Job 38:8 — Word Study
WLCוַיָּ֣סֶךְ בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ מֵרֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא׃
BSAWho enclosedçâkak▸ [shut up, laid down boundaries] the seayâm [a large body of water] behind doorsdeleth [gates, valves] when it burst forthgîyach [came out, gushed] from the wombrechem [the place of birth, the matrix]
| Greek | English | Parsing |
|---|---|---|
| וַיָּ֣סֶךְ | and he shut off | Verb, Hiphil, sequential imperfect third person masculine singular |
| בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם | with doors | Preposition, noun common feminine dual absolute |
| יָ֑ם | [the] sea | Noun common, masculine singular absolute |
| בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ | when burst forth it | Preposition, verb qal infinitive construct common, suffix |
| מֵרֶ֥חֶם | from [the] womb | Preposition, noun common masculine singular absolute |
| יֵצֵֽא׃ | it came forth | Verb, Qal, imperfect third person masculine singular |
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| BSB | Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb, |
| KJV | Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? |
| ASV | Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb; |
| YLT | And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out. |
| WEB | “Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb, |
| BBE | Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place; |
Where they part company is וַיָּ֣סֶךְ — see How Translations Differ.
The main clause is followed by two prepositional phrases that provide details about the action and its context.
8 commentators on this verse
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Deep Study — Job 38:8
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Context — God Questions Jobgenerated
Job 38:8 is part of God's response to Job, where He poses a series of questions to demonstrate His omnipotence and the mysteries of creation. This verse specifically highlights God's authority over the sea, portraying it as a powerful force that He has tamed and contained. The surrounding verses continue to explore themes of creation and divine control, emphasizing God's role as the Creator.
Cross References
| Reference | Text (BSB) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Job 38:10 | when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors, |
| 2 | Genesis 1:9 | And God said, “Let the waters under the sky be gathered into one place, so that the dry land may appear.” And it was so. |
| 3 | Psalm 33:7 | He piles up the waters of the sea; He puts the depths into storehouses. |
| 4 | Psalm 104:9 | You set a boundary they cannot cross, that they may never again cover the earth. |
| 5 | Proverbs 8:29 | when He set a boundary for the sea, so that the waters would not surpass His command, when He marked out the foundations of the earth. |
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge — 6 references, hung on the phrase they belong to
The Key Word — וַיָּ֣סֶךְ, vai.Ya.sekhgenerated
The verb סכך (*sakhak*) is a Hiphil form meaning 'to shut off' or 'to fence in.' It suggests the act of enclosing or laying down boundaries, indicating God's control over the sea. The parsing as a sequential imperfect third person masculine singular shows that this action is ongoing and reflects God's continuous sovereignty over creation.
This word conveys a sense of protection and limitation, as it implies that the sea is not free to act on its own but is contained within the boundaries set by God. The use of this word in Exodus 33:22 further illustrates its connotation of covering and defense.
How Translations Differ — measured against the Berean Standard Biblegenerated
This study reads the verse in the Berean Standard Bible, so the BSB is the wording every comparison below is made against.
Sentence Structuregenerated
The main verb is וַיָּ֣סֶךְ, and he shut off, which governs the object יָ֑ם, the sea. This structure highlights God's direct action upon the sea, emphasizing His authority in creation.
The prepositional phrase בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם, with doors, adds detail about how the sea is contained, while the clause בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ, when it burst forth, describes the moment of emergence, indicating a powerful and controlled release.
Septuagint Backgroundgenerated
The Septuagint translates וַיָּ֣סֶךְ as ἔφραχα, which means 'I closed' or 'I shut.' This choice reflects a similar meaning of containment but may imply a more definitive action compared to the Hebrew.
The Greek word θάλασσαν for יָ֑ם emphasizes the vastness of the sea, aligning with the Hebrew's connotation of a large body of water.
In plain words — the whole versegenerated
Job 38:8 asks who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb. This verse illustrates God's power over creation, showing that He has set boundaries for the sea, which is a significant force in nature.
Frequently Asked Questionsgenerated
It signifies God's authority and control over the natural world, demonstrating that even powerful forces like the sea are subject to His will.
This imagery emphasizes the sea's emergence as a powerful force, akin to the birth of a child, highlighting the idea of creation and new life.
