יָסַד
ya.sad
“to found”
Definition
to set (literally or figuratively); intensively, to found; reflexively, to sit down together, i.e. settle, consult
a primitive root;
- to found, fix, establish, lay foundation 1a) (Qal) to found, establish, begin 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to fix or seat themselves close together, sit in conclave 1b2) to be founded 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to found 1c2) to establish, appoint, ordain 1d) (Pual) to be founded, be laid 1e) (Hophal) to be founded
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Grammar & Morphology
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Occurrences
יָסַד appears 37 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
The number of those chosen to be gatekeepers at the thresholds was 212. They were registered by genealogy in their villages. David and Samuel the seer had appointed them to their positions of trust.
He builds His upper rooms in the heavensand founds His vault upon the earth.He summons the waters of the seaand pours them over the face of the earth.The LORD is His name.
Are You not from everlasting,O LORD, my God, my Holy One?We will not die.O LORD, You have appointed themto execute judgment;O Rock, You have established themfor correction.
But you have forgotten the LORD, your Maker,who stretched out the heavensand laid the foundations of the earth.You live in terror all day longbecause of the fury of the oppressorwho is bent on destruction.But where is the fury of the oppressor?
the mountains rose and the valleys sankto the place You assigned for them—
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