יְקוּם
substance
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
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.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3351 appears — 3 distinct verses across 2 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 2 verses
- Genesis 7:4 הַ/יְקוּם֙ ptcl def.art + n c ms In seven days, I will cause it to rain on the earth for forty days and forty nights. Every living thing that I have made, I will destroy from the surface of the ground."
- Genesis 7:23 הַ/יְק֣וּם ptcl def.art + n c ms Every living thing was destroyed that was on the surface of the ground, including man, cattle, creeping things, and birds of the sky. They were destroyed from the earth. Only Noah was left, and those who were with him in the ark.
Deuteronomy 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.
יקום (yᵉqûwm) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “substance.” The Hebrew Bible uses it only 3 verses. It clusters heavily in Genesis, which alone accounts for 67% of its uses. It first appears in Genesis 7:4. It clusters with קום, מקום and קום under a shared root. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3351 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 →
- 3
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 3 distinct verses.
- 2 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 2 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #4,179
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 4,179 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 3 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Genesis 2 verses 67%
- Deuteronomy 1 verse 33%
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 3 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 3 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: All the substance 1×, Every living substance 1×, Living substance 1×
- American Standard Version: Every living thing 2×
- Berean Standard Bible: Living thing 3×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Living thing 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3351 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3351 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3351 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3351 across 3 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.
- living substance, that which stands or exists, existence, substance
Word origin
יְקוּם n.[m.] substance, existence
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from קום (qûwm) (H6965) — to rise.
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.
יָקוּם
- , v. יָקִים
יְקוּם
- v. קוּם) existence, substance, being. Koh. R. to VI, 3 מהו הי׳ קיומא what is hayy’kum (Gen. VII, 23)? Existence; R. B. says: the inhabited world (v. אִיקוּמֵינֵי); R. El. says, י׳ זה הממון וכ׳ y’kum means property (substance) which makes firm &c.; Gen. R. s. 32. Num. R. s. 18; Pes. 119ᵃ; Snh. 110ᵃ (ref. to Deut. XI, 6).—Pl. יְקוּמִים. Yalk. Gen. 56 נמחו כל הי׳ (Pirké d’R. El. ch. XXIII היקום collective noun) all beings were swept away. e.g. Genesis 7:23
יָקִים
- (b. h.) Jakim. Gen. R. s. 65 end; Midr. Till. to Ps. XI י׳ איש צרורות J. (Alkimos) of Seroroth, a Hellenist, nephew of R. Jose ben Joezer.
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 2 distinct written forms H3351 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/יְקוּם֙ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 11:6 | 2 |
| הַ/יְק֣וּם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 7:23 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3351, 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
Shares the same root
- מקום mâqôwm H4725 place
- קום qûwm H6966 to arise
- קומה qôwmâh H6967 height
- קוממיות qôwmᵉmîyûwth H6968 uprightness
- קים qîym H7009 adversary
- קימה qîymâh H7012 rising up
- קמה qâmâh H7054 standing grain
- תקומה tᵉqûwmâh H8617 standing
- תקומם tᵉqôwmêm H8618 rising against
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יקים Yâqîym H3356 Jakim
- יקמיה Yᵉqamyâh H3359 Jecamiah
- יקמעם Yᵉqamʻâm H3360 Jekameam
- יקמעם Yoqmᵉʻâm H3361 Jokmeam
- קמואל Qᵉmûwʼêl H7055 Kemuel
- קמון Qâmôwn H7056 Camon
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 17 — not the complete family. 6 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 3 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 3 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.