It underscores God's role as the Creator who establishes order and boundaries within His creation, reflecting His sovereignty.
We learn that God is powerful and sovereign, capable of controlling even the most chaotic elements of nature.
Reflection Questionsgenerated
- How does understanding God's control over the sea affect my view of His power in my life?
- In what ways can I recognize God's boundaries in creation and in my own life?
- What does the imagery of the sea coming from the womb teach us about new beginnings?
- How can I apply the truth of God's sovereignty to my daily challenges?
The early church on this verse — how the Fathers read it
Early commentators have drawn from this verse to discuss God's creation and authority, providing insights into its allegorical meanings.
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it was breaking forth, as if proceeding from the womb? ALLEGORICAL INTERPRETATION For what do we understand by the 'sea,' but the world,Early Church Fathers on Job 38 →
The sea is like a baby who gets out after being fashioned in the womb and is wrapped in clothes of wool. After bringing it into existence from nothing, God gathers the sea together from the place where it was and delimits,Early Church Fathers on Job 38 →
Commentators on this verse — 8 expositors, verse by verse
Each of these wrote on Job 38:8 itself, not merely on the chapter around it.
John Gill1697–1771Gill's Exposition of the Entire BibleOr [who] shut up the sea with doors,.... From the earth the transition is to the sea, according to the order of the creation; and this refers not to the state and case of the sea as at the flood, of
Read John Gill on Job 38 →Robert Jamieson1802–1880Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown's CommentaryOr who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb? Doors - flood-gates; these when opened caused the flood (Genesis 7:11); or else the shores. Womb - of chaos. The bowels of the earth.
Read Robert Jamieson on Job 38 →Matthew Poole1624–1679Matthew Poole's Commentary on the Holy BibleWho was it, thou or I, that did set bounds to the vast and raging ocean, and shut it up as it were with doors within its proper place and storehouse, that it might not overflow the earth; which without God’ s powerful restraint it would do? See 104:9. This sense seems most proper, and to be confirmed by the following verses. When it brake forth, or, after it had broken forth, to wit, from the womb or bowels of the earth, within which the waters were for the most part contained, ; compare ; and out of which they were by God’ s command brought forth into the proper place or channel which God had appointed for them.
Read Matthew Poole on Job 38 →John Trapp1601–1669Trapp's Complete Commentary on the Old and New TestamentsJob 38:8 Or [who] shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, [as if] it had issued out of the womb?Ver. 8. Or who shut up the sea with doors] i.e. With bounds and banks. The sea God shut up in the hollow parts of the earth, as in a great house, that the dry land, naturally overwhelmed thereby, might appear, and become fit, both to bear grain, grass, plants, &c., and to yield a habitation for men and beasts. Piscator thinks it is a metaphor from flood gates at mill ponds. When it brake forth as if it had issued out of the womb?] The sea is here set forth in lively colours, as an imcomprehensible work of God’ s wisdom. Out of nothing God produced it at first, as an infant out of the…
Read John Trapp on Job 38 →AdamClarkeAdam Clarke's Commentary on the BibleVerse 8. Who shut up the sea with doors] Who gathered the waters together into one place, and fixed the sea its limits, so that it cannot overpass them to inundate the earth? When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?] This is a very fine metaphor. The sea is represented as a newly born infant issuing from the womb of the void and formless chaos; and the delicate circumstance of the liquor amnii, which bursts out previously to the birth of the foetus, alluded to. The allusion to the birth of a child is carried on in the next verse.
Read AdamClarke on Job 38 →CambridgeThe Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges4–38. A survey of the inanimate creation, the wonders of earth and sky—the earth, Job 38:4-18; the heavens, Job 38:18-38
Read Cambridge on Job 38 →Albert Barnes1798–1870Barnes' Notes on the BibleOr who shut up the sea with doors - This refers also to the act of the creation, and to the fact that God fixed limits to the raging of the ocean.
Read Albert Barnes on Job 38 →Daniel Denison Whedon1808–1885Whedon's Commentary on the Bibleb. Job may, perhaps, tell who separated the sea from the womb of primeval chaos, and restrained its violence and rage within doors and bars, and made it docile and pliant as an infant in the hands of
Read Daniel Denison Whedon on Job 38 →The verse in English, compared — 17 translations, and where they part company
Every translation on this page is a decision someone had to make and commit to. Read down a column and you see one translator's judgement; read across a row and you see the range the Greek actually allows. The BSB is the wording the rest of this page is measured against, so it is listed first.
