What does יָצָא (yāṣāʾ) mean in the Bible?
יָצָא is a very common Hebrew verb meaning to go out, come out, depart, emerge, or, in causative forms, bring out. The local Hebrew index currently counts about 1,076 occurrences.
Hebrew · H3318
יָצָא
To go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
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יָצָא H3318
Pronunciation yāṣāʾ
What does יָצָא (yāṣāʾ) mean in the Bible?
יָצָא is a very common Hebrew verb meaning to go out, come out, depart, emerge, or, in causative forms, bring out. The local Hebrew index currently counts about 1,076 occurrences.
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Questions this entry answers
How does the BSB render H3318?
The BSB source-word alignment has 1,068 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include went out (55), came out (39), . . . (26), go out (22), Come out (13).
Where does יָצָא (yāṣāʾ) appear in Scripture?
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 1:12. Its strongest book concentrations include Exodus (94), Genesis (79), Ezekiel (74), Jeremiah (70).
Are there verse guides for יָצָא (yāṣāʾ)?
This entry includes 11 verse guides that explain exact original-language forms in context.
What This Word Actually Means
יָצָא is a very common Hebrew verb meaning to go out, come out, depart, emerge, or, in causative forms, bring out. The local Hebrew index currently counts about 1,076 occurrences. Most uses concern ordinary movement, while some become theologically prominent because of their narrative subject and setting. The verb itself is not a technical term for redemption.
Exodus 20:2 uses the Hiphil when the Lord identifies himself as the God who brought Israel out of Egypt and slavery. The covenant commands follow this declaration of deliverance, so the passage grounds Israel’s obligation in the Lord’s prior saving act. That theological pattern comes from the Exodus narrative, not from a special redemptive meaning embedded in every H3318 occurrence.
Isaiah 52:12 portrays Zion’s departure from Babylon with exodus-like language and says the people will not go out in haste or flight because the Lord will lead and guard them. This is a deliberate new-exodus pattern, but calling it simply “greater than the first” goes beyond the verse. Isaiah 55:11 says the Lord’s word goes out from his mouth and accomplishes his purpose; that promise concerns God’s own word, not an automatic guarantee about every sermon or human interpretation.
Genesis 4:16 says Cain went out from the Lord’s presence into exile. His departure belongs to his judgment and wandering, but not every later departure echoes Cain. Zechariah 14:8 says living waters will go out from Jerusalem in a future vision; the text does not identify that movement as a reversal of Cain’s H3318.
For teaching, יָצָא can help trace ordinary departures, exile, the Exodus, prophetic restoration, effective divine speech, and waters flowing from Jerusalem. Each movement requires its own subject, destination, cause, and canonical setting.
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How the Bible Uses It
יָצָא (yatsa) appears about 1,076 times in the local Hebrew index — a high-frequency Hebrew verb. Its theological center is the exodus formula (YHWH brought Israel out of Egypt, Exod 20:2) repeated throughout Deuteronomy, the Psalms, and the prophets as the covenant preamble. The verb also covers: going out to war (1Sam 8:20), the sun going out (Ps 19:5), the word of YHWH going out (Isa 55:11), exile from YHWH's presence (Gen 4:16), and the eschatological waters going out from Jerusalem (Zech 14:8).
The Hiphil causative (hotsi, to bring out, to lead out) is the exodus form: YHWH is the subject who causes Israel to go out.
- Exod.20.2
“I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
The covenant preamble and the theological center of yatsa: 'I am YHWH your God who brought you out (hetseti) of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.' The Hiphil causative (hetseti, I brought out) makes YHWH the active subject: the exodus was his yatsa, not Israel's achievement. The Ten Commandments rest on this prior act of redemption — YHWH declares who he is before he says what he requires.
This formula becomes the covenant-identity signature repeated throughout the OT: 'YHWH your God who brought you out of Egypt.'
- Isa.52.12
For you will not leave in a hurry nor flee in haste, for the Lord goes before you, and the God of Israel is your rear guard.
The new exodus yatsa: 'you shall not go out (tetse'u) in haste.' Isaiah's second-exodus promise exceeds the first: the flight from Egypt was hurried (Exod 12:33); the return from Babylon will be unhurried, because YHWH again goes before and behind his people. The yatsa of the new exodus is greater than the first precisely because it is not driven by terror — it is led by YHWH. This passage grounds the NT's presentation of Jesus as the new Moses leading the new exodus.
- Isa.55.11
So My word that proceeds from My mouth will not return to Me empty, but it will accomplish what I please, and it will prosper where I send it.
The word of YHWH as yatsa: 'my word that goes out (yatsa) from my mouth shall not return empty.' The word of YHWH has its own yatsa — a purposeful departure that accomplishes its mission. YHWH's word does not merely inform; it goes out and acts. The certainty of the divine yatsa (which brought Israel out of Egypt) is now applied to the divine word: as certain as the exodus yatsa, so certain is the accomplishing yatsa of YHWH's speech.
- Gen.4.16
So Cain went out from the presence of the Lord and settled in the land of Nod, east of Eden.
The negative yatsa: 'Cain went out (vayetse) from the presence of YHWH.' This is the counterpart to the blessed yatsa from Egypt: to yatsa from YHWH's presence is exile, not redemption. Cain's eastward departure from YHWH's face is the pattern of every subsequent exile — the one who goes out from YHWH's presence wanders in the land of wandering (Nod, from the root nud, to wander). The trajectory of the Bible is to reverse Cain's yatsa: to bring wanderers back into the presence of YHWH.
- Zech.14.8
And on that day living water will flow out from Jerusalem, half of it toward the Eastern Sea and the other half toward the Western Sea, in summer and winter alike.
Eschatological yatsa: 'living waters shall go out (yetse'u) from Jerusalem.' The eschatological reversal of Cain's exile: from the city of YHWH, life itself yatsa's to water the whole earth. This is the OT source behind Ezekiel 47:1-12 (the river from the temple) and Revelation 22:1-2 (the river of the water of life flowing from the throne of God and the Lamb). The divine yatsa that began with the exodus ends with living water going out from Jerusalem to the whole creation.
Source Word Evidence
BSB source-word alignment connects this entry to exact verse rows, English rendering, source form, transliteration, and parsing.
