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Lexicon :: Strong's H3499 - yeṯer

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יֶתֶר
Transliteration
yeṯer
Pronunciation
yeh'-ther
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 936a

Strong’s Definitions

יֶתֶר yether, yeh'-ther; from H3498; properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder; also a small rope (as hanging free):— abundant, cord, exceeding, excellancy(-ent), what they leave, that hath left, plentifully, remnant, residue, rest, string, with.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 101x

The KJV translates Strong's H3499 in the following manner: rest (63x), remnant (14x), residue (8x), leave (4x), excellency (3x), withs (3x), cord (1x), exceeding (1x), excellent (1x), more (1x), plentifully (1x), string (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 101x
The KJV translates Strong's H3499 in the following manner: rest (63x), remnant (14x), residue (8x), leave (4x), excellency (3x), withs (3x), cord (1x), exceeding (1x), excellent (1x), more (1x), plentifully (1x), string (1x).

  1. remainder, excess, rest, remnant, excellence

    1. remainder, remnant

    2. remainder, rest, other part

    3. excess

    4. abundantly (adv)

    5. abundance, affluence

    6. superiority, excellency

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
יֶתֶר yether, yeh'-ther; from H3498; properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder; also a small rope (as hanging free):— abundant, cord, exceeding, excellancy(-ent), what they leave, that hath left, plentifully, remnant, residue, rest, string, with.
STRONGS H3499: Abbreviations
I. יֶ֫תֶר 94 noun masculineNehemiah 2:16 remainder, excellence, excess; — absolute יֶ֫תֶר Nehemiah 2:16 + 2 times; יָ֑תֶר Proverbs 17:7; construct יֶ֫תֶר Genesis 49:3 + 84 times; יֶ֫תֶר Isaiah 56:12 (see Baer's note); suffix יִתְרוֺ Isaiah 44:19; יִתְרָם Exodus 23:11 + 2 times (not Job 4:21, which see below II. יֶתֶר); —
1.
†a. remainder, remnant (with implied inferiority in number or quality), of crops, etc. יִתְרָם Exodus 23:11 (JE), their remnant, i.e. what they (the enemy) leave, so יֶתֶר הַגָּזָם Joel 1:4; יֶתֶר הָאַרְבֶּה Joel 1:4; יֶתֶר הַיֶּלֶק Joel 1:4; הַפְּלֵטָה יֶתֶר הַנִּשְׁאֶרֶת Exodus 10:5 (J); of vessels, יֶתֶר הַכֵּלִים הַנּוֺתָרִים Jeremiah 27:19; of a tree Isaiah 44:19 (= שְׁאֵרִית Isaiah 44:17); elsewhere of person Deuteronomy 3:11 = Joshua 12:4; Joshua 3:12 (both D), Deuteronomy 28:54; Joshua 23:12 (D), 2 Samuel 21:2; 2 Kings 25:11 = Jeremiah 52:15; Ezekiel 34:18; of a rescued remnant of Israel (Judah) Micah 5:2; Zephaniah 2:9 (|| שְׁאֵרִית), Zechariah 14:2; יֶתֶר הַקָּדֵשׁ אֲשֶׁר נִשְׁאַר 1 Kings 22:47; יֶתֶר הָעָם הַנִּשְׁאָרִים Jeremiah 36:9 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 25:11 = Jeremiah 52:15†.
b. remainder, rest, other part of people, elders, etc., 2 Samuel 10:10 = 1 Chronicles 19:11; 2 Samuel 12:28; 1 Kings 12:23; Jeremiah 29:1; Habakkuk 2:8; Ezekiel 48:23; sometimes including a majority Judges 7:6; 1 Samuel 13:2; of common people (opposed to rulers) Nehemiah 2:16; Nehemiah 4:8; Nehemiah 4:13; compare Nehemiah 6:1; of land Deuteronomy 3:13; Joshua 13:27 (P); of other inanimate things Leviticus 14:17 (P), Numbers 31:32 (id.), of years Isaiah 38:10; elsewhere in phrase יֶחֶר דִּבְרֵי the rest of the affairs of, in summaries of reigns of kings of Israel and Judah 1 Kings 11:41 + 41 times Kings Chronicles; יֶתֶר כָּלדִּֿבְרֵי 1 Kings 15:23; יֶתֶר דְּבָרָיו 2 Chronicles 28:26.
†2.
a. excess, שְׂפַת יָ֑תֶר Proverbs 17:7 a lip of excess = arrogant speech (see VB).
b. in adverb phrases, עַל יֶתֶר Psalm 31:24 on the basis of abundance = abundantly, as adverb accusative גָּדוֺל יֶתֶר מְאֹד Isaiah 56:12 great, in abundance, exceedingly, Daniel 8:9 וַתִּגְדַּליֶֿתֶר and grew great in excess, exceedingly (compare bdb045201 much, bdb045202 more than).
c. specifically what is over and above immediate necessities, abundance, affluence Job 22:20; Psalm 17:14.
†3. superiority, excellency יֶתֶר שְׂאֵת וְיֶתֶר עָ֫ז Genesis 49:3. — On Job 4:1 see II. יֶתֶר.