Modern formal
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
“Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke out of the womb,
Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
“Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst forth, coming out of the womb,
Tyndale line
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Or who shut up the sea with doors, When it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it brake forth, as if it had issued out of the womb;
Or who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth, as if it had issued out of the womb?
Or who hath shut vp the Sea with doores, when it yssued and came foorth as out of the wombe:
Strictly literal
And who shut up the sea with doors, when it burst forth, issuing out of the womb?
And He shutteth up with doors the sea, In its coming forth, from the womb it goeth out.
And He shuts up the sea with doors, || In its coming forth, it goes out from the womb.
And who closed up with doors the sea, when, issuing forth, it came out of the deep bosom of the earth?
Who shut up the sea with doors when it burst out, as if it had come out of the womb—
From the Latin
Who shut up the sea with doors, when it broke forth as issuing out of the womb:
Simplified
Who laid down the boundaries of the sea when it was born?
Or where were you when the sea came to birth, pushing out from its secret place;
Counted from the translations carried on this site, not from a survey of every English Bible. A rendering shared by many versions is usually inherited rather than independently arrived at — the Tyndale line in particular runs through most of them.
The sentence as the grammar sees it — from the MACULA Hebrew treebank
This is not our own analysis: it is the scholarly syntax tree for the verse, showing how the clause actually holds together.
Boxes are the grammarian's groupings — clause, noun phrase, prepositional phrase.
The four witnesses to this verse — Masoretic, Septuagint, Samaritan, Qumran
The Masoretic Text reads: וַיָּ֣סֶךְ בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ מֵרֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא׃. The Septuagint matches five of the six words, indicating strong agreement between the two texts, though the word order and articles differ.
וַיָּ֣סֶךְ בִּדְלָתַ֣יִם יָ֑ם בְּ֝גִיח֗וֹ מֵרֶ֥חֶם יֵצֵֽא׃
5 of the 6 words are matched. This is the word-by-word correspondence, not the Septuagint's own sentence — its word order and its articles are its own.
Four traditions, not one. “On the leather” means the letters physically survive on the scroll, as against letters an editor has supplied to fill a hole in it — a restoration is a scholar’s reading, not a reading of the manuscript. Words in [square brackets] are supplied; the notes count them apart from what survives.
The map of this verse — what each word keeps company with
This is a map of two things, both counted rather than judged. Company kept: which words stand within three words of each of these, anywhere in the Hebrew Bible — the thicker the line, the more often the pair meet compared with chance. Built from: the words a word is made out of, taken from its own Strong’s entry. It is not a map of meaning: nothing here claims two words mean the same thing. Click any circle to see the numbers behind it.
Lexicons — every word in Job 38:8
One dossier per word, with every reference work grouped by kind — Hebrew lexicons, morphology, Bible dictionaries, topical chains and the English of the translators themselves. The verse sits at the head of each block with the word under study lit, so you never lose your place. The panel above gives the short answer; this is the long one, and it is the part of the page worth indexing.
Every entry below is the lexicographer's own text. On the Hebrew: Brown-Driver-Briggs entire and its gloss set, Strong's Hebrew Dictionary, and Tyndale House's Translators Brief lexicon. Where a cell says a work has no entry, that work genuinely has none for this word.
The Hebrew word סוּךְ (*sukh*) and its variants relate to the concepts of covering, protecting, and weaving together. It encompasses meanings such as to hedge in, overshadow, and screen, with implications of defense and joining. The entries reference various forms and usages, including a noun for 'protector' and verbs that describe actions of covering and weaving. Notably, the word appears in Exodus 33:22.