How English Renders It went out 55× Genesis 4:16, Genesis 14:17, Genesis 19:14, Genesis 24:63
came out 39× Genesis 8:18, Genesis 8:19, Genesis 24:15, Genesis 25:26
. . . 26× Genesis 8:7, Genesis 27:30, Genesis 39:15, Exodus 1:5
go out 22× Deuteronomy 28:6, Deuteronomy 28:19, Joshua 8:17, Judges 9:38
Come out 13× Genesis 8:16, Numbers 12:4, Joshua 6:10, Judges 9:15
who could serve 13× Numbers 1:20, Numbers 1:22, Numbers 1:24, Numbers 1:26
marched out 11× Genesis 14:8, Numbers 33:3, 1 Samuel 18:5, 2 Samuel 2:12
out 11× Genesis 43:23, Exodus 3:12, Exodus 6:26, Numbers 20:10
and went out 10× Numbers 21:23, Judges 3:10, 1 Kings 19:13, 2 Kings 4:21
brought you out 10× Exodus 13:3, Exodus 13:9, Exodus 20:2, Numbers 15:41
has gone out 9× Ruth 1:13, 2 Samuel 5:24, 1 Chronicles 14:15, Psalms 19:4
leave 9× Genesis 31:13, Genesis 42:15, Exodus 12:31, Leviticus 21:12
- 8× Joshua 18:15, Judges 6:8, 2 Samuel 16:11, 2 Samuel 20:7
came 8× Genesis 10:14, Genesis 34:6, Leviticus 9:24, Judges 14:14
Bring out 7× Genesis 8:17, Joshua 2:3, Judges 6:30, Judges 19:22
brought 7× Exodus 12:51, Exodus 19:17, Leviticus 19:36, Leviticus 26:13
coming out 7× Genesis 24:45, Judges 1:24, Judges 9:43, Judges 11:34
Go 7× Exodus 11:8, 1 Kings 2:36, 1 Kings 8:44, 1 Kings 22:22
had left 7× Genesis 27:30, Exodus 8:12, Exodus 19:1, 2 Samuel 3:26
left 7× Genesis 28:10, Genesis 41:46, Exodus 8:30, 2 Samuel 11:8
and go out 6× Genesis 27:3, Exodus 17:9, Jeremiah 31:4, Ezekiel 12:12
come 6× Judges 9:20, 1 Samuel 2:3, Psalms 17:2, Lamentations 3:38
he went out 6× Exodus 2:11, Numbers 22:36, 1 Kings 12:25, 2 Kings 4:18
will go forth 6× 2 Kings 19:31, Isaiah 2:3, Isaiah 37:32, Jeremiah 21:12
I brought 5× Exodus 12:17, Leviticus 25:42, Leviticus 25:55, 2 Chronicles 6:5
to bring 5× Exodus 3:10, Exodus 6:13, 1 Chronicles 19:16, Job 28:11
will go out 5× Numbers 27:17, Numbers 27:21, Ezekiel 30:9, Ezekiel 39:9
after they had come out 4× Deuteronomy 4:45, Deuteronomy 4:46, 1 Kings 8:9, 2 Chronicles 5:10
bring 4× Exodus 3:11, Deuteronomy 14:28, Psalms 143:11, Proverbs 25:8
came forward 4× 1 Kings 22:21, 2 Chronicles 18:20, Zechariah 2:3, Zechariah 5:5
departed 4× Exodus 9:33, 2 Samuel 24:4, 1 Chronicles 21:4, Psalms 114:1
set out 4× 2 Samuel 15:16, 2 Samuel 15:17, 2 Kings 3:6, 2 Kings 9:21
to go out 4× Judges 19:27, Judges 20:14, 1 Samuel 8:20, 1 Kings 3:7
went 4× Genesis 19:6, Numbers 31:13, 1 Samuel 9:26, Ezekiel 47:3
who brought you out 4× Leviticus 22:33, Deuteronomy 8:14, Deuteronomy 13:5, Deuteronomy 13:10
You brought 4× Exodus 32:11, Deuteronomy 9:12, Nehemiah 9:15, Jeremiah 32:21
you came out 4× Exodus 13:3, Exodus 23:15, Exodus 34:18, Micah 7:15
and brings forth 3× Psalms 135:7, Jeremiah 10:13, Jeremiah 51:16
and brought out 3× Deuteronomy 9:26, Joshua 6:23, Jeremiah 50:25
and come out 3× Judges 9:29, 2 Kings 18:31, Isaiah 36:16
away 3× Genesis 45:1, 2 Samuel 13:9, Ezra 10:19
Bring her out 3× Genesis 38:24, 2 Kings 11:15, 2 Chronicles 23:14
brought out 3× Genesis 14:18, Genesis 24:53, Numbers 17:9
brought us out 3× Exodus 13:14, Exodus 13:16, Deuteronomy 6:21
escape 3× Psalms 88:8, Jeremiah 11:11, Lamentations 3:7
Get out 3× Genesis 19:14, 2 Samuel 16:7
go forth 3× Psalms 44:9, Ezekiel 9:7, Hosea 6:5
go outside 3× Leviticus 8:33, Leviticus 10:7, Job 31:34
goes forth 3× Psalms 104:23, Isaiah 42:13, Habakkuk 1:4
had come out 3× Numbers 16:27, Numbers 33:38, 1 Samuel 23:15
has come out 3× Numbers 22:5, Numbers 22:11, 1 Samuel 26:20
He brought 3× Deuteronomy 8:15, 2 Kings 23:6, Psalms 78:16
march out 3× 2 Kings 24:7, Psalms 60:10, Psalms 108:11
proceeds 3× 1 Samuel 24:13, Psalms 73:7, Isaiah 55:11
that juts out 3× Nehemiah 3:25, Nehemiah 3:26, Nehemiah 3:27
who brought 3× Exodus 6:7, Exodus 16:6, 1 Samuel 12:8
who came out 3× Genesis 9:18, Numbers 26:4, Joshua 5:4
will go 3× Exodus 11:4, Jeremiah 48:7, Zechariah 14:2
you left 3× Deuteronomy 9:7, Deuteronomy 16:3
[anyone] from leaving 2× 1 Kings 15:17, 2 Chronicles 16:1
[David] brought out 2× 2 Samuel 12:31, 1 Chronicles 20:3
after they had left 2× Exodus 16:1, Joshua 5:4
and bring 2× Exodus 7:5, Deuteronomy 21:19
and came out 2× Joshua 16:7, 2 Samuel 11:23
And David took 2× 2 Samuel 12:30, 1 Chronicles 20:2
and departed 2× Genesis 47:10, 1 Samuel 23:13
and go 2× Jeremiah 19:2, Jeremiah 37:4
and he went out 2× 1 Kings 2:46, 2 Chronicles 28:9
and left 2× Exodus 10:6, 2 Chronicles 20:20
and ran 2× Genesis 39:12, Joshua 19:34
and take me out 2× 1 Kings 22:34, 2 Chronicles 18:33
and they went out 2× Exodus 15:22, Jeremiah 39:4
and when he took it out 2× Exodus 4:6, Exodus 4:7
are coming out 2× Genesis 24:13, 1 Samuel 14:11
are to go out 2× Exodus 16:4, 1 Samuel 28:1
bring forth 2× Genesis 1:24, Isaiah 42:3
brings forth 2× Proverbs 30:33, Isaiah 61:11
