יַצִּיב
true
‘true’ is one of 3 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
- Adjective
- A word that describes or qualifies a noun.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute 3 times (60%)
- Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute 2 times (40%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 5 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Every verse where H3330 appears — 5 distinct verses 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 5 verses
- Daniel 2:8 יַצִּיב֙ adj Adjective ms The king answered, I know of a certainty that you would gain time, because you see the thing is gone from me.
- Daniel 2:45 וְ/יַצִּ֥יב conj + Adjective Adjective ms Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what shall happen hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation of it sure.
- Daniel 3:24 יַצִּיבָ֖א adj Adjective fs Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste: he spoke and said to his counselors, Didn't we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered the king, True, O king.
- Daniel 6:12 יַצִּיבָ֧א adj Adjective fs Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king's interdict: Haven't you signed an interdict, that every man who shall make petition to any god or man within thirty days, save to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn't alter.
- Daniel 7:16 וְ/יַצִּיבָ֥א conj + Adjective Adjective fs I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.
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, יציב (yatstsîyb) means “true.” A scarce word — 5 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). Scripture first uses it in Daniel 2:8. Ranging over 3 senses, it is not a single-sense word. Each statement above links to its evidence; the full detail follows below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3330 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 →
- 5
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 5 distinct verses.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,337
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,337 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 5 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 5 verses 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 5 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 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: Certainty 1×, Is certain 1×, Is true 1×
- American Standard Version: Certainty 1×, Is certain 1×, Is true 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Certainly 1×, Is true 1×, Stands 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: And 1×, Certain 1×, Certainly 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3330 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3330 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3330 across 5 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3330 across 6 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 3 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.
- the truth (noun)
- surely, reliably, truly (adjective)
- reliable, true, certain, sure (adjective)
Word origin
יַצִּיב adj. certain, true
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יצב (yᵉtsab) (H3321) — to make stand.
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.
יַצִּיב
- (יָצַב) firm, irrefutable.—אמת וי׳ true and irrefutable, name of a prayer after Sh’ma in the morning and evening prayers. Ber. II, 2 בין ויאמר לאמת וי׳ between vayomer (Num. XV, 37—41) and ĕmeth v’yatsib. Y. ib. I, 2ᵈ bot. א׳ וי׳ של שהרית the ĕmeth v’yatsib of the morning prayer, contrad. to אמת וי׳ of the night prayer (which, in the Babylonian liturgy, begins אמת ואמונה, Ber. 12ᵃ). e.g. Numbers 15:37
יַצִּיב ²
- 1. firmly planted, v. נְצַב. Targ. Ps. XXXVII, 35 (h. text אזרח). Targ. Zech. XIV, 9.
- 2. (cmp. אֶזְרָח) native, citizen. Targ. Ps. LXXXVIII, 1 (h. text אזרחי). Targ. O. Ex. XII, 19 (ed. Berl. pl.); a. fr.—Yoma 47ᵃ, a. e. י׳ בארעא, v. גָּיּוֹר.—[Lev. R. s. 9 יציבא, read: יליפא, v. יְלֵיף.]—Pl. יַצִּיבַיָּא, יַצִּיבֵי. Targ. O. Lev. XVI, 29. Targ. Y. Ex. l. c.; 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.
Forms in the corpus
The 5 distinct written forms H3330 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/יַצִּ֥יב | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:45 | 1 |
| וְ/יַצִּיבָ֥א | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 7:16 | 1 |
| יַצִּיב֙ | Adjective, Adjective, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 2:8 | 1 |
| יַצִּיבָ֖א | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 3:24 | 1 |
| יַצִּיבָ֧א | Adjective, Adjective, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Daniel 6:12 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 5 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 5 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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