[סוּךְ, סִיךְ] vb. hedge, or fence about, shut in
base
[סָכַךְ] vb. overshadow, screen, cover
Qal
screen, cover
reflex. cover oneself
Hiph. screen, cover
Pilp. denom.
base
[סָכַךְ] vb. weave together;—Qal ψ 139:13
ref
סֹכֵךְ n. [m.] protector;—term. techn. of structure shielding stormers of city Na 2:6
H5526a סוּךְ, סִיךְ hedge, or fence about, shut in H5526b סָכַךְ overshadow, screen, cover H5526c סָכַךְ weave together H5526d סֹכֵךְ n. [m.] protector H5526e שָׂכַךְ cover, lay over, so as to screen H5526f שָׂכַךְ weave
5526 cakak saw-kak'
or sakak (Exod. 33:22) {saw-kak'}; a primitive root;
properly, to entwine as a screen; by implication, to fence in,
cover over, (figuratively) protect:--cover, defence, defend,
hedge in, join together, set, shut up.
סוּךְ (sukh) — to fence.
(Qal) to hedge, fence about, shut in
סָכַךְ (sa.khakh) — to cover.
1) to block, overshadow, screen, stop the approach, shut off, cover
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to screen, cover
1a2) to cover oneself
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to screen, cover
סָכַךְ (sa.khakh) — to weave.
1) to weave together
4a) (Qal) to weave together
1b) (Pilpel) to weave, weave together
סֹכֵךְ (so.kh) — protector.
protector (participle)
שָׂכַךְ (sa.khakh) — to cover.
(Qal) to cover, lay over
שָׂכַךְ (sa.khakh) — to weave.
1) to weave together
1a) (Qal) to weave together
1b) (Pilpel) to weave, weave together
Conj | V-Hiphil-ConsecImperf-3ms — Verb · Hiphil · sequential imperfect third person masculine singularHc/Vhw3ms
דָּל (dal), דָּלָה (da.lah), and דֶּ֫לֶת (de.let) all refer to a 'door' or 'gate' in Hebrew. The entries indicate various uses, including literal doors and figurative meanings, such as a door of a chamber or even metaphorical doors in poetry. Notably, dal is mentioned in Psalm 141:3.
[דָּל] n.[m.] door only fig.: ψ 141:3.
ref
[דָּלָה] n.f. door, Is 26:20 fig., door of chamber in which people (personified) hides
ref
דֶּ֫לֶת n.f. door
door of house
door of room
gates of city
in other senses
base
H1817a דָּל door H1817b דָּלָה door H1817c דֶּ֫לֶת door
1817 deleth deh'-leth
from 1802; something swinging, i.e. the valve of a
door:--door (two-leaved), gate, leaf, lid. (In Psa. 141:3,
dal, irreg.).
see HEBREW for 01802
דָּל (dal) — door.
door (fig.)
דָּלָה (da.lah) — door.
door (fig., door of chamber in which people (personified) hide)
דֶּ֫לֶת (de.let) — door.
1) door, gate
1a) a door
1b) a gate
1c) (fig.)
1c1) of chest lid
1c2) of crocodile jaws
1c3) of doors of the heavens
1c4) of an easily-accessible woman
Prep | N-fd — Preposition · noun common feminine dual absoluteHR/Ncfda
Doors
Moved on pivots of wood fastened in sockets above and below (Prov. 26:14). They were fastened by a lock (Judg. 3:23, 25; Cant. 5:5) or by a bar (Judg. 16:3; Job 38:10). In the interior of Oriental houses, curtains were frequently used instead of doors.
The entrances of the tabernacle had curtains (Ex. 26:31-33, 36). The “valley of Achor” is called a “door of hope,” because immediately after the execution of Achan the Lord said to Joshua, “Fear not,” and from that time Joshua went forward in a career of uninterrupted conquest. Paul speaks of a “door opened” for…
[GATE]
יָם (yam) means 'sea' and refers to various large bodies of water, including the Mediterranean, Red, and Dead Seas, as well as the Sea of Galilee. It can also denote a mighty river like the Nile and has geographical implications, indicating directions such as west or south. The term is derived from a root meaning to roar, suggesting the noise of breaking surf.
יָם 390 n.m. sea
base
H3220 יָם sea
3220 yam yawm
from an unused root meaning to roar; a sea (as breaking in
noisy surf) or large body of water; specifically (with the
article), the Mediterranean Sea; sometimes a large river, or
an artifical basin; locally, the west, or (rarely) the
south:--sea (X -faring man, (-shore)), south, west (-ern,
side, -ward).
יָם (yam) — sea.
