Category:Yea

Yea (ya or ye; 277), adv. Etym: [oe. ye, ya, ýe, ýa, as. geá; akin to Ofries. g, i, os., D., Ohg., G., Dan. & sw. ja, icel, ja, goth. ja, Jai, and probably to gr. Yes.]

1. Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an Affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes. See yes. Let your communication be yea, yea; nay, nay. Matt. v. 37.

2. More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of A more specific or more emphatic clause. Cf. Nay, adv., 2. I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice. Phil. i. 18.

Note: yea sometimes introduces a clause, with the sense of indeed, Verily, truly. "yea, hath god said, ye shall not eat of every tree of The garden" gen. iii. 1.

Yea Yea, n.

Defn: an affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a Vote by yeas and nays.

Note: in the scriptures, yea is used as a sign of certainty or Stability. "all the promises of god in him are yea, and in him amen." 2 cor. i. 20.