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יֵשׁ
yêsh · Hebrew · Strong's H3426 · 138 occurrences
The KJV renders 15 different Hebrew and Greek words as “substance”
What it means
there is or are (or any other form of the verb to be, as may suit the connection)
perhaps from an unused root meaning to stand out, or exist; entity; used adverbially or as a copula for the substantive verb (H1961 (הָיָה));
How the KJV renders it
are, shall, there, there may, there shall, there should be, thou do, had, hast, hath, shalt, that have, there is, substance, it was, were, ye will, thou wilt, wouldest
Where that flattens a distinction
The same English word is also used for these other originals, so the distinction between them disappears in translation.
“substance”
also renders
ousía (G3776), hypárchonta (G5224), hypóstasis (G5287), hýparxis (G5223), ʼôwn (H202), havvâh (H1942), hôwn (H1952), chayil (H2428), kôach (H3581), matstsebeth (H4678), miqneh (H4735), qîym (H7009), qinyân (H7075), rᵉkûwsh (H7399)“there”
also renders
ekeî (G1563), ekeîse (G1566), hōde (G5602), ekeîthen (G1564), entháde (G1759), autoû (G847), ʼepheç (H657), dên (H1836), ʻal (H5922), tâm (H8536)“shall”
also renders
méllō (G3195)“there is”
also renders ʼîythay (H383)
Answers that weigh this word
Where it appears
138 occurrences in the Hebrew text, first 60 verses shown.
1 Chronicles 29:3 · HTm
In addition, because I have set my affection on the house of my God, since I have a treasure of my own of gold and silver, I give it to the house of my God, over and above all that I have prepared for the holy house:
1 Kings 17:12 · HTm
She said, “As Yahweh your God lives, I don’t have anything baked, but only a handful of meal in a jar and a little oil in a jar. Behold, I am gathering two sticks, that I may go in and bake it for me and my son, that we may eat it, and die.”
1 Kings 18:10 · HTm
As Yahweh your God lives, there is no nation or kingdom where my lord has not sent to seek you. When they said, ‘He is not here,’ he took an oath of the kingdom and nation that they didn’t find you.
1 Samuel 9:11 · HTi/Tm
As they went up the ascent to the city, they found young maidens going out to draw water, and said to them, “Is the seer here?”
1 Samuel 9:12 · HTm
They answered them and said, “He is. Behold, he is before you. Hurry now, for he has come today into the city; for the people have a sacrifice today in the high place.
1 Samuel 14:39 · HTm/Sp3ms
For as Yahweh lives, who saves Israel, though it is in Jonathan my son, he shall surely die.” But there was not a man among all the people who answered him.
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