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1 Samuel 9:8
“And the servant answered Saul again, and said, Behold, I have here at hand the fourth part of a shekel of silver: that will I give to the man of God, to tell us our way.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H3254 · Hebrew
- Definition
- to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
- Derivation
- a primitive root;
- KJV renderings
- add, [idiom] again, [idiom] any more, [idiom] cease, [idiom] come more, [phrase] conceive again, continue, exceed, [idiom] further, [idiom] gather together, get more, give more-over, [idiom] henceforth, increase (more and more), join, [idiom] longer (bring, do, make, much, put), [idiom] (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, [idiom] yet, yield.
- Grammar
- וַ — conjunction
- יֹּ֤סֶף — verb Hiphil, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 210 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 4:2Genesis 4:12Genesis 8:10Genesis 8:12Genesis 8:21
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read יָסַף here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.