What is the Strong's number for Yacaph?

The Strong's number for Yacaph (יָסַף) is H3254. It is a Hebrew word from Strong's public-domain dictionary keyed to the King James Bible.

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Yacaph (Strong’s H3254): Meaning in the Bible

Q: What does Yacaph mean?

Yacaph (יָסַף, Strong's H3254) is a Hebrew word. Strong's defines it as to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing). The King James Bible translates it as add, × again, × any more, × cease, × come more, conceive again, continue, exceed, × further, × gather together, get more, give more-over, × henceforth, increase (more and more), join, × longer (bring, do, make, much, put), × (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, × yet, yield.

Yacaph (יָסַף) is the Hebrew word numbered H3254 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing). In the King James Bible it is translated add, conceive again, continue, exceed, get more.

יָסַף

yâçaph · Hebrew

Strong’s H3254 · yaw-saf'

Original wordיָסַף
Transliterationyâçaph
Pronunciationyaw-saf'
Part of speechverb (v)
Strong’s numberH3254
LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

add, × again, × any more, × cease, × come more, conceive again, continue, exceed, × further, × gather together, get more, give more-over, × henceforth, increase (more and more), join, × longer (bring, do, make, much, put), × (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, × yet, yield. (The × marks places where the word shapes the phrasing rather than being rendered by a single English word.)

Where Yacaph appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yacaph (H3254) stands behind 215 English renderings in 205 verses across 32 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Isaiah (20), 1 Samuel (17), Deuteronomy (15).

How the King James Bible renders Yacaph, by count

more70 of 215 (33 percent)
again54 of 215 (25 percent)
add22 of 215 (10 percent)
also6 of 215 (3 percent)
increase6 of 215 (3 percent)
increased5 of 215 (2 percent)

Three places to read Yacaph

Genesis 4:2 And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
Judges 20:23 (And the children of Israel went up and wept before the LORD until even, and asked counsel of the LORD, saying, Shall I go up again to battle against the children of Benjamin my brother? And the LORD said, Go up against him.)
Job 38:11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yacaph in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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