yasar · discipline, correct

What it means

yasar (יָסַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “discipline, correct”.

Correct, discipline, teach firmly, as a father his son; also punish.

How to say it

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

1. To guide and straighten someone's conduct firmly, sometimes with punishment.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• disciplined ×9
• Correct ×8
• corrected ×6
• will discipline ×5
• correct me ×4
• discipline ×3
• He who corrects ×2
• disciplines ×2
• accept correction ×1
• gave instruction ×1
• others ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Leviticus×3
• Deuteronomy×5
• 1 Kings×4
• 1 Chronicles×1
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Job×1
• Psalms×9
• Proverbs×5
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×7
• Ezekiel×1
• Hosea×3

• Leviticus 26:18

  And if after these things you do not listen to me, I will go on to correct you seven times more for your sins.

• Leviticus 26:23

  And if by these things you are not corrected by me, but walk with me in opposition,

• Leviticus 26:28

  then I will walk with you in the fury of opposition, and I myself will correct you seven times more for your sins.

• Deuteronomy 4:36

  From the heavens he made you hear his voice to discipline you; and on the earth he made you see his great fire, and you heard his words from the midst of the fire.

• Deuteronomy 8:5

  Know in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, YHWH your Elohim disciplines you.

• Deuteronomy 21:18

  If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not listen to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and they discipline him and he will not listen to them,

• Deuteronomy 22:18

  And the elders of that city shall take the man and discipline him,

• 1 Kings 12:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.’”

• 1 Kings 12:14

  and he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made heavy your yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I will discipline you with scorpions.”

• 1 Chronicles 15:22

  And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites in the carrying, gave instruction in the carrying, for he understood it.

• 2 Chronicles 10:11

  And now, my father loaded on you a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke; my father disciplined you with whips, but I with scorpions.’”

• 2 Chronicles 10:14

  and he spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “I will make heavy your yoke, and I will add to it; my father disciplined you with whips, but I with scorpions.”

• Job 4:3

  Look, you have corrected many, and slack hands you have strengthened.

• Psalms 2:10

  And now, kings, be prudent; accept correction, judges of the earth.

• Psalms 6:1

  For the director. With stringed instruments, on the eighth. A psalm of David. YHWH, do not rebuke me in your anger, nor correct me in your fury.

• Psalms 16:7

  I will bless YHWH who counsels me; even at night my kidneys correct me.

• Psalms 38:1

  A psalm of David. For bringing to remembrance. YHWH, do not rebuke me in your wrath, nor correct me in your fury.

• Psalms 39:11

  With rebukes for iniquity you correct a man, and you melt away like a moth what he treasures; only a vapor is every human being. Selah.

• Psalms 94:10

  He who corrects nations, does he not reprove? he who teaches human beings knowledge!

• Psalms 94:12

  Happy is the man whom you correct, Yah, and from your instruction you teach him,

• Psalms 118:18

  Yah has disciplined me severely, but to death he has not given me over.

• Proverbs 9:7

  He who corrects a scoffer gets disgrace for himself, and he who reproves a wicked man gets his blemish.

• Proverbs 19:18

  Correct your son, for there is hope, but do not set your soul on putting him to death.

• Proverbs 29:17

  Correct your son, and he will give you rest, and he will give delights to your soul.

• Proverbs 29:19

  By words a slave is not corrected, for he understands, but there is no response.

• Proverbs 31:1

  The words of Lemuel, king, the burden with which his mother corrected him.

• Isaiah 8:11

  For thus YHWH spoke to me with strength of the hand, and he corrected me so that I would not walk in the way of this people, saying,

• Isaiah 28:26

  And he instructs him in the proper way; his Elohim teaches him.

• Jeremiah 2:19

  Your evil will discipline you, and your apostasies will rebuke you; know and see that it is evil and bitter for you to forsake YHWH your Elohim, and that the dread of me is not in you, declares Adonai YHWH Tsevaot.

• Jeremiah 6:8

  Be corrected, Jerusalem, or my soul will be torn away from you, or I will make you a desolation, a land not inhabited.”

• Jeremiah 10:24

  Correct me, YHWH, but with justice, not in your anger, lest you reduce me.

• Jeremiah 30:11

  For I am with you, declares YHWH, to save you; for I will make an extermination among all the nations among which I have scattered you; but of you I will not make an extermination, but I will correct you with judgment, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

• Jeremiah 31:18

  I have surely heard Ephraim grieving: ‘You have disciplined me, and I was disciplined, like a calf not trained; bring me back, and I will come back, for you are YHWH my Elohim.

• Jeremiah 46:28

  You, do not fear, my servant Jacob, declares YHWH, for I am with you; for I will make an extermination among all the nations to which I have driven you, but of you I will not make an extermination, and I will correct you with judgment, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.

• Ezekiel 23:48

  And I will put an end to infamy in the land, and all the women will take correction, and they will not act according to your infamy.

• Hosea 7:12

  As they go, I will spread my net over them; like the birds of the heavens I will bring them down; I will discipline them according to the report to their community.

• Hosea 7:15

  And I disciplined them, I strengthened their arms, yet against me they devise evil.

• Hosea 10:10

  When I desire, I will discipline them; and peoples will be gathered against them, when they are bound for their two iniquities.

And 5 more times.