Bible word study

Yatsaq (Strong’s H3332): Meaning in the Bible

Yatsaq (יָצַק) is the Hebrew word numbered H3332 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, to pour out (transitive or intransitive); by implication, to melt or cast as metal; by extension, to place firmly, to stiffen or grow hard. In the King James Bible it is translated cast, cleave fast, be (as) firm, grow, be hard.

• Original wordיָצַק
• Transliterationyâtsaq
• Pronunciationyaw-tsak'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH3332
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yatsaq appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yatsaq (H3332) stands behind 53 English renderings in 51 verses across 14 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Exodus (8), Leviticus (8), 1 Kings (8).

How the King James Bible renders Yatsaq, by count

• cast11 of 53 (21 percent)
• pour11 of 53 (21 percent)
• poured10 of 53 (19 percent)
• out7 of 53 (13 percent)
• molten6 of 53 (11 percent)
• firm2 of 53 (4 percent)

Three places to read Yatsaq

• Genesis 28:18 And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put for his pillows, and set it up for a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it.
• Leviticus 21:10 And he that is the high priest among his brethren, upon whose head the anointing oil was poured, and that is consecrated to put on the garments, shall not uncover his head, nor rend his clothes;
• 2 Kings 4:40 So they poured out for the men to eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out, and said, O thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof.

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 Yatsaq 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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