brought them out 2× Exodus 29:46, Numbers 23:22
brought you 2× Genesis 15:7, Leviticus 25:38
comes 2× Judges 13:14, Isaiah 28:29
comes forth 2× Micah 1:3, Nahum 1:11
comes out 2× Genesis 24:43, Judges 11:31
depart 2× Isaiah 49:17, Jeremiah 50:8
exported them 2× 1 Kings 10:29, 2 Chronicles 1:17
extended 2× Exodus 37:18, Joshua 16:1
fell 2× 1 Chronicles 24:7, 1 Chronicles 25:9
fit for service 2× 1 Chronicles 12:33, 1 Chronicles 12:36
followed 2× 2 Samuel 11:8, Habakkuk 3:5
from 2× Deuteronomy 25:17, Job 15:13
goes out 2× Exodus 8:20, Joshua 2:19
gone 2× Genesis 44:4, Judges 4:14
had gone out 2× 1 Samuel 13:23, 2 Kings 5:2
has 2× Leviticus 15:32, Leviticus 22:4
He brought me out 2× 2 Samuel 22:20, Psalms 18:19
He brought them out 2× Exodus 32:12, Psalms 107:14
he has set out 2× 2 Kings 19:9, Isaiah 37:9
I brought out 2× Leviticus 26:45, Ezekiel 12:7
I brought them out 2× Jeremiah 11:4, Jeremiah 34:13
I had brought them out 2× Ezekiel 20:14, Ezekiel 20:22
I will bring 2× Exodus 7:4, Ezekiel 20:34
I will bring them out 2× Ezekiel 20:38, Ezekiel 34:13
I will go out 2× 1 Kings 22:22, 2 Chronicles 18:21
Let me bring 2× Genesis 19:8, Judges 6:18
let us go out 2× 1 Samuel 20:11, 1 Kings 20:31
march out to war 2× 2 Samuel 11:1, 1 Chronicles 20:1
must go out 2× Ezekiel 46:9
one came out 2× Genesis 25:25, Genesis 38:28
out of 2× Deuteronomy 23:4, Job 20:25
proceeded 2× Joshua 15:3, Joshua 15:9
released 2× Leviticus 25:31, Jeremiah 20:3
sank 2× Genesis 42:28, Song Of Solomon 5:6
spread 2× 2 Chronicles 26:15, Ezekiel 16:14
that extend 2× Exodus 25:33, Exodus 25:35
that extended 2× Exodus 37:19, Exodus 37:21
Then he shall go out 2× Leviticus 16:18, Ezekiel 46:12
They brought out 2× Joshua 6:23, 2 Kings 10:26
they came out 2× Numbers 33:1, 1 Samuel 30:21
they come out 2× Joshua 8:5, 2 Kings 7:12
they have marched out 2× 1 Kings 20:18
those going off duty 2× 2 Kings 11:9, 2 Chronicles 23:8
to bring them 2× Exodus 12:42, Ezekiel 20:6
to go 2× Deuteronomy 23:12, 2 Samuel 13:39
to take 2× Exodus 12:46, Jeremiah 39:14
vvv 2× Genesis 34:24, Joshua 5:5
was gone 2× Genesis 44:28, Judges 3:24
when you came out 2× Joshua 2:10, Haggai 2:5
when You went out 2× Judges 5:4, Psalms 68:7
who can serve 2× Numbers 1:3, Numbers 26:2
who had come out 2× Joshua 5:5, Joshua 5:6
who went out 2× Genesis 34:24, Numbers 31:27
will be brought out 2× Jeremiah 38:22, Jeremiah 38:23
will come forth 2× Proverbs 25:4, Micah 5:2
withdrew 2× Exodus 35:20, 2 Chronicles 16:2
yields 2× Proverbs 30:33, Haggai 1:11
you go out 2× Deuteronomy 20:1, 1 Kings 2:37
you will leave 2× Jeremiah 2:37, Micah 4:10
your going out 2× 2 Kings 19:27, Isaiah 37:28
your own offspring 2× 1 Kings 8:19, 2 Chronicles 6:9
[a man] came 1× Ecclesiastes 5:15
[able] to serve 1× 2 Chronicles 25:5
[all] surrendered 1× 2 Kings 24:12
[and] He will bring 1× Isaiah 42:1
[but] has gone forth 1× Jeremiah 22:11
[Israel] marched out 1× Judges 2:15
[Jehu] went out 1× 2 Kings 10:9
[Moses] left 1× Exodus 11:8
[Moses] went out 1× Exodus 2:13
[Nebuchadnezzar] also carried off 1× 2 Kings 24:13
[or] taken out 1× 1 Chronicles 9:28
[that] comes 1× Job 37:2
[the youth] has come 1× Ecclesiastes 4:14
[Uriah] went out 1× 2 Samuel 11:13
able to come 1× Deuteronomy 31:2
advance 1× Proverbs 30:27
after [Israel] had come out 1× Numbers 9:1
after [the Israelites] had come out 1× Numbers 1:1
after you came out 1× Deuteronomy 24:9
also brought out 1× Ezra 1:7
and [Elisha] went out 1× 2 Kings 2:21
And [the LORD] took 1× Genesis 15:5
And after they had gone out 1× Judges 9:27
And as Gehazi left 1× 2 Kings 5:27
and as he approached 1× 2 Samuel 16:5
and bring it out 1× 1 Kings 17:13
and bring out 1× Joshua 6:22
and bring you out 1× Ezekiel 38:4
and brings 1× Job 12:22
and brought 1× Deuteronomy 4:20
and brought them out 1× Judges 6:19
and brought us 1× Numbers 20:16
and brought you 1× Deuteronomy 4:37
and came back out 1× Genesis 43:31
and carried [them] 1× 2 Chronicles 29:16
and carry 1× Leviticus 6:11
and carry [your belongings] 1× Ezekiel 12:5
And David 1× 1 Chronicles 12:17
and extended 1× Joshua 18:15
and forges 1× Isaiah 54:16
and gives her 1× Deuteronomy 22:14
and going 1× Psalms 121:8
and He brought me out 1× Ezekiel 37:1
and He brought them 1× Psalms 107:28
and he shall go out 1× Ezekiel 46:8
and he will depart 1× Jeremiah 43:12
and he will go out 1× Daniel 11:44
and he will have it brought 1× Numbers 19:3
And I sent 1× Ezra 8:17
and I will bring 1× Exodus 6:6
And I will bring forth 1× Isaiah 65:9
and I will draw 1× Ezekiel 21:3
and let them go 1× Jeremiah 15:1
and met 1× 2 Kings 9:21
and must be released 1× Leviticus 25:33
and out 1× Jeremiah 17:19
and out toward 1× Joshua 16:6
and proceeded 1× Joshua 18:17
and released him 1× Jeremiah 52:31
