Definition

properly, entity; used only as aparticle of affirmation, there is

Etymology

(Aramaic) corresponding to H3426 (יֵשׁ);

Where the KJV renders it

• art thou
• can
• do ye
• have
• it be
• there is (are)
• we will not

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.

What the first audience heard

A deep-dive treatment of this word is in the works. The featured chapter above carries the long form of what this word meant to its first audience.