יָתַר
yatar · be left, remain
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3498 · appears 107 times in the Bible
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yatar (יָתַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be left, remain”.
Remain, be left over: what is left. In the causative form, leave over, spare; make abound.
How to say it
ya·tar
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- For a part to stay when the rest has gone or been used.
- To spare someone's life, or make plentiful.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
To remain, to be left over: what is left of something; in the causative form, to leave over or to make abound. BDB: to remain over, be left, leave; also to excel, have preeminence. From the same root is יֶתֶר, “rest, remnant” (H3499).
- Being left alone Genesis 32:24
- What is left of the meal or of the offering Exodus 12:10Leviticus 2:3Ruth 2:14
- More than enough: “and more” Exodus 36:7
- What is left after a disaster Isaiah 1:8
- Making abound Deuteronomy 28:11
How we translate it
“Left” 65 times, “rest” 10, “leave” 7, “remain” 6, “who remained” 5, “what remains” 3… “And more” when there is extra (Exodus 36:7). When it is leaving something uneaten, “leave” (Exodus 12:10); in Deuteronomy 28:11, “will make you abound”.
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- left ×65
- rest ×10
- leave ×7
- remain ×6
- who remained ×5
- what remains ×3
- remained ×2
- remaining ×2
- remains ×2
- will make you abound ×2
- others ×3
Related words
Words that come from it
- יֶתֶר yeter · rest; preeminence
- אֶבְיָתָר evyatar · Abiathar
- יֹתֶרֶת yoteret · lobe (of the liver)
- יִתְרוֹן yitron · advantage, gain
- מֵיתָר metar · cord
- יוֹתֵר yoter · more, besides
- יַתִּיר yatir · Jattir
- יִתְרָן yitran · Ithran
- מוֹתָר motar · gain, profit
- הוֹתִיר hotir · Hothir
- יָתוּר yatur · range, searching
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×4
- Exodus×10
- Leviticus×14
- Numbers×2
- Deuteronomy×3
- Joshua×10
- Judges×4
- Ruth×2
- 1 Samuel×4
- 2 Samuel×4
- 1 Kings×9
- 2 Kings×4
- 1 Chronicles×5
- 2 Chronicles×4
- Nehemiah×1
- Psalms×2
- Proverbs×1
- Isaiah×6
- Jeremiah×5
- Ezekiel×9
- Daniel×1
- Amos×1
- Zechariah×2
- Genesis 30:36
And he put a journey of three days between himself and Jacob, while Jacob was pasturing the rest of the flocks of Laban.
- Genesis 32:24
And Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him until the dawn came up.
- Genesis 44:20
And we said to my lord, ‘We have an old father and a young child of his old age; his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loves him.’
- Genesis 49:4
Turbulent as water, you will not have preeminence, because you went up to your father’s bed; then you defiled it; he went up to my couch!
- Exodus 10:15
They covered the surface of all the land, so that the land was darkened, and they ate every plant of the land and all the fruit of the trees that the hail had left; and nothing green remained, neither on the trees nor in the plants of the field, in all the land of Egypt.
- Exodus 12:10
You shall not leave any of it until morning; and what is left of it until morning you shall burn in the fire.
- Exodus 16:19
Moses said to them, “Let no one leave any of it until morning.”
- Exodus 16:20
But they did not listen to Moses; some men left some of it until morning, and it bred worms and stank; and Moses was angry with them.
- Exodus 28:10
six of their names on the one stone, and the names of the remaining six on the second stone, in the order of their birth.
- Exodus 29:34
If any of the flesh of ordination or of the bread remains until the morning, you shall burn what remains with fire; it shall not be eaten, for it is holy.
- Exodus 36:7
For the material was enough for all the work to do it, and more.
- Leviticus 2:3
What is left of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and for his sons; it is a most holy thing among the fire offerings of YHWH.
- Leviticus 2:10
What is left of the grain offering shall be for Aaron and for his sons; it is a most holy thing among the fire offerings of YHWH.
