Strong’s H3254 · Hebrew

יָסַף
yâçaph
yaw-saf'

Definition

to add or augment (often adverbial, to continue to do a thing)

Etymology

a primitive root;

How the KJV renders it

  • add
  • again
  • any more
  • cease
  • come more
  • conceive again
  • continue
  • exceed
  • further
  • gather together
  • get more
  • give more-over
  • henceforth
  • increase (more and more)
  • join
  • longer (bring
  • do
  • make
  • much
  • put)
  • (the
  • yet) more (and more)
  • proceed (further)
  • prolong
  • put
  • be (strong-) er
  • yet
  • yield

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.