יֶתֶר
yeter · rest; preeminence
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H3499 · appears 101 times in the Bible
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yeter (יֶתֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rest; preeminence”.
What remains or is left over: the rest. Also what stands out: excess, preeminence, first place.
How to say it
ye·ter
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
- What remains after what has been said or done, like a king's other deeds.
- What stands out above the rest, the best.
- Another word spelled the same: the taut string of a bow.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
Word study
What remains or is left over, the rest; also what stands out: preeminence. It comes from יָתַר, “to remain, to be left over” (H3498). BDB: an overhanging: excess, remainder, excellence; also a cord, as hanging over.
- The rest of a people or group Deuteronomy 3:112 Kings 25:11
- “The rest of the acts of …” in Kings and Chronicles 1 Kings 11:41
- What a plague left Joel 1:4
- “Preeminent in dignity”: preeminence Genesis 49:3
- Bowstrings Judges 16:7
How we translate it
“Rest” 78 times, “remnant” 4, “bowstrings” 3, “cord” 2, “preeminent” 2… This edition sets the kings' formula יֶתֶר דִּבְרֵי = “the rest of the acts of …” (1 Kings 11:41). With the sense of standing out, “preeminent” (Genesis 49:3). There is another, identical word, which is the cord; יְתָרִים is “bowstrings” (Judges 16:7).
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- rest ×78
- remnant ×4
- bowstrings ×3
- cord ×2
- preeminent ×2
- What the cutting locust left ×1
- beyond measure ×1
- exceedingly ×1
- excellence ×1
- full ×1
- others ×7
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Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Genesis×2
- Exodus×2
- Leviticus×1
- Numbers×1
- Deuteronomy×3
- Joshua×4
- Judges×4
- 1 Samuel×1
- 2 Samuel×3
- 1 Kings×14
- 2 Kings×24
- 1 Chronicles×1
- 2 Chronicles×10
- Nehemiah×5
- Job×3
- Psalms×3
- Proverbs×1
- Isaiah×3
- Jeremiah×6
- Ezekiel×2
- Daniel×1
- Joel×3
- Micah×1
- Habakkuk×1
- Zephaniah×1
- Zechariah×1
- Genesis 49:3
Reuben, you are my firstborn, my strength and the first fruit of my vigor, preeminent in dignity and preeminent in power.
- Exodus 10:5
They will cover the surface of the land, so that no one will be able to see the land; and they will eat what is left of what escaped, what remains to you from the hail, and they will eat every tree that grows for you in the field.
- Exodus 23:11
but the seventh year you shall let it rest and leave it alone, so that the poor of your people may eat, and what they leave the animals of the field may eat. So you shall do with your vineyard and with your olive grove.
- Leviticus 14:17
And some of the rest of the oil that is in his palm the priest shall put on the lobe of the right ear of the one being purified, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the big toe of his right foot, on top of the blood of the guilt offering.
- Numbers 31:32
The plunder, the rest of the booty that the people of the army had looted, was six hundred seventy-five thousand sheep,
- Deuteronomy 3:11
(For only Og king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Rephaim. Look, his bed was a bed of iron. Is it not in Rabbah of the sons of Ammon? Nine cubits was its length and four cubits its width, by the cubit of a man.)
- Deuteronomy 3:13
The rest of Gilead and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, I gave to the half tribe of Manasseh, all the region of Argob. (As for all that Bashan, it is called a land of Rephaim.
- 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,
- Joshua 12:4
and the territory of Og king of Bashan, of the remnant of the Rephaim, who lived in Ashtaroth and in Edrei,
- Joshua 13:12
all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth and in Edrei (he was left of the remnant of the Rephaim); Moses struck them and dispossessed them.
- Joshua 13:27
and in the valley: Beth-haram, Beth-nimrah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, the Jordan and its border, as far as the end of the Sea of Chinnereth, beyond the Jordan to the east.
- Joshua 23:12
For if you do indeed turn back and cling to the rest of these nations, those that remain with you, and intermarry with them, and go in among them, and they among you,
- Judges 7:6
The number of those who lapped with their hand to their mouth was three hundred men; and all the rest of the people bent down on their knees to drink water.
- Judges 16:7
And Samson said to her, “If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings that have not been dried, then I will become weak and be like any human being.”
- Judges 16:8
And the lords of the Philistines brought up to her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she bound him with them.
- Judges 16:9
Now the ambush was waiting for her in the room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the bowstrings as a strand of tow snaps when it smells fire. So his strength was not known.
- 1 Samuel 13:2
Saul chose for himself three thousand from Israel; two thousand were with Saul at Michmash and in the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan at Gibeah of Benjamin; and the rest of the people he sent away, each to his tents.
- 2 Samuel 10:10
And the rest of the people he put in the hand of Abishai his brother, and he drew them up against the sons of Ammon.
- 2 Samuel 12:28
Now then, gather the rest of the people, encamp against the city, and take it, lest I take the city and my name be called over it.”
- 2 Samuel 21:2
The king called the Gibeonites and spoke to them. (Now the Gibeonites were not of the sons of Israel; they were rather of the remnant of the Amorite; and the sons of Israel had sworn to them, but Saul sought to strike them in his zeal for the sons of Israel and Judah.)
- 1 Kings 11:41
And the rest of the acts of Solomon, and all that he did, and his wisdom, are they not written in the book of the acts of Solomon?
- 1 Kings 12:23
“Say to Rehoboam son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people, saying,
- 1 Kings 14:19
The rest of the deeds of Jeroboam, how he fought and how he reigned, are written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel.
- 1 Kings 14:29
The rest of the deeds of Rehoboam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 1 Kings 15:7
The rest of the deeds of Abijam, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? And there was war between Abijam and Jeroboam.
- 1 Kings 15:23
The rest of all the deeds of Asa, and all his might, and all that he did, and the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah? Only in the time of his old age he became diseased in his feet.
- 1 Kings 15:31
The rest of the deeds of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 16:5
The rest of the deeds of Baasha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 16:14
The rest of the deeds of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 16:20
The rest of the deeds of Zimri, and his conspiracy that he conspired, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 16:27
The rest of the deeds of Omri, what he did, and his might that he showed, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 22:39
The rest of the deeds of Ahab, and all that he did, and the house of ivory that he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 1 Kings 22:45
The rest of the deeds of Jehoshaphat, and his might that he showed, and how he fought, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 1 Kings 22:46
And the rest of the sacred prostitutes who remained in the days of Asa his father, he swept away from the land.
- 2 Kings 1:18
The rest of the acts of Ahaziah, what he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 8:23
The rest of the acts of Joram and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 10:34
The rest of the acts of Jehu, and all that he did, and all his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 12:19
The rest of the acts of Joash and all that he did, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Judah?
- 2 Kings 13:8
The rest of the acts of Jehoahaz, and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
- 2 Kings 13:12
The rest of the acts of Joash, and all that he did, and his might with which he fought against Amaziah king of Judah, are they not written in the book of the chronicles of the kings of Israel?
And 61 more times.