: sea
1) sea
1a) Mediterranean Sea
1b) Red Sea
1c) Dead Sea
1d) Sea of Galilee
1e) sea (general)
1f) mighty river (Nile)
1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court)
1h) seaward, west, westward
יָם (yam) — sea: west.
: west
1) sea
1a) Mediterranean Sea
1b) Red Sea
1c) Dead Sea
1d) Sea of Galilee
1e) sea (general)
1f) mighty river (Nile)
1g) the sea (the great basin in the temple court)
1h) seaward, west, westward
יָם (yam) — (Mt. Ephron in the) West.
This name means sea, seaward, westward
Another name of eph.ron (עֶפְרוֹן "(Mount )Ephron" H6085H)
N-ms — Noun common · masculine singular absoluteHNcmsa
se (yam; thalassa; in Ac 27:5 pelagos): The Mediterranean is called ha-yam ha-gadhol, "the great sea" (Nu 34:6; Jos 1:4; Eze 47:10, etc.); ha-yam ha-'acharon, "the hinder," or "western sea" (De 11:24; 34:2; Joe 2:20; Zec 14:8); yam pelishtim, "the sea of the Philis" (Ex 23:31); the King James Version translates yam yapho' in Ezr 3:7 by "sea of Joppa," perhaps rightly.
The sea, yam , is used in Scripture to denote-- "The gathering of the waters," "the Ocean." (Genesis 1:2,10; 30:13) etc. Some portion of this, as the Mediterranean Sea, called the "hinder," the "western" and the "utmost" sea, (11:24; 34:2; Joel 2:20) "sea of the Philistines," (Exodus 23:31) "the great sea," (Numbers 36:6,7; Joshua 15:47) "the sea." Genesis49:13; Psal 80:11 Also frequently of the Red Sea. (Exodus 15:4) [RED SEA SEA] Inland lakes termed seas, as the Salt or Dead Sea. [See the special article] Any…
The Hebrews give the name of sea to any large collection of water, Job 14:11; as to the lakes of Tiberias and Asphaltites, and also to the rivers Nile and Euphrates, Isa 11:15 18:2 21:1 Jer 51:36,42. The principal seas mentioned in Scripture are the following:
1. The GREAT SEA, the Mediterranean, called also the Hinder or Western Sea. Indeed, the Hebrew word for sea, meaning the Mediterranean, is often put for the west. The Great Sea is 2,200 miles long, and in the widest part 1,200 miles in width. In many places it is so deep as to give no soundings. It is little affected by tides, but is often agitated by violent winds. The prevailing direction of the wind in spring is from the southeast and southwest and from the northeast…
→ Creation of Ge 1:9,10; Ps 95:5; 148:4,5
→ Lake Galilee calmed by Jesus Mt 8:24-26; Mr 4:37-39
→ Jesus walked upon Lake Galilee Mt 14:25-31
גִּיחַ (giyach) means to burst forth or come out, often in the context of drawing forth or bringing forth, particularly from the womb. It can also imply breaking forth or issuing forth, as seen in various forms of labor or travail. The entries do not indicate any significant disagreement among lexicons.
[גִּיחַ, גּוּחַ] vb. burst forth
intrans. burst forth
trans.
draw forth from womb
thrust forth, bring forth, fig. of travail
base
H1518 [גִּיחַ, גּוּחַ] burst forth . intrans. burst forth
. trans. . draw forth from womb
. thrust forth, bring forth, fig. of travail
1518 giyach ghee'-akh
or (shortened) goach {go'-akh}; a primitive root; to gush
forth (as water), generally to issue:--break forth, labor to
bring forth, come forth, draw up, take out.
גִּיחַ (gi.ach) — to burst/come out.
1) to burst forth
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to burst forth
1a2) to draw forth
1a3) to bring forth
1b) (Hiphil) to break forth
Aramaic equivalent: gi.ach (גִּיחַ "to strive" H1519)
Prep | V-Qal-Inf-a | Suff — Preposition · verb qal infinitive construct common · suffixHR/Vqcc/Sp3ms
רֶ֫חֶם (rechem) means 'womb' and is derived from the root word רָחַם (racham). It primarily refers to the womb itself, but can also denote a woman or female servant. The term appears in contexts related to childbirth and femininity.
