Strong's #3254: yacaph (pronounced yaw-saf')
a primitive root; to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing):--add, X again, X any more, X cease, X come more, + conceive again, continue, exceed, X further, X gather together, get more, give more-over, X henceforth, increase (more and more), join, X longer (bring, do, make, much, put), X (the, much, yet) more (and more), proceed (further), prolong, put, be (strong-) er, X yet, yield.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yâsaph
1) to add, increase, do again
1a) (Qal) to add, increase, do again
1b) (Niphal)
1b1) to join, join oneself to
1b2) to be joined, be added to
1c) (Hiphil)
1c1) to cause to add, increase
1c2) to do more, do again
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 208 times:
Psalms 120:3: "shall be given unto thee? or what shall be done unto thee, thou false tongue?"
Proverbs 1:5: "man will hear, and will increase learning; and a man of understanding shall attain unto wise counsels:"
Proverbs 3:2: "and long life, and peace, shall they add"
Proverbs 9:9: "wiser: teach a just man, and he will increase in learning."
Proverbs 9:11: "shall be multiplied, and the years of thy life shall be increased."
Proverbs 10:22: "of the LORD, it maketh rich, and he addeth no sorrow with"
Proverbs 10:27: "of the LORD prolongeth days: but the years of the wicked shall be shortened."
Proverbs 11:24: "that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty."
Proverbs 16:21: "prudent: and the sweetness of the lips increaseth learning."
Proverbs 16:23: "of the wise teacheth his mouth, and addeth learning to his lips."
Proverbs 19:4: " maketh many friends; but the poor is separated from his neighbor."
Proverbs 19:19: "if thou deliver him, yet thou must do it again."
Proverbs 23:28: "also lieth in wait as for a prey, and increaseth the transgressors among men."
Proverbs 23:35: "when shall I awake? I will seek it yet again."
Proverbs 30:6: " Add thou not unto his words, lest he reprove thee, and thou be found a liar."
Ecclesiastes 1:16: "Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that"
Ecclesiastes 1:18: "wisdom is much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."
Ecclesiastes 1:18: "grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."
Ecclesiastes 2:9: " and increased more than all that were before me in Jerusalem:"
Ecclesiastes 3:14: "it shall be forever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken"
Isaiah 1:5: "should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick,"
Isaiah 1:13: "no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons"
Isaiah 7:10: "spoke again unto Ahaz, saying,"
Isaiah 8:5: "spoke also unto me again, saying,"
Isaiah 10:20: "of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay"
Isaiah 11:11: "day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant"
Isaiah 15:9: "of blood: for I will bring more upon Dimon, lions upon him that escapeth"
Isaiah 24:20: "upon it; and it shall fall, and not rise again."
Isaiah 26:15: " Thou hast increased the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all"
Isaiah 26:15: "the nation, O LORD, thou hast increased the nation: thou art glorified: thou hadst removed it far unto all"
Isaiah 29:14: "behold, I will proceed to do a marvelous work among this people, even a marvelous work"
Isaiah 29:19: " also shall increase their joy in the LORD, and the poor among men shall rejoice in the Holy One"
Isaiah 37:31: "that is escaped of the house of Judah shall again take root downward, and bear fruit"
Isaiah 38:5: "thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen"
Isaiah 47:1: "of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate."
Isaiah 47:5: "of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called, The lady of kingdoms."
Isaiah 51:22: "the dregs of the cup of my fury; thou shalt no more drink it again:"
Isaiah 52:1: "the holy city: for henceforth there shall no more come into thee the uncircumcised"
Jeremiah 31:12: "garden; and they shall not sorrow any more"
Jeremiah 36:32: "king of Judah had burned in the fire: and there were added besides unto them many"
Jeremiah 45:3: "is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted"
Lamentations 4:15: "they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn"
Lamentations 4:16: "of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons"
Lamentations 4:22: "O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter"
Ezekiel 5:16: "and which I will send to destroy you: and I will increase the famine upon you, and will break"
Ezekiel 23:14: " And that she increased her whoredoms: for when she saw men portrayed upon the wall,"
Ezekiel 36:12: "thee, and thou shalt be their inheritance, and thou shalt no more henceforth bereave"
Hosea 1:6: "Lo-ruhamah: for I will no more more have mercy upon the house"
Hosea 9:15: "of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters."
Hosea 13:2: "they sin more and more, and have made them molten images of their silver, and idols"
