יַצַעyatsaʻ/yaw-tsah'/
HebrewH33314 occurrences (KJV)
to strew as a surface
KJV renders it: make (one's) bed, [idiom] lie, spread.
Where it appears
- Esth 4:3In every province, wherever 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.
- Ps 139:8If I ascend up into heaven, you are there. If I make my bed in Sheol, behold, you are there!
- Isa 14:11Your pomp is brought down to Sheol, with the sound of your stringed instruments. Maggots are spread out under you, and worms cover you.
- Isa 58:5Is this the fast that I have chosen? A day for a man to humble his soul? Is it to bow down his head like a reed, and to spread sackcloth and ashes under himself? Will you call this a fast, and an acceptable day to Yahweh?
Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.