Bible word study

Yasha (Strong’s H3467): Meaning in the Bible

Yasha (יָשַׁע) is the Hebrew word numbered H3467 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as properly, to be open, wide or free, i.e. (by implication) to be safe; causatively, to free or succor. In the King James Bible it is translated avenging, defend, deliver(-er), help, preserve.

• Original wordיָשַׁע
• Transliterationyâshaʻ
• Pronunciationyaw-shah'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH3467
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yasha appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yasha (H3467) stands behind 205 English renderings in 198 verses across 23 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (57), Isaiah (29), Judges (21).

How the King James Bible renders Yasha, by count

• save104 of 205 (51 percent)
• saved35 of 205 (17 percent)
• saviour13 of 205 (6 percent)
• help10 of 205 (5 percent)
• delivered8 of 205 (4 percent)
• saveth7 of 205 (3 percent)

Three places to read Yasha

• Exodus 2:17 And the shepherds came and drove them away: but Moses stood up and helped them, and watered their flock.
• 1 Chronicles 19:12 And he said, If the Syrians be too strong for me, then thou shalt help me: but if the children of Ammon be too strong for thee, then I will help thee.
• Proverbs 20:22 Say not thou, I will recompense evil; but wait on the LORD, and he shall save thee.

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 Yasha 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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