Yea
Yea (yā o yē; 277) , adverb
[Old English ye, ya, ye, ya, Anglo-Saxon geá; akin to OFries. gē, iē, Old Saxon, Dutch, Old High German, German, Danish & Swedish ja, Icel, jā, Gothic ja, jai, and probably to Greek "h^ truly, verily. r188. Compare 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Yes; ay; a word expressing assent, or an affirmative, or an affirmative answer to a question, now superseded by yes.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.
2.
More than this; not only so, but; -- used to mark the addition of a more specific or more emphatic clause. Compare Nay, adv., 2.
I therein do rejoice, yea, and will rejoice.
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?”
Yea , noun
An affirmative vote; one who votes in the affirmative; as, a vote by yeas and nays.
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.”