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יָצַב

to stand

‘to stand’ is one of 2 main senses fuller range ↓

H3320 Strong's Hebrew
yâtsab Transliteration
/yaw-tsab'/ Pronunciation
Usage in the Hebrew Bible 48 appearances

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About this entry

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יצב — transliterated yâtsab — is a Hebrew verb carrying the sense “to stand.” Its English rendering has broadened — “stand” classically, “station yourself” (unfoldingWord Literal Text) in modern versions; see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 45 verses in 15 books, it ranks among the moderately common words of the Hebrew Bible. Its earliest occurrence is Exodus 2:4. BDB distinguishes 2 senses for it. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.

Gloss history

Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship

Strong's · 1890
present selves
Modern gloss
to stand
Strong's 1890 sometimes compressed multiple senses — or homonymous roots — under one number, and used 19th-century English phrasing that no longer carries the same connotation. The modern gloss reflects current BDB scholarship; open the Lexicon Entry tab for the full sense breakdown. Download share card

About this word

Strong's H3320 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 →

45
distinct verses
The word appears in 45 distinct verses.
15 / 39
OT books
The word appears in 15 of 39 Old Testament books.
Exodus 2:4
first appearance
The earliest occurrence is in Exodus 2:4.
Zechariah 6:5
last appearance
The latest occurrence is in Zechariah 6:5.
#767
by frequency
Top 1000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 767 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).

View all 45 occurrences in the concordance →


Most concentrated in

By section of the Old Testament

  • Pentateuch 14 · 31%
  • Historical 17 · 38%
  • Wisdom 10 · 22%
  • Prophets 4 · 9%

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 45 distinct verses.

  • Prophets (Nevi'im) 17 verses · 38%
  • Torah (Pentateuch) 14 verses · 31%
  • Writings (Ketuvim) 14 verses · 31%

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: Stand 6×, Present 4×, Stood 4×
  • American Standard Version: Stand 6×, Present 4×, Be able to stand 3×
  • Berean Standard Bible: Stand 5×, Present yourselves 4×, Stood 4×
  • unfoldingWord Literal Text: Station yourself 5×, Station yourselves 4×, And 3×

King James Version Public Domain

Renders H3320 across 48 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Stand” 6×
  • “Present” 4×
  • “Stood” 4×
  • “Be able to stand” 3×
  • “Presented” 3×
  • “Set” 2×

Plus 26 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

American Standard Version Public Domain

Renders H3320 across 48 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Stand” 6×
  • “Present” 4×
  • “Be able to stand” 3×
  • “Presented” 3×
  • “Stood” 3×
  • “Set” 2×
  • “They stood” 2×

Plus 25 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.

Berean Standard Bible Public Domain

Renders H3320 across 47 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Stand” 5×
  • “Present yourselves” 4×
  • “Stood” 4×
  • “Present themselves” 2×
  • “Presented themselves” 2×
  • “Stay” 2×
  • “Take your positions” 2×
  • “Will be able to stand” 2×

Plus 24 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.

unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0

Renders H3320 across 52 tagged occurrences — most commonly:

  • “Station yourself” 5×
  • “Station yourselves” 4×
  • “And” 3×
  • “He stationed himself” 3×
  • “Present themselves” 2×
  • “Presented themselves” 2×
  • “Stand” 2×
  • “Stationed himself” 2×
  • “They stationed themselves” 2×
  • “Will” 2×
  • “Will stand” 2×

Plus 23 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.


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.

  1. to place, set, stand, set or station oneself, present oneself
  2. (Hithpael) to station oneself, take one's stand, stand, present oneself, stand with someone

Word origin

[ יָצַב ] vb. only Hithp. set or station oneself, take one's stand

— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.

Origin: a primitive root

Part of speech: Verb TWOT: 894


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.

