Word study
Forth
13 Hebrew and 1 Greek words behind this English word
The original-language words that the Berean Standard Bible translates with “forth”. English often uses one word where Hebrew or Greek has several, each with its own shade of meaning. Under each word are verses where it is translated this way; choose the word itself for its full study: every verse, how else it is translated, the forms it takes and what the dictionaries say.
At a glance
How often each original word is translated “forth” or one of its forms.
Compare the Hebrew words side by side
Hebrew and Aramaic words (Old Testament)
- יָצָא yâtsâgo or come outtranslated this way 47 times of its 1,035 uses · Strong’s H3318Verb · Translated: brought 108, went 103, go 82, came 78Full study and all 975 verses →
Genesis 1:24 And God said, “Let the earth bring forth living creatures according to their kinds: livestock, land crawlers, and beasts of the earth according to their kinds.” And it was so.
Numbers 16:35 And fire came forth from the LORD and consumed the 250 men who were offering the incense.
- חוּל chûlwhirl, dance, writhetranslated this way 7 times of its 58 uses · Strong’s H2342Verb · Translated: brought forth 6, tremble 5, labor 3, waited 2Full study and all 55 verses →
Job 15:7 Were you the first man ever born? Were you brought forth before the hills?
Psalm 51:5 Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- שָׁלַח shâlachsendtranslated this way 7 times of its 829 uses · Strong’s H7971Verb · Translated: sent 334, send 126, go 43, sending 19Full study and all 783 verses →
- הָלַךְ hâlakgo, come, walktranslated this way 6 times of its 1,461 uses · Strong’s H1980Verb · Translated: go 338, went 173, walk 116, Come 84Full study and all 1,299 verses →
- פָּצַח pâtsachcause to break or burst forth, break forth withtranslated this way 5 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s H6476Verb · Translated: break forth 4, break 1, Break forth in joy 1, burst 1Full study and all 8 verses →
Psalm 98:4 Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth — let your cry ring out, and sing praises!
Isaiah 44:23 Sing for joy, O heavens, for the LORD has done this; shout aloud, O depths of the earth. Break forth in song, O mountains, you forests and all your trees. For the LORD has redeemed Jacob, and revealed His glory in Israel.
- בָּקַע bâqacleave, break open or throughtranslated this way 4 times of its 51 uses · Strong’s H1234Verb · Translated: split 7, breached 4, divided 3, burst forth 2Full study and all 50 verses →
Genesis 7:11 In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, on the seventeenth day of the second month, all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the floodgates of the heavens were opened.
Isaiah 35:6 Then the lame will leap like a deer and the mute tongue will shout for joy. For waters will gush forth in the wilderness, and streams in the desert.
- יָפַע yâphashine out or forth, send out beams, cause to shinetranslated this way 4 times of its 8 uses · Strong’s H3313Verb · Translated: shine forth 2Full study and all 8 verses →
Deuteronomy 33:2 He said: “The LORD came from Sinai and dawned upon us from Seir; He shone forth from Mount Paran and came with myriads of holy ones, with flaming fire at His right hand.
Psalm 50:2 From Zion, perfect in beauty, God shines forth.
- יָלַד yâladbear, bring forth, begettranslated this way 3 times of its 484 uses · Strong’s H3205Verb · Translated: father 111, born 57, bore 52, gave birth 44Full study and all 395 verses →
Genesis 3:16 To the woman He said: “I will sharply increase your pain in childbirth; in pain you will bring forth children. Your desire will be for your husband, and he will rule over you.”
Deuteronomy 32:18 You ignored the Rock who brought you forth; you forgot the God who gave you birth.
- עָשָׂה âsâhdo, maketranslated this way 3 times of its 2,478 uses · Strong’s H6213Verb · Translated: done 292, made 265, make 143, did 112Full study and all 2,206 verses →
Genesis 41:47 During the seven years of abundance, the land brought forth bountifully.
- פָּרַץ pâratsbreak throughtranslated this way 3 times of its 49 uses · Strong’s H6555Verb · Translated: broken 7, break 5, broke 3, spread 2Full study and all 48 verses →
2 Samuel 6:8 Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah. So he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.
1 Chronicles 13:11 Then David became angry because the LORD had burst forth against Uzzah. So he named that place Perez-uzzah, as it is called to this day.
- בָּעַר bâarburn, consumetranslated this way 3 times of its 93 uses · Strong’s H1197Verb · Translated: purge 12, burn 10, burned 7, burning 6Full study and all 90 verses →
2 Samuel 22:9 Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
Psalm 18:8 Smoke rose from His nostrils, and consuming fire came from His mouth; glowing coals blazed forth.
- גִּיחַ gîachburst forthtranslated this way 2 times of its 6 uses · Strong’s H1518Verb · Translated: charged 1, burst forth 1, surges 1, brought me forth 1Full study and all 6 verses →
Job 38:8 Who enclosed the sea behind doors when it burst forth from the womb,
Psalm 22:9 Yet You brought me forth from the womb; You made me secure at my mother’s breast.
- נָבַע nâbaflow, spring, bubble uptranslated this way 2 times of its 11 uses · Strong’s H5042Verb · Translated: pour forth 2Full study and all 11 verses →
Psalm 19:2 Day after day they pour forth speech; night after night they reveal knowledge.
Psalm 119:171 My lips pour forth praise, for You teach me Your statutes.
Greek words (New Testament)
- ἐξέρχομαι exérchomaiI go out, come outtranslated this way 2 times of its 215 uses · Strong’s G1831Verb · Translated: went 56, came 26, left 23, come 23Full study and all 209 verses →
Acts 7:7 ‘But I will punish the nation that enslaves them,’ God said, ‘and afterward they will come forth and worship Me in this place.’
How to study a word well
- Start from the verse, not the dictionary. Find which Hebrew or Greek word stands in the verse you are studying. One English word often translates several different original words.
- Read every place the word is used. A word means what its writers used it to mean. The list of verses and the count by book show its range, and who uses it most.
- Look at how it is translated. A word rendered five different ways has a wider meaning than any one English word can carry.
- Notice the form. A command is not a statement, and a passive verb is something done to the subject. The form in your verse is part of the meaning.
- See what it keeps company with. The words that appear beside it again and again show how the Bible itself connects ideas.
- Then read the dictionaries. They give the considered view of scholars, with their evidence.
- Come back to the verse. Context decides. A word does not carry every one of its meanings into every verse, and where a word came from does not settle what it means in a sentence written centuries later.
Scripture text and translation counts: Berean Standard Bible. Full entry: Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906, public domain), in the digital edition Brown-Driver-Briggs Enhanced by unfoldingWord (Joel Ruark, J. de Joode), based on data by Eliran Wong and Stephen Ku; its additions are used under CC BY 4.0. Strong’s Hebrew Dictionary: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew-to-English verse numbering: original work of the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible available at https://github.com/openscriptures/morphhb, CC BY 4.0. We reformatted the data, linked the references to this site’s Bible text and left out words in other scripts that the source holds only as images. These are historical reference works; an entry gives its authors’ view, and a word’s meaning in any verse depends on how it is used there.