יַצַע yatsaʻ — to strew as a surface
Translated in the KJV as make bed, × lie, spread.
a primitive root; to strew as a surface.
yatsaʻ in each stem
Hoph'al
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2
And in every province, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, there was great mourning among the Jews, and fasting, and weeping, and wailing; and many lay in sackcloth and ashes.
Thy pomp is brought down to the grave, and the noise of thy viols: the worm is spread under thee, and the worms cover thee.
Hiph'il
Cohortative 1Imperfect (yiqtol) 1
If I ascend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there.
Is it such a fast that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his soul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrush, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?
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 ›