H3426: יֵשׁ
yêsh · pronounced yaysh · “there”
Definition
there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
KJV translates it as: (there) are, (he, it, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should) be, thou do, had, hast, (which) hath, (I, shalt, that) have, (he, it, there) is, substance, it (there) was, (there) were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest.
Word origin: perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (H1961 (הָיָה));
Extended definition
1a) substance
1b) existence
1c) there is or are
Aramaic equivalent: i.tay (אִיתַי "there is" H0383)
Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).
How H3426 is translated
- there ×96
- is there ×21
- there is ×6
- you ×5
- it ×3
- does there ×2
- he ×2
- is there? ×2
- that there ×1
- substance ×1
- are there ×1
Bible verses with H3426 (yêsh)
Yêsh appears in 130 verses; the first 25 are shown below.
- Genesis 18:24
Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein?
- Genesis 23:8
And he communed with them, saying, If it be your mind that I should bury my dead out of my sight; hear me, and intreat for me to Ephron the son of Zohar,
- Genesis 24:23
And said, Whose daughter art thou? tell me, I pray thee: is there room in thy father’s house for us to lodge in?
- Genesis 24:42
And I came this day unto the well, and said, O Lord God of my master Abraham, if now thou do prosper my way which I go:
- Genesis 24:49
And now if ye will deal kindly and truly with my master, tell me: and if not, tell me; that I may turn to the right hand, or to the left.
- Genesis 28:16
And Jacob awaked out of his sleep, and he said, Surely the Lord is in this place; and I knew it not.
- Genesis 31:29
It is in the power of my hand to do you hurt: but the God of your father spake unto me yesternight, saying, Take thou heed that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.
- Genesis 33:9
And Esau said, I have enough, my brother; keep that thou hast unto thyself.
- Genesis 33:11
Take, I pray thee, my blessing that is brought to thee; because God hath dealt graciously with me, and because I have enough. And he urged him, and he took it.
- Genesis 39:4
And Joseph found grace in his sight, and he served him: and he made him overseer over his house, and all that he had he put into his hand.
- Genesis 39:5
And it came to pass from the time that he had made him overseer in his house, and over all that he had, that the Lord blessed the Egyptian’s house for Joseph’s sake; and the blessing of the Lord was upon all that he had in the house, and in the field.
- Genesis 39:8
But he refused, and said unto his master’s wife, Behold, my master wotteth not what is with me in the house, and he hath committed all that he hath to my hand;
- Genesis 42:1
Now when Jacob saw that there was corn in Egypt, Jacob said unto his sons, Why do ye look one upon another?
- Genesis 42:2
And he said, Behold, I have heard that there is corn in Egypt: get you down thither, and buy for us from thence; that we may live, and not die.
- Genesis 43:4
If thou wilt send our brother with us, we will go down and buy thee food:
- Genesis 43:7
And they said, The man asked us straitly of our state, and of our kindred, saying, Is your father yet alive? have ye another brother? and we told him according to the tenor of these words: could we certainly know that he would say, Bring your brother down?
- Genesis 44:19
My lord asked his servants, saying, Have ye a father, or a brother?
- Genesis 44:20
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
- Genesis 44:26
And we said, We cannot go down: if our youngest brother be with us, then will we go down: for we may not see the man’s face, except our youngest brother be with us.
- Genesis 47:6
The land of Egypt is before thee; in the best of the land make thy father and brethren to dwell; in the land of Goshen let them dwell: and if thou knowest any men of activity among them, then make them rulers over my cattle.
- Exodus 17:7
And he called the name of the place Massah, and Meribah, because of the chiding of the children of Israel, and because they tempted the Lord, saying, Is the Lord among us, or not?
- Numbers 9:20
And so it was, when the cloud was a few days upon the tabernacle; according to the commandment of the Lord they abode in their tents, and according to the commandment of the Lord they journeyed.
- Numbers 9:21
And so it was, when the cloud abode from even unto the morning, and that the cloud was taken up in the morning, then they journeyed: whether it was by day or by night that the cloud was taken up, they journeyed.
- Numbers 13:20
And what the land is, whether it be fat or lean, whether there be wood therein, or not. And be ye of good courage, and bring of the fruit of the land. Now the time was the time of the firstripe grapes.
- Numbers 22:29
And Balaam said unto the ass, Because thou hast mocked me: I would there were a sword in mine hand, for now would I kill thee.
All 130 references
- Deuteronomy 13:3
- Deuteronomy 29:15
- Deuteronomy 29:18
- Judges 4:20
- Judges 6:13
- Judges 6:36
- Judges 18:14
- Judges 19:19
- Ruth 1:12
- Ruth 3:12
- 1 Samuel 9:11
- 1 Samuel 9:12
- 1 Samuel 14:39
- 1 Samuel 14:41
- 1 Samuel 17:46
- 1 Samuel 20:8
- 1 Samuel 21:3
- 1 Samuel 21:4
- 1 Samuel 21:8
- 1 Samuel 23:23
- 2 Samuel 9:1
- 2 Samuel 14:32
- 2 Samuel 19:28
- 1 Kings 17:12
- 1 Kings 18:10
- 2 Kings 2:16
- 2 Kings 3:12
- 2 Kings 4:2
- 2 Kings 4:13
- 2 Kings 5:8
- 2 Kings 9:15
- 2 Kings 10:15
- 2 Kings 10:23
- 1 Chronicles 29:3
- 2 Chronicles 15:7
- 2 Chronicles 16:9
- 2 Chronicles 25:8
- 2 Chronicles 25:9
- Ezra 10:2
- Ezra 10:44
- Nehemiah 5:2
- Nehemiah 5:3
- Nehemiah 5:4
- Nehemiah 5:5
- Esther 3:8
- Job 5:1
- Job 6:6
- Job 6:30
- Job 9:33
- Job 11:18
- Job 14:7
- Job 16:4
- Job 25:3
- Job 28:1
- Job 33:23
- Job 33:32
- Job 38:28
- Psalms 7:3
- Psalms 14:2
- Psalms 53:2
- Psalms 58:11
- Psalms 73:11
- Psalms 135:17
- Proverbs 3:28
- Proverbs 8:21
- Proverbs 11:24
- Proverbs 12:18
- Proverbs 13:7
- Proverbs 13:23
- Proverbs 14:12
- Proverbs 16:25
- Proverbs 18:24
- Proverbs 19:18
- Proverbs 20:15
- Proverbs 23:18
- Proverbs 24:14
- Ecclesiastes 1:10
- Ecclesiastes 2:13
- Ecclesiastes 2:21
- Ecclesiastes 4:8
- Ecclesiastes 4:9
- Ecclesiastes 5:13
- Ecclesiastes 6:1
- Ecclesiastes 6:11
- Ecclesiastes 7:15
- Ecclesiastes 8:6
- Ecclesiastes 8:14
- Ecclesiastes 9:4
- Ecclesiastes 10:5
- Isaiah 43:8
- Isaiah 44:8
- Jeremiah 5:1
- Jeremiah 14:22
- Jeremiah 23:26
- Jeremiah 27:18
- Jeremiah 31:6
- Jeremiah 31:16
- Jeremiah 31:17
- Jeremiah 37:17
- Jeremiah 41:8
- Lamentations 1:12
- Lamentations 3:29
- Jonah 4:11
- Micah 2:1
- Malachi 1:14