather, c. 𝔊, יָסַד (הוּא = Ezra subj.), v. Ry.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יסד (yâçad) (H3245) — to found.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יָסַד
- v. סַד) [to join, fasten; denom. יְסוֹד, whence יָסַד] to found, establish. Tanḥ. B’resh. 1 ובה … וי׳ ארץ and with it (the Torah) he stretched the heavens and established the earth. Meg. 3ᵃ; Sabb. 104ᵃ; Succ. 44ᵃ וחזרו וִיסָדוּם and they reintroduced them. Ib. 20ᵃ, v. עֶזְרָא; a. fr. e.g. Genesis 1:1
- 1. to establish; to join in between. Y. Erub. V, 22ᶜ שער היסוד ששם היו מְיַיסְּדִין וכ׳ the Eastern Gate was named the Foundation Gate, because there they (in their meetings) established the decisions of the Law; a. e.—Part. pass. מְיוּסָּד. Ib. שער התווך שהוא מי׳ בין וכ׳ it was named the Middle Gate because it was fastened in between two gates; a. e.
- 2. to rebuild (a ruin). Tosef. B. Mets. XI, 4 לא יאמר לו הריני מייסד עמך מכנגד וכ׳ (not עמו) he has no right to say, I will help thee rebuild the party wall from where my (higher situated) ground commences and upward, אלא מייסד עמו וכ׳ but he must help him build from the bottom (of the neighbor’s ground) &c.; Y. ib. X, beg. 12ᶜ; (B. Bath. 6ᵇ מסייע מלמטה). [Cant. R. to I, 2 שהרי חבירו בא ליַסֵּד עליו כן the next following sentence comes to found upon it a base (thus proving that the reading is דּוֹדֶיךָ and not דּוֹדַיִךְ). Some eds. read לימד; Ab. Zar. II, 5 חבירו מלמד; Yalk. Cant. 981 מוכיח.]
- to be established. Tanḥ. l. c. העולם לא נ׳ וכ׳ the world has been founded on nothing but the Law.
יְסַד
- Targ. Ps. LXXVIII, 69; a. e.
- same. Ib. CIV, 5.
- , Ittof. אִתּוֹסָד to be fastened, supported, founded. Targ. Job. XLI, 15, sq.—Targ. Ps. LXXXVII, 1.—Targ. II Chr. XXXI, 7 לאִתּוֹסָדָא (ed. Lag. לאִתְיַסְּרָא).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3246, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
- יסוד yᵉçôwd H3247 foundation
- מוסד mûwçâd H4143 foundation
- מוסד môwçâd H4144 foundation
- מיסדה mᵉyuççâdâh H4328 foundation
- מסד maççad H4527 foundation
- סוד çôwd H5475 council
Derived from this word
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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