and sent her 1× Judges 19:25
and set out 1× Genesis 12:5
And she brought out 1× Ruth 2:18
and speak 1× Job 8:10
and take them out 1× Ezekiel 12:6
and taken 1× Leviticus 14:45
and the one that marches out 1× Amos 5:3
and then depart 1× Ezekiel 46:2
and they brought out 1× 2 Chronicles 29:16
And they came out 1× Numbers 20:20
and they came out together 1× 1 Samuel 11:7
and they escaped 1× 2 Kings 13:5
And they led them 1× Genesis 19:16
and they paid 1× 2 Kings 12:12
and they relayed 1× Nehemiah 6:19
and they set out 1× Genesis 11:31
and they took 1× Leviticus 24:23
and traveled 1× Judges 11:3
and went 1× Joshua 19:12
and went away 1× Genesis 34:26
And when he came out 1× Exodus 34:34
and when they leave 1× Ezekiel 46:10
and whoever spreads 1× Proverbs 10:18
and you will go out 1× Malachi 4:2
approaching 1× Zechariah 5:9
are leaving 1× Exodus 13:4
are marching out 1× 1 Kings 20:17
are to be released 1× Leviticus 25:41
are to extend 1× Exodus 25:32
as I came 1× Job 3:11
As soon as the men had brought 1× Genesis 19:17
As they go forth 1× Isaiah 66:24
As they set out 1× 2 Chronicles 20:20
as they went 1× Ezekiel 10:19
As they went out 1× 2 Chronicles 20:21
at the end 1× Exodus 23:16
be sent 1× Deuteronomy 24:5
been removed 1× Ezekiel 24:12
billows 1× Job 41:20
breaks out 1× Exodus 22:6
bring them 1× Ezekiel 46:20
bringing forth 1× Psalms 104:14
brings 1× Deuteronomy 24:11
brought forth 1× Deuteronomy 14:22
brought him 1× Numbers 24:8
brought them 1× 2 Chronicles 7:22
brought us 1× Deuteronomy 26:8
But He brought 1× Deuteronomy 6:23
but I will remove you 1× Ezekiel 11:7
but whoever goes out 1× Jeremiah 21:9
but whoever surrenders 1× Jeremiah 38:2
but You brought us 1× Psalms 66:12
by bringing out 1× Numbers 14:36
by bringing them 1× Ezekiel 20:9
by bringing us out 1× Exodus 14:11
by your demise 1× Ezekiel 26:18
came forth 1× Numbers 16:35
came out [for battle] 1× 1 Samuel 18:30
Can you bring forth 1× Job 38:32
charged out 1× 1 Samuel 7:11
come forth 1× Jeremiah 46:9
come off 1× Ezekiel 24:6
comes from 1× Genesis 15:4
coming 1× 1 Samuel 9:14
continue 1× Numbers 34:9
David led 1× 1 Samuel 18:13
departs 1× Psalms 146:4
descended 1× 1 Chronicles 2:53
did I come out 1× Jeremiah 20:18
did You bring me 1× Job 10:18
do you come out 1× 1 Samuel 17:8
draws 1× Proverbs 30:33
each must go out 1× Ezekiel 46:9
emerge 1× Job 38:29
emerged 1× Daniel 8:9
emerging 1× Psalms 19:5
emptied 1× Judges 3:22
Empty 1× Ezekiel 24:6
escapes 1× Proverbs 12:13
ever goes outside 1× Numbers 35:26
exacted 1× 2 Kings 15:20
falls 1× Numbers 33:54
fell to him 1× 1 Chronicles 26:14
Finally, they went on 1× 2 Samuel 24:7
fit 1× 1 Chronicles 7:11
flashed 1× Ezekiel 1:13
flesh and blood 1× 2 Kings 20:18
flowed out 1× Genesis 2:10
flowing 1× Ezekiel 47:1
flows out 1× Ezekiel 47:8
flows to them 1× Ezekiel 47:12
follow 1× Song Of Solomon 1:8
followed her 1× Exodus 15:20
for anyone who came 1× Zechariah 8:10
for going out 1× Joshua 14:11
for those who had gone 1× Numbers 31:36
for travelers 1× 2 Chronicles 15:5
for you to work 1× Ruth 2:22
Free 1× Psalms 142:7
free me 1× Psalms 25:17
Get them out 1× Genesis 19:12
going forth 1× Zechariah 6:5
going into captivity 1× Psalms 144:14
going out 1× 1 Samuel 17:55
gone out 1× Numbers 11:26
grow 1× Job 31:40
growing 1× 1 Kings 4:33
gushed out 1× Numbers 20:11
had been brought out 1× Ezekiel 38:8
had been exiled 1× Jeremiah 29:2
had brought 1× Exodus 18:1
had carried away 1× Ezra 1:7
had come 1× 1 Kings 6:1
had marched out 1× 1 Kings 20:39
had passed 1× 2 Chronicles 21:19
had risen 1× Genesis 19:23
had them brought out 1× Ezra 1:8
has brought forth 1× Jeremiah 51:10
has come 1× Numbers 16:46
has departed 1× Lamentations 1:6
has gone forth 1× Jeremiah 48:45
has spread 1× Jeremiah 23:15
have arisen 1× Deuteronomy 13:13
have come out 1× Numbers 22:32
have departed from me 1× Jeremiah 10:20
have gone forth 1× Daniel 10:20
have taken 1× Ezekiel 21:5
He brought [Israel] out 1× Psalms 105:37
he came out 1× Exodus 34:34
he charges 1× Job 39:21
he comes forth 1× Job 14:2
he goes 1× Psalms 41:6
he goes out 1× Ezekiel 46:12
He has brought them out 1× Deuteronomy 9:28
He has brought us out 1× Deuteronomy 1:27
He has left 1× Jeremiah 4:7
he has promised 1× Numbers 30:2
he is to leave alone 1× Exodus 21:3
He leads 1× Psalms 68:6
He leads forth 1× Isaiah 40:26
he leaves 1× Leviticus 16:17
he led me out 1× Ezekiel 42:15
he left 1× 1 Chronicles 21:21
he must leave 1× Deuteronomy 23:10
he must take 1× Leviticus 4:12
he shall go 1× Exodus 21:2
he shall leave 1× Ezekiel 46:10
he went 1× 2 Kings 18:7
he went forth 1× Genesis 10:11
He will bring forth 1× Psalms 37:6
He will bring me 1× Micah 7:9
he would surely come out 1× 2 Kings 5:11
his direct descendants 1× Genesis 46:26