רֶ֫חֶם, רַ֫חַם n.m. womb
base
H7358 רֶ֫חֶם, רַ֫חַם womb
7358 rechem rekh'-em
from 7355; the womb (compare 7356):--matrix, womb.
see HEBREW for 07355
see HEBREW for 07356
רֶ֫חֶם (re.chem) — womb.
1) womb
1a) womb
1b) womb-man, woman-slave, woman, two women
Prep | N-ms — Preposition · noun common masculine singular absoluteHR/Ncmsa
יָצָא (yatsa') is a Hebrew verb meaning to go or come out, with various applications including departure, escape, and emergence. It can refer to both animate and inanimate subjects and emphasizes the idea of origin or source. The verb appears in different forms, such as Qal, Hiphil, and Hophal, indicating actions like leading out or being brought forth.
יָצָא 1068 vb. go or come out
Qal
go or come out or forth
from (מִן) a place
go forth from (the presence of) a person
in technical senses
of flight, involving escape
depart
of inanimate things
with especial emphasis on idea of origin, source
of children as going forth from loins (of father)
go forth to a place
go forward, proceed to or toward something
come or go forth, with esp. ref. to purpose or result
of combinations
Hiph.
cause to go or come out, bring out, lead out
fig. obj. persons, bring out of (מִן) distress, etc.
bring out animals
inanimate obj.
fig. subj. י׳, bring forth from (מִן)
Hoph. be brought forth
base
H3318 יָצָא go or come out .. go or come out or forth . from (מִן) a place
. go forth from (the presence of) a person
. in technical senses
. of flight, involving escape
. depart
. of inanimate things
. with especial emphasis on idea of origin, source
. of children as going forth from loins (of father)
. . go forth to a place
. go forward, proceed to or toward something
. come or go forth, with esp. ref. to purpose or result
. of combinations
. . cause to go or come out, bring out, lead out
. fig. obj. persons, bring out of (מִן) distress, etc.
. bring out animals
. inanimate obj.
. fig. subj. י׳, bring forth from (מִן)
. be brought forth
3318 yatsa' yaw-tsaw'
a primitive root; to go (causatively, bring) out, in a great
variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct
and proxim.:--X after, appear, X assuredly, bear out, X
begotten, break out, bring forth (out, up), carry out, come
(abroad, out, thereat, without), + be condemned,
depart(-ing, -ure), draw forth, in the end, escape, exact,
fail, fall (out), fetch forth (out), get away (forth, hence,
out), (able to, cause to, let) go abroad (forth, on, out),
going out, grow, have forth (out), issue out, lay (lie) out,
lead out, pluck out, proceed, pull out, put away, be risen, X
scarce, send with commandment, shoot forth, spread, spring
out, stand out, X still, X surely, take forth (out), at any
time, X to (and fro), utter.
יָצָא (ya.tsa) — to come out: come.
: come/go_out/escape
1) to go out, come out, exit, go forth
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go or come out or forth, depart
1a2) to go forth (to a place)
1a3) to go forward, proceed to (to or toward something)
1a4) to come or go forth (with purpose or for result)
1a5) to come out of
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to go or come out, bring out, lead out
1b2) to bring out of
1b3) to lead out
1b4) to deliver
1c) (Hophal) to be brought out or forth
יָצָא (ya.tsa) — to come out: send.
: send/take_out/release
1) to go out, come out, exit, go forth
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to go or come out or forth, depart
1a2) to go forth (to a place)
1a3) to go forward, proceed to (to or toward something)
1a4) to come or go forth (with purpose or for result)
1a5) to come out of
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to cause to go or come out, bring out, lead out
1b2) to bring out of
1b3) to lead out
1b4) to deliver
HVqi3ms — Verb · Qal · imperfect third person masculine singularHVqi3ms
forth: "Forth," adverb (from "for"), signifies movement
(1) forward,
(2) out of,
(3) beyond a certain boundary.
In a few instances in the Old Testament it is the translation of the preposition `al, properly "above," "upon" (2Ki 11:15; 2Ch 23:14; Am 7:17 the King James Version), and of chuts, "without" (Ge 39:13; Jud 19:25). "Forth" is often used as an expletive of various verbs, as "break (forth)," "bring (forth)," "call (forth)," etc. In the Gospel of John it is the translation of exo, "without," as "Lazarus, come forth" (11:43; so 15:6; 19:4 the King James Version…