יְסַף
to add
‘to add’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓
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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Hophal
- The passive counterpart of the Hiphil (“he was caused to…”).
Form
- Perfect
- A completed action or state — Hebrew marks aspect (completeness) more than strict tense (“he wrote”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3255 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.
Daniel 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.
“to add” is the headline sense of the Hebrew verb יסף (yᵉçaph). A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Daniel. Its lone occurrence is Daniel 4:36. Catalogued under 2 senses, its meaning is not single-sense. See the sense tree, 1-verse concordance, and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3255 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
- Daniel 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: Was added 1×
- American Standard Version: Was added unto me 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Was added 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Was added 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3255 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3255 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3255 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3255 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses 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.
- to add
- (Hophal) to be added
Word origin
[ יְסַף ] vb. add;— Hoph. Dn 4:33
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יסף (yâçaph) (H3254) — to add.
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.
יָסַף
- , Hif. הוֹסִיף to heap up, to add (with על). Snh. XI, 3 להוֹסִיף על דברי וכ׳ thus adding to the words of the Scribes (against Deut. IV, 2). Ib. 88ᵇ ויש בו להו׳ when there is a possibility to add. Ib. ואם ה׳ גורע and if he did add, he diminishes (violates the law). Ib. 29ᵃ המוֹסִיף, v. גָּרַע I. Tosef. Sabb. VI (VII), 17 והאומר הוֹסִיפוּ על השולחן (not ואומר) and who (from superstition) says, Add (put one more) to the table; a. fr.—Yalk. Lev. 559 מוֹסַפְנִי על וכ׳ (Sifra Metsora beg. מוסיף אני) I will add to what thou saidst. e.g. Deuteronomy 4:2
- , Hithpa. הִתּוֹסַף to be added; to be added to, increase, wax. Mekh. Bo. s. 16; Yalk. Ex. 217 והשני נ׳ לו and the second name was added to the first (without abrogating the first). Ex. R. s. 7, beg. נ׳ לו עוד וכ׳ two additional years (of imprisonment) were given him. Sabb. 152ᵃ ת"ח … חכמתן מִתּוֹסֶפֶת עליהן Ms. M. (ed. חכמה נִיתּוֹסֶפֶת בהן) when scholars grow old, their wisdom grows with their age; ib. טפשותן מתוספת וכ׳, v. טִפְּשׁוּת.
יְסַף
- Af. אוֹסִיף, אוֹסֵף same, to add, increase; to do again. Targ. Deut. I, 11.—Targ. Gen. VIII, 10; a. fr.—Sabb. 116ᵇ אנא … אלא לאוֹסָפֵי וכ׳ Ms. M. (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) I have not come to diminish from but to add to the law of Moses. Y. Ber. IV, 7ᶜ אוֹסְפוּן עליה add thereto.—Part. pass. מוֹסַף, f. מוֹסְפָא. Kidd. 20ᵃ והא מ׳ ואזלא but this (the debt on interest) is continually growing; a. fr.
- to be added. Targ. Gen. XLIX, 26; a. fr.—Ber. 28ᵃ אִתּוֹסְפוּ כמה ספסלי many forms had to be added (to accommodate the hearers). Ib. א׳ ד׳ מאהוכ׳ four hundred forms were added; a. e.
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.
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