יָסַף yâçaph — to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)
Translated in the KJV as add, × again, × any more, × cease, × come more, conceive again, continue, exceed, × further, × gather together, get more, give more-over.
a primitive root; to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing).
yâçaph in each stem
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 93Wayyiqtol 45Jussive 23Infinitive construct 4Perfect (qatal) 4Cohortative 2Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2
And she again bare his brother Abel. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground.
When thou tillest the ground, it shall not henceforth yield unto thee her strength; a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth.
And he stayed yet other seven days; and again he sent forth the dove out of the ark;
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 19Sequential perfect (weqatal) 11Participle (active) 1
And he stayed yet other seven days; and sent forth the dove; which returned not again unto him any more.
And Judah acknowledged them, and said, She hath been more righteous than I; because that I gave her not to Shelah my son. And he knew her again no more.
And if a man eat of the holy thing unwittingly, then he shall put the fifth part thereof unto it, and shall give it unto the priest with the holy thing.
Niph'al
Sequential perfect (weqatal) 3Participle (active) 2Perfect (qatal) 1
Come on, let us deal wisely with them; lest they multiply, and it come to pass, that, when there falleth out any war, they join also unto our enemies, and fight against us, and so get them up out of the land.
And if they be married to any of the sons of the other tribes of the children of Israel, then shall their inheritance be taken from the inheritance of our fathers, and shall be put to the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall it be taken from the lot of our inheritance.
And when the jubile of the children of Israel shall be, then shall their inheritance be put unto the inheritance of the tribe whereunto they are received: so shall their inheritance be taken away from the inheritance of the tribe of our fathers.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›