יֵשׁ yesh

Hebrew word for “there” · Strong’s H3426 · used 138 times in 129 verses

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Meaning

1) being, existence, substance, there is or are;

How it is translated

Glosses given for yesh in context, with how often each is used:

• there 107
• ¿ is there 16
• there is 6
• ¿ does there 2
• ¿ are there 2
• there he 2
• there? 2
• substance 1

Where it is used

Also in 13 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Nehemiah 5 (4), Genesis 24 (3), Genesis 39 (3), Genesis 44 (3), 1 Samuel 21 (3), Jeremiah 31 (3), Genesis 33 (2), Genesis 42 (2), Genesis 43 (2), Numbers 9 (2)

Forms

• ישׁ 90
• הישׁ 19
• וישׁ 19
• ישׁנו 4
• ישׁך 3
• ישׁכם 1
• הישׁכם 1
• שׁישׁ 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yesh more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אִם im “if” 34
• אַיִן ayin “nothing” 16
• נִי ni “me” 16
• תִּקְוָה tiqvah “hope” 8
• מָה mah “what?” 14
• אוֹ o “or” 10
• יָדַע yada “to know” 14
• אָח ach “brother” 12
• רָאָה raah “to see” 15
• עַתָּה attah “now” 11
• אֵת et “with” 13
• אָדוֹן adon “lord” 9

Key verses

The verses using yesh that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• 1 Samuel 17:46 — This day will the LORD deliver thee into mine hand; and I will smite thee, and take thine head from thee; and I will give the carcases of the host of the…
• 2 Chronicles 16:9 — For the eyes of the LORD run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to shew himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Herein thou…
• Esther 3:8 — And Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their…
• Psalms 14:2 — The LORD looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
• Proverbs 11:24 — There is that scattereth, and yet increaseth; and there is that withholdeth more than is meet, but it tendeth to poverty.
• Proverbs 12:18 — There is that speaketh like the piercings of a sword: but the tongue of the wise is health.
• Ecclesiastes 5:13 — There is a sore evil which I have seen under the sun, namely, riches kept for the owners thereof to their hurt.
• Isaiah 44:8 — Fear ye not, neither be afraid: have not I told thee from that time, and have declared it? ye are even my witnesses. Is there a God beside me? yea, there is no…
• Jeremiah 5:1 — Run ye to and fro through the streets of Jerusalem, and see now, and know, and seek in the broad places thereof, if ye can find a man, if there be any that…
• Jeremiah 14:22 — Are there any among the vanities of the Gentiles that can cause rain? or can the heavens give showers? art not thou he, O LORD our God? therefore we will wait…
• Micah 2:1 — Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand.
• Malachi 1:14 — But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the Lord a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.