יָע
shovel
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
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Where this word appears
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
1 distinct verse where H3257 appears in the Construct state, across 1 book. Filtered view — show all forms. 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.
Exodus 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 יע centers on the idea of “shovel.” Its earliest occurrence is Exodus 27:3. It appears 9 verses across 6 books of the Hebrew Bible, among its uncommon vocabulary. It clusters with יעה, יעואל and יעיאל under a shared root. Dig into 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3257 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Exodus 2 verses 22%
- 1 Kings 2 verses 22%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 22%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 44%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 22%
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: Shovels 9×
- American Standard Version: Shovels 7×, Also 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Shovels 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Shovels 8×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3257 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3257 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3257 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3257 across 8 tagged occurrences — 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.
- shovel
Word origin
Derived from יעה (yâʻâh) (H3261) — to sweep.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H3257 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/יָּעִ֖ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 7:40 | 2 |
| הַ/יָּעִ֜ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 7:45 | 2 |
| הַ/יָּעִ֣ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Numbers 4:14 | 1 |
| הַ/יָּעִ֤ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 4:16 | 1 |
| הַ/יָּעִ֨ים | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Jeremiah 52:18 | 1 |
| הַ/יָּעִים֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Absolute | Exodus 38:3 | 1 |
| וְ/יָעָי/ו֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 27:3 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3257, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 2 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