however, it is to be released 1× Leviticus 25:28
I brought you out 1× Joshua 24:5
I came 1× Job 1:21
I came out 1× Proverbs 7:15
I go out 1× Jeremiah 14:18
I have come 1× Daniel 9:22
I took [my belongings] out 1× Ezekiel 12:7
I went 1× 1 Samuel 17:35
I will bring you 1× Ezekiel 11:9
I will come forth 1× Job 23:10
I will depart 1× Exodus 11:8
I will escape 1× Judges 16:20
I will make him spew out 1× Jeremiah 51:44
I will send it out 1× Zechariah 5:4
If, after leaving 1× Deuteronomy 24:2
in order to bring 1× Exodus 6:27
in your journeys 1× Deuteronomy 33:18
is 1× Habakkuk 1:4
is approaching 1× Zechariah 5:5
is born prematurely 1× Exodus 21:22
is coming 1× Isaiah 26:21
is going 1× Zechariah 6:6
is going forth 1× Zechariah 5:6
is on the way 1× Isaiah 51:5
is released 1× Leviticus 27:21
is spreading 1× Jeremiah 25:32
is to come out 1× Judges 21:21
is to go 1× Leviticus 14:3
is to leave 1× Exodus 21:3
it comes out 1× Numbers 11:20
it extended 1× Joshua 19:13
It kept flying back and forth 1× Genesis 8:7
It went on 1× Joshua 16:2
lay 1× Joshua 18:11
leave you 1× Exodus 8:29
left him 1× Judges 3:19
let anyone 1× 2 Kings 9:15
let him issue 1× Esther 1:19
let it go out 1× Isaiah 48:20
let me bring out 1× Judges 19:24
let us go 1× Song Of Solomon 7:11
march 1× 1 Samuel 11:7
marched 1× 2 Samuel 18:6
marched out first 1× 1 Kings 20:17
marched out of 1× 2 Samuel 20:7
may come 1× Job 28:5
may leave 1× Exodus 16:29
me 1× Joshua 10:22
messengers to bring 1× 2 Samuel 10:16
move out 1× 1 Chronicles 14:15
moved away 1× Ezekiel 10:18
must be taken 1× Leviticus 16:27
must come out 1× Deuteronomy 21:2
Next he brought me out 1× Ezekiel 47:2
of his own 1× Judges 8:30
of them had stepped forward 1× Numbers 12:5
of them out 1× Deuteronomy 22:24
of them went out 1× 1 Samuel 20:11
on his way 1× Exodus 4:14
or exits 1× Exodus 28:35
or we will come out 1× Numbers 20:18
out came 1× Exodus 32:24
passing 1× Joshua 19:27
pierced 1× 2 Kings 9:24
pour 1× Job 41:21
produced 1× Genesis 1:12
put forth 1× Numbers 17:8
Remove 1× 2 Chronicles 29:5
removed [his sons] 1× Genesis 48:12
Send them out 1× Genesis 19:5
sent out 1× 2 Chronicles 23:14
shall be brought 1× Deuteronomy 22:21
shall be released 1× Leviticus 25:54
shall bring 1× Deuteronomy 22:15
shall descend 1× Genesis 35:11
shall go free 1× Exodus 21:4
shall go out 1× Exodus 12:22
shall go outside 1× Leviticus 14:38
shall we go 1× Jeremiah 15:2
she is free to go 1× Exodus 21:11
she left 1× Ruth 1:7
she went 1× 2 Kings 8:3
shine like 1× Judges 5:31
shines 1× Isaiah 62:1
So he brought out 1× 2 Kings 10:22
So he went out 1× 2 Chronicles 15:2
So I brought them 1× Ezekiel 20:10
So I went out 1× Nehemiah 2:13
So Moses left 1× Exodus 10:18
so that I may lead 1× 2 Chronicles 1:10
So they gave 1× Numbers 13:32
so they have left 1× 2 Kings 7:12
So they took him 1× 1 Kings 21:13
So they went out 1× Ezekiel 9:7
soon as they 1× Joshua 2:7
spoke 1× Job 26:4
spreading 1× Job 8:16
spring 1× Job 5:6
started to leave 1× Jeremiah 37:12
starting 1× Ezekiel 21:19
stay 1× 1 Samuel 22:3
stepped forward 1× 2 Samuel 20:8
stretch out 1× Jeremiah 31:39
surrender 1× Jeremiah 38:18
Take 1× Leviticus 24:14
that came out 1× Genesis 9:10
that comes 1× Deuteronomy 28:57
that extends 1× Numbers 21:13
that flow 1× Deuteronomy 8:7
that has come 1× Ezekiel 33:30
that he might bring me out 1× Genesis 40:14
that is going out 1× Zechariah 5:3
that marches out 1× Amos 5:3
that proceeds 1× Ecclesiastes 10:5
that went out 1× 2 Chronicles 26:11
that would go off duty 1× 2 Kings 11:7
that you should march in and out 1× 1 Samuel 29:6
the one who led 1× 1 Chronicles 11:2
the poor go 1× Job 24:5
The rising 1× Isaiah 13:10
Then [Jehoiada and his sons] brought out 1× 2 Chronicles 23:11
Then [Jehoiada] brought out 1× 2 Kings 11:12
Then he brought me 1× Ezekiel 46:21
Then he is to take 1× Leviticus 4:21
Then he left 1× Genesis 31:33
Then he must go out 1× Leviticus 16:24
Then he will bring forth 1× Zechariah 4:7
Then it will go on 1× Numbers 34:4
Then take him out 1× 1 Kings 21:10
Then the man led me out 1× Ezekiel 42:1
They brought 1× Jeremiah 26:23
they came 1× Isaiah 48:3
they derive 1× Habakkuk 1:7
they leave 1× Job 39:4
They left 1× Jeremiah 39:4
They marched out 1× 1 Kings 20:16
they proceed 1× Jeremiah 9:3
They will come out 1× Ezekiel 14:22
they will depart 1× Genesis 15:14
They will march out 1× Deuteronomy 28:7
They will pursue us 1× Joshua 8:6
This is from 1× Genesis 24:50
this man has given 1× Deuteronomy 22:19
those going 1× Zechariah 6:8
Though they may have escaped 1× Ezekiel 15:7
threw 1× 2 Samuel 13:18
to be released 1× Leviticus 25:30
to bring him out 1× Ezekiel 12:12
to come out 1× 2 Chronicles 21:15
to do 1× Jeremiah 44:17
to get out 1× 2 Chronicles 26:20
to go forth 1× 1 Samuel 23:13
