Bible Dictionaries
Yea

　　YEA, adv. Ya.

　　1. Yes a word that expresses affirmation or assent. Will you go? Yea. It sometimes introduces a subject, with the sense of indeed, verily, truly, it is so. Yea, hath God said, ye shall not eat of every tree in the garden? Genesis 3 .

　　Let your communication be yea, yea nay, nay. Matthew 5 .

　　2. It sometimes enforces the sense of something preceding not only so, but more. Therein I do rejoice yea, and will rejoice. Philippians 1 .

　　3. In Scripture, it is used to denote certainty, consistency, harmony, and stability. All the promises of God in him are yea, and in him are amen. 2 Corinthians 1 .

　　In this use, the word may be considered a noun.

　　Yea is used only in the sacred and solemn style. See Yes.