יָצַב

  • (b. h.) to stand, be erect.—Denom. יְצִיבָה.—V. נָצַב.
    • to place one’s self; to be firm. Cant. R. to I, 1 (ref. to Prov. XXII, 29) מִתְיַצְּבִים בתורה they are firm in the Law. Pesik. R. s. 6 (ref. to Prov. l. c.) בל יִתְיַיצָּב לפני פרעה וכ׳ he will not place himself (praying) before Pharaoh, the benighted (v. חָשׁוּךְ); Cant. R. l. c. לפני מלכי תורה יתיצב he will be placed before (ranked as the foremost of) the kings of the Law; Koh. R. to I, 1 לפני מלאכים יתי׳ he will be ranked before angels; a. e. e.g. Proverbs 22:29

יְצַב

  • ; Pa. יַצֵּב to establish. [Dan. VII, 19 to ascertain.] Targ. I Chr. IV, 23.—V. נְצַב. e.g. Daniel 7:19

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.


Forms in the corpus

The 38 distinct written forms H3320 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that stem’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
יִתְיַצֵּ֥ב Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 7:24 4
וַ/יִּֽתְיַצְּב֖וּ Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Deuteronomy 31:14 3
לְ/הִתְיַצֵּ֖ב Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct Job 1:6 3
הִתְיַצְּב֣וּ Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 Samuel 12:16 2
וַ/יִּתְיַצֵּ֖ב Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 Samuel 10:23 2
מֵֽ/הִתְיַצֵּ֖ב Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct 2 Samuel 21:5 2
הִֽתְיַצְב֗וּ Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Exodus 14:13 1
הִֽתְיַצְּב֛וּ Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 Samuel 12:7 1
הִֽתְיַצְּב֥וּ Verb, Hithpael, Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural 2 Chronicles 11:13 1
הִֽתְיַצְּבוּ֙ Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 Samuel 10:19 1
הִתְיַצֵּ֣ב Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 Samuel 18:30 1
הִתְיַצֵּ֥ב Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Numbers 23:15 1
הִתְיַצֵּב֙ Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Jeremiah 46:14 1
הִתְיַצֵּב֮ Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Numbers 23:3 1
הִתְיַצָּֽבָ/ה Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Job 33:5 1
וְ/אֶֽתְיַצְּבָ֖ה Verb, Hithpael, Cohortative, 1st Person, Common, Singular Habakkuk 2:1 1
וְ/הִֽתְיַצְּב֖וּ Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Jeremiah 46:4 1
וְ/הִֽתְיַצְּב֛וּ Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Plural Deuteronomy 31:14 1
וְ/הִֽתְיַצְּב֥וּ Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Perfect, 3rd Person, Common, Plural Numbers 11:16 1
וְ/הִתְיַצֵּ֖ב Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Exodus 9:13 1
וְ/הִתְיַצֵּב֙ Verb, Hithpael, Imperative, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular Exodus 8:20 1
וְ֝/יִֽתְיַצְּב֗וּ Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Job 38:14 1
וַ/יִּֽתְיַצְּב֞וּ Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Judges 20:2 1
וַ/יִּֽתְיַצְּב֤וּ Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural 1 Chronicles 11:14 1
וַ/יִּתְיַצֵּ֞ב Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Numbers 22:22 1
וַ/יִּתְיַצֵּ֤ב Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 Samuel 23:12 1
וַ/יִּתְיַצֵּ֥ב Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Exodus 34:5 1
וַ/יִּתְיַצַּ֔ב Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular 1 Samuel 3:10 1
וַ/תֵּתַצַּ֥ב Verb, Hithpael, Sequential Imperfect, 3rd Person, Feminine, Singular Exodus 2:4 1
יִ֝תְיַצֵּב Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Proverbs 22:29 1
יִ֥תְיַצְּב֨וּ Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Psalms 2:2 1
יִ֭תְיַצֵּב Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Psalms 36:4 1
יִתְיַצְּב֣וּ Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Plural Psalms 5:5 1
יִתְיַצֵּ֔ב Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Deuteronomy 9:2 1
יִתְיַצָּ֑ב Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Proverbs 22:29 1
יִתְיַצָּֽב Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 3rd Person, Masculine, Singular Job 41:10 1
לְ/הִתְיַצֵּֽב Verb, Hithpael, Infinitive Construct 2 Chronicles 20:6 1
תִּתְיַצֵּ֥ב Verb, Hithpael, Imperfect, 2nd Person, Masculine, Singular 2 Samuel 18:13 1

Same root — word family

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Septuagint verse parallels

This word appears in 43 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 45 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.

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