- Leviticus 6:16
What is left of it Aaron and his sons shall eat; it shall be eaten unleavened in a holy place; in the court of the tent of meeting they shall eat it.
- Leviticus 7:16
But if the sacrifice of his offering is a vow or a freewill offering, it shall be eaten on the day he presents his sacrifice, and on the next day what is left of it may be eaten.
- Leviticus 7:17
What is left of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burned with fire.
- Leviticus 8:32
What is left of the flesh and of the bread you shall burn with fire.
- Leviticus 10:12
Moses spoke to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons who were left, “Take the grain offering that is left from the fire offerings of YHWH, and eat it unleavened beside the altar, for it is a most holy thing.
- Leviticus 10:16
Moses searched diligently for the goat of the sin offering, and look, it had been burned; and he was angry with Eleazar and with Ithamar, the remaining sons of Aaron, saying,
- Leviticus 14:18
And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one being purified; and the priest shall make expiation for him before YHWH.
- Leviticus 14:29
And the rest of the oil that is in the priest’s palm he shall put on the head of the one being purified, to make expiation for him before YHWH.
- Leviticus 19:6
It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it and on the next day, and what is left until the third day shall be burned in the fire.
- Leviticus 22:30
On that day it shall be eaten; you shall not leave any of it until morning. I am YHWH.
- Leviticus 27:18
But if he consecrates his field after the jubilee, the priest shall calculate for him the silver according to the years that remain until the year of jubilee, and it shall be deducted from the valuation.
- Numbers 26:65
For YHWH had said of them, “They shall surely die in the wilderness.” And there was not left a man of them except Caleb son of Jephunneh and Joshua son of Nun.
- Numbers 33:55
But if you do not dispossess the inhabitants of the land from before you, then those whom you let remain of them shall be as barbs in your eyes and as thorns in your sides, and they shall harass you in the land in which you dwell.
- Deuteronomy 28:11
And YHWH will make you abound in good things, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, on the land that YHWH swore to your fathers to give you.
- Deuteronomy 28:54
The man who is the tenderest among you and very refined will look with an evil eye on his brother and on the wife of his bosom and on the rest of his children whom he has left,
- Deuteronomy 30:9
And YHWH your Elohim will make you abound in all the work of your hand, in the fruit of your womb and in the fruit of your livestock and in the fruit of your ground, for good; for YHWH will again rejoice over you for good, as he rejoiced over your fathers,
- Joshua 11:11
They struck every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, devoting them to destruction; there was not left anything that breathed; and Hazor he burned with fire.
- Joshua 11:22
No Anakim were left in the land of the sons of Israel; only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod did some remain.
- Joshua 17:2
And the allotment was for the rest of the sons of Manasseh according to their families: for the sons of Abiezer, for the sons of Helek, for the sons of Asriel, for the sons of Shechem, for the sons of Hepher, and for the sons of Shemida. These are the sons of Manasseh son of Joseph, the males, according to their families.
- Joshua 17:6
because the daughters of Manasseh received an inheritance among his sons; and the land of Gilead belonged to the rest of the sons of Manasseh.
- Joshua 18:2
And there remained among the sons of Israel seven tribes who had not divided their inheritance.
- Joshua 21:5
And the rest of the sons of Kohath received by lot ten cities from the families of the tribe of Ephraim, from the tribe of Dan, and from the half tribe of Manasseh.
- Joshua 21:20
And as for the families of the sons of Kohath, the Levites who remained of the sons of Kohath, the cities of their lot were from the tribe of Ephraim.
- Joshua 21:26
All the cities were ten with their pasturelands for the families of the rest of the sons of Kohath.
- Joshua 21:34
And to the families of the sons of Merari, the Levites who remained, they gave from the tribe of Zebulun: Jokneam with its pasturelands, Kartah with its pasturelands,
- Joshua 21:40
All the cities for the sons of Merari according to their families, the rest of the families of the Levites: their lot was twelve cities.
- Judges 8:10
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their camps with them, about fifteen thousand, all who were left of all the camp of the sons of the east; and those who had fallen were a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword.
And 67 more times.