יַצִּיב
yats.tsiv (H3330)
certain
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# H3330: יַצִּיב (yatstsiv) — "Certain" The Hebrew word *yatstsiv* appears five times in the biblical text and carries the meaning of "certain" or "fixed." Based on its limited occurrences, this term belongs to a specialized vocabulary for describing things that are established, stable, or reliably determined rather than doubtful or variable. The word functions as an adjective, qualifying nouns to indicate that they possess a definite, settled character. Given its rarity in the biblical corpus, *yatstsiv* likely served a particular communicative function in Hebrew—employed when writers needed to emphasize the fixed or assured nature of something specific. The five attestations suggest this was not everyday vocabulary but rather a term reserved for contexts where certainty or stability required explicit marking. Without access to the specific verses where it appears, we can note that such specialized terms often cluster in particular genres or theological contexts where precision about certainty was important to the original authors.
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The king answered, “I know of a certainty that you are trying to gain time, because you see the thing has gone from me.
Because you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the great God has made known to the king what will happen hereafter. The dream is certain, and its interpretation sure.”
Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste. He spoke and said to his counselors, “Didn’t we cast three men bound into the middle of the fire?” They answered the king, “True, O king.”
Then they came near, and spoke before the king concerning the king’s decree: “Haven’t you signed a decree that every man who makes a petition to any god or man within thirty days, except to you, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions?” The king answered, “This thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which doesn’t alter.”
I came near to one of those who stood by, and asked him the truth concerning all this. “So he told me, and made me know the interpretation of the things.