to go free 1× Exodus 21:7
to lead them 1× Jeremiah 31:32
to produce 1× Exodus 8:18
to remove 1× 2 Kings 23:4
to remove them 1× Amos 6:10
to send away 1× Ezra 10:3
to surrender 1× Jeremiah 38:21
to utter 1× Ecclesiastes 5:2
took 1× Numbers 15:36
took charge 1× Genesis 41:45
Uzziah went out 1× 2 Chronicles 26:6
vents 1× Proverbs 29:11
walking out 1× Exodus 7:15
want to go 1× Exodus 21:5
want to leave 1× Deuteronomy 15:16
warriors 1× 1 Chronicles 5:18
was being brought out 1× Genesis 38:25
was going out 1× 1 Kings 11:29
was leading them out to battle 1× 1 Samuel 18:16
was lost 1× Joshua 19:47
was marching out 1× 1 Samuel 17:20
was sober 1× 1 Samuel 25:37
we left 1× Joshua 9:12
we will come out 1× 1 Samuel 11:10
we will surrender 1× 1 Samuel 11:3
went forth 1× Zechariah 2:3
went on 1× Joshua 15:11
went out to greet 1× Judges 4:18
went out to meet 1× Exodus 18:7
were cleared of the charge 1× 1 Samuel 14:41
were imported 1× 2 Chronicles 9:28
what they had brought 1× Exodus 12:39
what you have promised 1× Numbers 32:24
when He brought 1× Deuteronomy 29:25
when He brought them out 1× 1 Kings 8:21
when he comes out 1× Numbers 12:12
when he left 1× Genesis 12:4
when he went out 1× Psalms 81:5
When I bring 1× Ezekiel 20:41
When I brought 1× Joshua 24:6
when I brought them out 1× Leviticus 23:43
when I brought you 1× Exodus 16:32
when I came out 1× Exodus 13:8
When I have left 1× Exodus 9:29
when I set out 1× 1 Samuel 21:5
When I went out 1× Job 29:7
when the women went out 1× Genesis 24:11
When they came out 1× Leviticus 9:23
when they departed 1× Psalms 105:38
When they go out 1× Ezekiel 44:19
When they had brought 1× Joshua 10:24
When they left 1× Exodus 5:20
when You brought 1× 1 Kings 8:53
when you need to clear it out 1× Leviticus 26:10
wherever he goes 1× 2 Kings 11:8
which has marched out 1× Jeremiah 37:7
While they were bringing out 1× 2 Chronicles 34:14
who brings out 1× Isaiah 43:17
who brought him 1× Nehemiah 9:7
who came 1× Deuteronomy 2:23
who frees me from 1× 2 Samuel 22:49
who had brought out 1× Numbers 14:37
who had brought them 1× Judges 2:12
who have descended 1× Isaiah 48:1
who in turn would pay 1× 2 Kings 12:11
who led Israel out 1× 2 Samuel 5:2
who ventures out 1× Jeremiah 5:6
who went 1× Numbers 31:28
who were marching out 1× Exodus 14:8
who will be brought out 1× Ezekiel 14:22
will arise 1× Jeremiah 30:21
will be 1× Ezekiel 21:4
will be removed 1× Jeremiah 8:1
will become known 1× Esther 1:17
will break out 1× Jeremiah 4:4
will bring out 1× Hosea 9:13
will come 1× 2 Samuel 7:12
will come out 1× Exodus 17:6
will depart 1× Proverbs 22:10
will descend 1× Genesis 17:6
will flow 1× Joel 3:18
will flow out 1× Zechariah 14:8
will follow 1× Ecclesiastes 7:18
will free 1× Psalms 25:15
will go out from Me 1× Isaiah 51:4
will lead them out 1× Numbers 27:17
will march out 1× Daniel 11:11
will proceed 1× Jeremiah 30:19
will spread 1× Ezekiel 5:4
will spring 1× Isaiah 14:29
will spring up 1× Isaiah 11:1
will surely march out 1× 2 Samuel 18:2
with her last 1× Genesis 35:18
would go 1× Exodus 33:7
yet they had to leave 1× Ezekiel 36:20
you are encamped 1× Deuteronomy 23:9
You brought out 1× Deuteronomy 9:29
You brought us out 1× Deuteronomy 9:28
you came 1× Genesis 24:5
you departed 1× Deuteronomy 16:6
You free me 1× Psalms 31:4
you go 1× Deuteronomy 21:10
you have brought 1× Exodus 16:3
you have come 1× Deuteronomy 11:10
you have said 1× Judges 11:36
you indeed surrender 1× Jeremiah 38:17
you leave 1× 1 Kings 2:42
you must bring out 1× Deuteronomy 17:5
you speak 1× Jeremiah 15:19
You went forth 1× Habakkuk 3:13
you were born 1× Jeremiah 1:5
You will bring out 1× Numbers 20:8
You will go out 1× Amos 4:3
You will march out 1× Deuteronomy 28:25
You will sow 1× Deuteronomy 28:38
Show sample aligned rows
Genesis 1:12 וַתּוֹצֵ֨א to produced Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular Genesis 1:24 תּוֹצֵ֨א to bring forth Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular Genesis 2:10 יֹצֵ֣א to flowed out Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Genesis 4:16 וַיֵּ֥צֵא to went out Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Genesis 8:7 וַיֵּצֵ֤א to It kept flying back and forth Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Genesis 8:7 יָצוֹא֙ to . . . Verb - Qal - Infinitive absolute Genesis 8:16 צֵ֖א to Come out Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular Genesis 8:17 הוֹצֵא to Bring out Verb - Hifil - Imperative - masculine singular Genesis 8:18 וַיֵּ֖צֵא־ to came out Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular Genesis 8:19 יָצְא֖וּ to came out Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Usage map
A compact distribution from source-word alignment before the full evidence tables.
