יָע
yâʻ · H3257 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences
Thing
Meanings
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shovel, scraper
An implement looking like a kind of shovel, rake, or hoe, for removing the refuse from the altar after a victim has been burned
ExamplesExodus 27:3 “And you shall make its pails for removing its ashes, and its shovels, its basins, its forks, and its firepans; you shall make all its utensils of bronze.
Exodus 38:3 He also made all the utensils of the altar, the pails, the shovels, the basins, the meat-forks, and the firepans; he made all its utensils of bronze.
Numbers 4:14 “They shall also put on it all its utensils by which they serve in connection with it: the firepans, the forks, shovels, and the basins, all the utensils of the altar; and they shall spread a cover of fine leather over it and insert its carrying poles.
How it’s used In 3 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- הוּhis 1
Named alongside itApposition
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- כְּלִיvessel, utensil, weapon 2
What is done to itIt is the object
5 occurrences in 2 groups
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 3
- לָקַחto take, to receive 2
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מַחְתָּה machtâh · H4289 · firepan
- מַחְתָּה denotes fire pans or censers used for carrying coals and incense in cultic contexts (Exod 27:3, 38:3; Num 4:14), regularly enumerated alongside יָע in temple utensil lists. Both are metal implements for handling altar materials, though מַחְתָּה is specifically for fire/coals while יָע is for ashes.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Tools001003001001017
- יָע denotes a shovel, one of the bronze implements made for the tabernacle altar to remove its ashes (Exodus 27:3).
Word family 2 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3257. ya [יָע] noun [masculine] shovel (ᵑ7Jer יָעֵי Exo 27:3) — plural הַיָּעִים Exo…
[יָע] noun [masculine] shovel (ᵑ7Jer יָעֵי Exo 27:3) — plural הַיָּעִים Exo 38:3 Exo 38:7t.; יָעָיו Exo 27:3; — utensils for cleaning altar, shovels Exo 27:3; Exo 38:3; Num 4:14 (all P), 1Ki 7:40, 1Ki 7:45; 2Ki 25:14; 2Ch 4:11, 2Ch 4:16; Jer 52:18 (only in lists of utensils).
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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