יָצוּעַ
bed
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
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
- 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
- Singular
- One.
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 6 times (55%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct 4 times (36%)
- Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct 1 time (9%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 11 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3326 appears — 8 distinct verses across 5 books. 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.
Genesis 1 verse
1 Kings 3 verses
- 1 Kings 6:5 יצוע יָצִ֨יעַ֙ n c ms n c ms Against the wall of the house he built stories round about, against the walls of the house round about, both of the temple and of the oracle; and he made side-chambers round about.
- 1 Kings 6:6 ה/יצוע הַ/יָּצִ֨יעַ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms The nethermost story was five cubits broad, and the middle was six cubits broad, and the third was seven cubits broad; for on the outside he made offsets [in the wall] of the house round about, that [the beams] should not have hold in the walls of the house.
- 1 Kings 6:10 ה/יצוע הַ/יָּצִ֨יעַ֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms ptcl def.art + n c ms He built the stories against all the house, each five cubits high: and they rested on the house with timber of cedar.
1 Chronicles 1 verse
Job 1 verse
Psalms 2 verses
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.
At its core, יצוע (yâtsûwaʻ) means “bed.” Scripture first uses it in Genesis 49:4. Spanning 8 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses concentrate in 1 Kings (38% of all occurrences). From the same root come יצע and מצע. Dig into 8-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3326 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 →
- 8
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 8 distinct verses.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,210
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,210 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 8 occurrences in the concordance →
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 8 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 4 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 38%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 1 verse · 13%
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).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Bed 2×, Chambers 2×
- American Standard Version†: Stories 2×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Bed 4×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Addition 3×, Bed 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3326 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 4 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3326 across 7† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 5 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 H3326 across 8† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3326 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 4 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 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.
- couch, bed
Word origin
I. n.[m.] couch, bed (poet.);—sf. יְצוּעִי Gn 49:4; pl. cstr. יְצוּעֵי 1 Ch 5:1; sf. יְצוּעָ֑י Jb 17:13 + 2 times (+ 1 K 6:5, 6, 10 Kt, v. יָצִיעַ); couch, bed, of wedlock or concubinage, Gn 49:4 (J), hence 1 Ch 5:1; in gen. ψ 63:7, עֶרֶשׂ יְצוּעָ֑י 132:3; בַּחֹשֶׁךְ רִפַּדְתִּי יְצוּעָ֑י Jb 17:13 (‖ אִם־אֲקַוֶּה שְׁאוֹל בֵּיתִי; cf. ψ 139:8).
I. n.m. 1 K 6:10 only Qr, properly flat surface, only of lower projecting story of temple, יָצִו֯עַ 1 K 6:5, 10; v 6 read הַצֵּלָע the side-chamber, as 𝔊 Bö§ 658 StaZAW 1883, 136, v. also v 5, 8 Ez 41:5, 6.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יצע (yatsaʻ) (H3331) — to spread out.
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.
יָצוּעַ
- spreading, bed-mattress, couch. Gen. R. s. 98 (play on פ̇ח̇ז̇, Gen. XLIX, 4) פ̇רקת עול ח̇ללת יְצוּעִי זֹע וכ׳ thou hast thrown off the yoke (restraint), thou hast desecrated my couch, thy passion within thee was agitated. Sabb. 55ᵇ (ref. to Gen. l. c.) א"ת יְצוּעִי אלא יְצוּעַיי (missing in Ms. M., v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note) read not ‘my couch’ but ‘my couches’.—Pl. יְצוּעִים, יְצוּעִין. Gen. R. l. c. קלקל את הי׳ he disgraced his father’s couches. Tosef. B. Bath. III, 1 היְצִיעִין ed. Zuck. (Var. היְצָעִים); Y. ib. IV, 14ᶜ bot. יְצוּ׳ the mattresses in the press (for the laborers or watchmen). Tosef. ib. IV, 1 יְצִי׳; Y. ib. V, beg. 15ᶜ יְצוּ׳ the mattresses on board of ships. e.g. Genesis 49:4
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 9 distinct written forms H3326 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| ה/יצוע | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:6 | 2 |
| יְצוּעָֽ/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Job 17:13 | 2 |
| הַ/יָּצִ֨יעַ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:6 | 1 |
| הַ/יָּצִ֨יעַ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:10 | 1 |
| יְצוּעִ֥/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Construct | Genesis 49:4 | 1 |
| יְצוּעֵ֣י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | 1 Chronicles 5:1 | 1 |
| יְצוּעָ֑/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 63:6 | 1 |
| יָצִ֨יעַ֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:5 | 1 |
| יצוע | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3326, 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.
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Shares the same root
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Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 8 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 8 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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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.