First aligned row Genesis 1:12
Aligned rows 1,068
Books represented 37
Genesis 79 Exodus 94 Leviticus 38 Numbers 70 Deuteronomy 66 Joshua 53 Judges 54 Ruth 4 1 Samuel 46 2 Samuel 47 1 Kings 42 2 Kings 52 1 Chronicles 24 2 Chronicles 49 Ezra 6 Nehemiah 10 Esther 9 Job 28 Psalms 35 Proverbs 11 Ecclesiastes 5 Song Of Solomon 4 Isaiah 40 Jeremiah 70 Lamentations 3 Ezekiel 74 Daniel 7 Hosea 2 Joel 2 Amos 4 Jonah 1 Micah 8 Nahum 1 Habakkuk 5 Haggai 2 Zechariah 22 Malachi 1
Source forms
וַיֵּצֵ֥א 28x way·yê·ṣê Genesis 24:63, Genesis 28:10, Genesis 39:12, Genesis 39:15
וַיֵּצֵ֣א 21x way·yê·ṣê Genesis 14:17, Genesis 42:28, Exodus 2:11, Numbers 11:24
יָצָ֣א 20x yā·ṣā Genesis 10:11, Genesis 19:23, Genesis 24:50, Genesis 25:26
וַיֵּצֵא֙ 19x way·yê·ṣê Genesis 31:33, Exodus 2:13, Leviticus 24:10, Joshua 18:11
יֹצֵ֥א 16x yō·ṣê Numbers 1:3, Numbers 1:20, Numbers 1:22, Numbers 1:24
וַיֵּצֵ֤א 14x way·yê·ṣê Genesis 8:7, Genesis 25:25, Genesis 41:46, Genesis 44:28
וַיֵּצֵ֨א 12x way·yê·ṣê Genesis 14:8, Genesis 19:14, Exodus 9:33, Exodus 18:7
וַיֵּצֵ֖א 11x way·yê·ṣê Genesis 47:10, Exodus 10:6, Exodus 10:18, Exodus 32:24
Parsing patterns
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular 134x Genesis 4:16, Genesis 8:7, Genesis 8:18, Genesis 14:8
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular 62x Genesis 15:4, Exodus 16:29, Exodus 21:2, Exodus 21:3
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular 51x Genesis 10:11, Genesis 19:23, Genesis 24:50, Genesis 25:26
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine plural 47x Genesis 11:31, Genesis 12:5, Genesis 34:26, Exodus 5:10
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural 43x Genesis 8:19, Genesis 10:14, Genesis 44:4, Exodus 12:41
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular 42x Exodus 16:4, Exodus 34:34, Leviticus 14:3, Leviticus 14:38
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular 30x Genesis 2:10, Exodus 4:14, Exodus 7:15, Exodus 8:20
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular 28x Genesis 15:5, Genesis 24:53, Genesis 43:23, Genesis 48:12
Using This Word Well
Be careful not to...
- The 'going out from Egypt' framework means that biblical redemption is not only from sin in the abstract but from a specific situation of bondage into a new life of covenant service. Apply it with that concreteness.
- Isaiah 55:11's divine word that 'goes out and does not return empty' is a promise about Scripture's efficacy — apply it to faithful biblical teaching rather than to any form of religious activity.
Avoid claiming...
- Do not claim that yatsa is always a spiritually significant departure — it is among the most common Hebrew verbs of motion and most occurrences are ordinary narrative movement.
- Do not use the Exodus going-out to argue for any kind of physical separation from society or culture — the exodus leads Israel to Mount Sinai for covenant formation, then to Canaan for covenant community; it is not a call to withdrawal.
Key Verse and Form Guides
Verse-level guides showing how this original-language form works in its specific context, including grammar, verse function, and guarded interpretation.
Deuteronomy 6:12 Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | second person masculine singular
הוֹצִֽיאֲךָ֛ hō·w·ṣî·’ă·ḵā to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form makes the warning personal: the addressed hearer must not forget the LORD who brought him out of Egypt. Read verse guide Deuteronomy 6:21 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular | first person common plural
וַיּוֹצִיאֵ֧נוּ way·yō·w·ṣî·’ê·nū to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form clarifies that the testimony is not abstract history only; the suffix makes the redeemed community part of the confession. Read verse guide Deuteronomy 8:14 Article | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular construct | second person masculine singular
הַמּוֹצִיאֲךָ֛ ham·mō·w·ṣî·’ă·ḵā to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form clarifies that Deuteronomy 8:14 recalls the LORD as the one who brought Israel out, making forgetfulness a failure to remember redemption. Read verse guide Deuteronomy 8:15 Article | Verb - Hifil - Participle - masculine singular
הַמּוֹצִ֤יא ham·mō·w·ṣî to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form clarifies how the verbal idea relates to the surrounding clause in the rendering "He brought". Read verse guide Genesis 1:12 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person feminine singular
וַתּוֹצֵ֨א wat·tō·w·ṣê to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form clarifies that the earth is the local grammatical subject of the producing action, but the passage frames that action under God's ordering speech. Read verse guide Genesis 1:24 Verb - Hifil - Imperfect Jussive - third person feminine singular
תּוֹצֵ֨א tō·w·ṣê to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form matters because it carries the command in God's speech: the earth is to bring forth living creatures. Read verse guide Genesis 15:4 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
יֵצֵ֣א yê·ṣê to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form clarifies that the Lord's promise turns from a household substitute to a bodily descendant. Read verse guide Genesis 15:5 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Hifil - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
וַיּוֹצֵ֨א way·yō·w·ṣê to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form marks the LORD taking initiative to move Abram into the scene where the promise is pictured by the stars. Read verse guide Genesis 15:7 Verb - Hifil - Perfect - first person common singular | second person masculine singular
הוֹצֵאתִ֙יךָ֙ hō·w·ṣê·ṯî·ḵā to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form anchors the promise in God's own prior action: the Lord brought Abram out and now speaks about giving the land. Read verse guide Genesis 15:14 Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
יֵצְא֖וּ yê·ṣə·’ū to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form helps readers follow the sequence of the promise: service, judgment, then departure with possessions. Read verse guide Jonah 4:5 Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Consecutive imperfect - third person masculine singular
וַיֵּצֵ֤א way·yê·ṣê to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim. The form places Jonah outside the city, preparing the setting where his expectation and God's compassion are exposed. Read verse guide Evidence Summary
Hebrew word. Foundational exit-verb; literal departure expands to birth, emission, utterance, and divine emanation throughout OT narrative.
Source Gloss
to go (causatively, bring ) out , in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively, direct and proxim.
Grammatical Forms
How the stem changes the meaning of this verb across the biblical text.
This verb appears through different tense, voice, mood, or stem patterns. Those forms help readers see how the action is presented in context.
