יָצַג
ya.tsag (H3322)
to set
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# Yatsag (יָצַג): Setting and Positioning in Biblical Hebrew The Hebrew verb *yatsag* carries the fundamental meaning "to set," describing the action of placing or positioning something in a specific location or state. With 16 occurrences across the biblical text, this word belongs to a core vocabulary for spatial arrangement and establishment. The verb functions as a practical term for deliberately arranging objects or circumstances rather than as an abstract concept, suggesting concrete, intentional action. The limited but consistent frequency of *yatsag* in Scripture indicates it served a specialized communicative function—precise enough to distinguish from more common verbs for placing or positioning, yet narrow enough in application that it didn't require frequent use. Its presence across 16 separate instances suggests the biblical writers found it useful for describing particular contexts where the sense of "setting" or "establishing" held specific significance. Without access to individual usage examples, the word's exact contextual range remains bounded by its core semantic field of positioning and arrangement. For readers of biblical texts, *yatsag* represents one of several Hebrew verbs available for describing placement or arrangement. Its relatively modest frequency compared to other positional verbs suggests it conveyed nuances meaningful to ancient audiences but now requires careful attention to surrounding context for full interpretive clarity.
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He set the rods which he had peeled opposite the flocks in the watering troughs where the flocks came to drink. They conceived when they came to drink.
Esau said, “Let me now leave with you some of the people who are with me.” He said, “Why? Let me find favor in the sight of my lord.”
I’ll be collateral for him. From my hand will you require him. If I don’t bring him to you, and set him before you, then let me bear the blame forever;
From among his brothers he took five men, and presented them to Pharaoh.
Pharaoh called to Moses, and said, “Go, serve Yahweh. Only let your flocks and your herds stay behind. Let your little ones also go with you.”
The tender and delicate woman among you, who would not venture to set the sole of her foot on the ground for delicateness and tenderness, her eye will be evil toward the husband that she loves, toward her son, toward her daughter,
behold, I will put a fleece of wool on the threshing floor. If there is dew on the fleece only, and it is dry on all the ground, then I’ll know that you will save Israel by my hand, as you have spoken.”
So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
Gideon made an ephod out of it, and put it in Ophrah, his city. Then all Israel played the prostitute with it there; and it became a snare to Gideon and to his house.
The Philistines took God’s ark, and brought it into the house of Dagon and set it by Dagon.
They brought in Yahweh’s ark, and set it in its place, in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and David offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before Yahweh.
They brought in God’s ark, and set it in the middle of the tent that David had pitched for it; and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before God.
“But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.
“Nebuchadnezzar the king of Babylon has devoured me. He has crushed me. He has made me an empty vessel. He has, like a monster, swallowed me up. He has filled his mouth with my delicacies. He has cast me out.
Lest I strip her naked, and make her bare as in the day that she was born, and make her like a wilderness, and set her like a dry land, and kill her with thirst.
Hate evil, love good, and establish justice in the courts. It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”