Form groups 3 Aligned forms 491
Qal basic active stem — the word in its most common, direct sense 394×
Imperfect 1Kgs 8:44 · 1Sam 2:3 · 1Sam 24:14 · 2Chr 6:34 · 2Kgs 5:11 · 2Kgs 12:13 · 2Kgs 18:7 · 2Sam 7:12 · Deut 24:5 · Eccl 7:18 · Esth 1:17 · Exod 21:2 · Exod 21:3 · Exod 21:4 · Exod 33:7 · Ezek 44:3 139×
Perfect 1Chr 14:15 · 1Kgs 11:29 · 1Kgs 20:39 · 1Sam 23:15 · 1Sam 24:15 · 1Sam 26:20 · 2Chr 22:7 · 2Kgs 9:11 · 2Kgs 19:9 · 2Kgs 20:4 · 2Sam 5:24 · 2Sam 16:11 · 2Sam 19:20 · 2Sam 20:8 · Dan 8:9 · Dan 9:23 123×
Participle active 1Chr 5:18 · 1Chr 7:11 · 1Chr 12:34 · 1Chr 12:37 · 1Kgs 5:13 · 1Kgs 15:17 · 1Sam 9:11 · 1Sam 9:14 · 1Sam 11:7 · 1Sam 14:11 · 1Sam 17:55 · 1Sam 18:16 · 2Chr 16:1 · 2Chr 23:8 · 2Chr 25:5 · 2Chr 26:11 78×
Sequential imperfect 1Kgs 2:30 · 1Kgs 19:11 · 1Kgs 22:22 · 2Chr 18:21 · 2Chr 26:18 · 2Sam 16:7 · 2Sam 19:8 · Exod 11:8 · Ezek 3:22 · Gen 8:16 · Gen 31:13 · Isa 7:3 · Isa 30:22 · Judg 9:38 · 2Chr 20:17 · 2Chr 24:5 30×
Jussive 1Sam 22:3 · 2Kgs 9:15 · 2Kgs 10:25 · Esth 1:19 · Exod 16:29 · Joel 2:16 · Jer 6:25 · Prov 25:8 9×
Infinitive construct 1Chr 20:1 · 1Kgs 3:7 · 2Chr 21:19 · 2Sam 11:1 · Gen 24:11 · Jer 29:2 · Neh 4:15 7×
Infinitive absolute 2Kgs 5:11 · 2Sam 16:5 · 2Sam 18:2 · Gen 8:7 · Gen 27:30 · Jer 38:17 · Num 35:26 7×
Cohortative Song 7:12 1×
Hiphil causative active — the subject causes someone else to perform the action 94×
Perfect 1Chr 20:2 · 1Chr 20:3 · 1Kgs 9:9 · 2Sam 12:30 · 2Sam 12:31 · Deut 6:23 · Deut 7:8 · Deut 22:19 · Exod 12:51 · Exod 13:3 · Exod 16:6 · Exod 18:1 · Ezek 11:7 · Ezra 1:7 · Gen 14:18 · Jer 51:10 43×
Imperfect Deut 24:11 · Isa 42:1 · Isa 42:3 · Job 28:11 · Lev 16:27 · Prov 29:11 · Prov 30:33 · Ps 25:15 · Deut 14:28 · Deut 28:38 · Exod 12:46 · Ezek 12:6 · Jer 15:19 · Ps 143:11 · 1Kgs 10:29 · 2Chr 1:17 27×
Sequential imperfect 2Kgs 10:22 · Gen 8:17 · Gen 19:12 · Isa 43:8 · Judg 6:30 · Judg 19:22 · Lev 24:14 · 2Kgs 11:15 · 2Sam 13:9 · Exod 6:26 · Gen 45:1 · Josh 2:3 13×
Participle active 2Sam 5:2 · Jer 38:23 · Neh 6:19 · Num 14:37 · Ps 68:7 · Ps 135:7 6×
Infinitive construct Ezek 46:20 · Jer 7:22 2×
Cohortative Gen 19:8 · Judg 19:24 2×
Jussive Gen 1:24 1×
Hophal causative passive — the subject is caused to perform the action 3×
Participle passive Gen 38:25 · Jer 38:22 2×
Perfect Ezek 38:8 1×
Selected Scripture Witnesses
Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Biblical Witnesses
Physical departure or exit, animals and humans leaving the ark after flood
Journey or migration, Abram departing from Ur to travel to Canaan
Divine deliverance or salvation, God leading Israel out from oppression
Emission or expression, fool letting all anger and emotion come out verbally
Exhortation to depart or escape, call for Israel to leave captivity and travel
Showing 5 selected witnesses from 1,076 lexical occurrence verses.
Word Origins
יָצָא is a primitive root - no further derivation.
Part of These Phrases
Compound and idiomatic phrases that include this word. Follow a link to study the phrase and how its parts work together.
For the Preacher and Teacher
יָצָא is ordinary movement language that gains theological weight in particular passages. Exodus 20:2 declares the Lord’s prior deliverance before giving covenant commands. Isaiah 52 depicts restoration from exile, and Isaiah 55 describes God’s word going out and fulfilling his purpose. These texts support a pattern of divine deliverance and effective speech without turning every “going out” into exodus.
Christian proclamation can rightly say that obedience follows God’s saving grace. Colossians 1:13 describes rescue from darkness and transfer into Christ’s kingdom, while Luke 9:31 calls Jesus’ coming death an ἔξοδος. Those explicit texts form a canonical exodus connection. They do not make Colossians a direct H3318 translation or permit every departure image to become a “greater exodus.”
Isaiah 55:11 assures that the Lord’s word accomplishes what he sends it to do. A preacher must still interpret and proclaim that word faithfully; a sermon is not itself guaranteed to accomplish the preacher’s intention merely because it is called a “going out” of God’s word.
Anchor passage
Exod.20.2
Doctrinal connections
- Exod 20:2 — the covenant preamble: YHWH who brought you out of Egypt; the yatsa as covenant identity
- Isa 52:12 — the new exodus yatsa: unhurried, led by YHWH before and behind
- Isa 55:11 — the word of YHWH as yatsa: goes out and does not return empty
- Gen 4:16 — Cain's yatsa from YHWH's presence: exile as the negative counterpart
- Zech 14:8 — eschatological yatsa: living waters going out from Jerusalem
- H935 Bo — to come/enter; the complementary verb: going out and coming in together
יָצָא commonly means to go or come out, depart, emerge, or proceed. The Hiphil often means to bring or lead out. Its broad use includes birth, military movement, exile, speech proceeding from a mouth, water flowing, and geographical departure. English theological terms such as exodus can illuminate selected contexts but should not replace the Hebrew verb’s ordinary range.
From Old to New Testament
Luke 9:31 describes Jesus’ approaching death at Jerusalem as his ἔξοδος, creating an explicit exodus connection within the Transfiguration scene. Colossians 1:13 speaks of rescue from darkness and transfer into the Son’s kingdom, and John 8 speaks of freedom through the Son. These passages develop redemption-from-bondage themes. Hebrews 13:12 emphasizes that Jesus suffered outside the gate in relation to sanctification and the camp imagery developed in the chapter; it does not explicitly echo Israel’s Exodus H3318.
Revelation 22’s river of life and Zechariah 14’s living waters form a meaningful visionary parallel, but the river should not be called the “ultimate yatsa” as though the verb itself reaches fulfillment there.
Passage contextCanonical parallelPastoral application
Sources
MorphGNT Strong's Dictionary XML — CC0 1.0 Public Domain
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible (morphhb/OSHB) — CC BY 4.0
Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon — CC BY 4.0
Berean Standard Bible (BSB) source-word alignment - CC0 Public Domain