II. יֶ֫תֶר noun masculineJudges 16:7 cord (properly as hanging over or down; Aramaic יַתְרָא part of the intestines, Targum יְתָרַיָּא ropes, bdb045203 cord, rope, chord of arc; Arabic bdb045204 bow-string, lute-string; Ethiopic bdb045205 sinew, cord; bdb045206 stretch bowstring, strain (eyes), be intent, eager, etc.) — יֶתֶ֑ר Psalm 11:2 + 3 times; suffix יִתְרוֺ Kt Job 30:11 (יִתְרִי Qr); יִתְרָם Job 4:21; — cord, for binding a man Judges 16:7, 8, 9; bowstring Psalm 11:2; Job 30:11 (according to Qr, opposed to Job 29:20b; Kt = his cord, with which he reins in my assailants; compare Di Da). Job 4:21 tent-cord Ew De Di RV; yet read perhaps יְתֵדָם their tent-peg, so Ol Hi Sgfr (> AV their excellency, from I. יֶתֶר).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

49:3; 49:3

Exodus

10:5; 23:11; 23:11

Leviticus

14:17

Numbers

31:32

Deuteronomy

3:11; 3:13; 28:54

Joshua

3:12; 12:4; 13:27; 23:12

Judges

7:6; 16:7; 16:7; 16:8; 16:9

1 Samuel

13:2

2 Samuel

10:10; 12:28; 21:2

1 Kings

11:41; 12:23; 15:23; 22:47

2 Kings

25:11; 25:11

1 Chronicles

19:11

2 Chronicles

28:26

Nehemiah

2:16; 2:16; 2:16; 4:8; 4:13; 6:1

Job

4:1; 4:21; 4:21; 4:21; 22:20; 29:20; 30:11; 30:11

Psalms

11:2; 11:2; 17:14; 31:24

Proverbs

17:7; 17:7

Isaiah

38:10; 44:17; 44:19; 44:19; 56:12; 56:12

Jeremiah

27:19; 29:1; 36:9; 52:15; 52:15

Ezekiel

34:18; 48:23

Daniel

8:9

Joel

1:4; 1:4; 1:4

Micah

5:2

Habakkuk

2:8

Zephaniah

2:9

Zechariah

14:2

H3499

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Strong's Number H3499 matches the Hebrew יֶתֶר (yeṯer),
which occurs 102 times in 95 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 49:3–2Ki 15:36)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:3 - Reuben, you are my first-born, my might, and the first fruits of my strength, pre-eminent in pride and pre-eminent in power.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 10:5 - and they shall cover the face of the land, so that no one can see the land; and they shall eat what is left to you after the hail, and they shall eat every tree of yours which grows in the field,

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 23:11 - but the seventh year you shall let it rest and lie fallow, that the poor of your people may eat; and what they leave the wild beasts may eat. You shall do likewise with your vineyard, and with your olive orchard.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 14:17 - And some of the oil that remains in his hand the priest shall put on the tip of the right ear of him who is to be cleansed, and on the thumb of his right hand, and on the great toe of his right foot, upon the blood of the guilt offering;

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:32 - Now the booty remaining of the spoil that the men of war took was: six hundred and seventy-five thousand sheep,

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:11 - (For only Og the king of Bashan was left of the remnant of the Reph'aim; behold, his bedstead was a bedstead of iron; is it not in Rabbah of the Ammonites? Nine cubits was its length, and four cubits its breadth, according to the common cubit.)

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 3:13 - the rest of Gilead, and all Bashan, the kingdom of Og, that is, all the region of Argob, I gave to the half-tribe of Manas'seh. (The whole of that Bashan is called the land of Reph'aim.

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 28:54 - The man who is the most tender and delicately bred among you will grudge food to his brother, to the wife of his bosom, and to the last of the children who remain to him;

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 12:4 - and Og king of Bashan, one of the remnant of the Reph'aim, who dwelt at Ash'taroth and at Ed're-i

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:12 - all the kingdom of Og in Bashan, who reigned in Ash'taroth and in Ed're-i (he alone was left of the remnant of the Reph'aim); these Moses had defeated and driven out.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 13:27 - and in the valley Beth-ha'ram, Beth-nim'rah, Succoth, and Zaphon, the rest of the kingdom of Sihon king of Heshbon, having the Jordan as a boundary, to the lower end of the Sea of Chin'nereth, eastward beyond the Jordan.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJos 23:12 - For if you turn back, and join the remnant of these nations left here among you, and make marriages with them, so that you marry their women and they yours,

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 7:6 - And the number of those that lapped, putting their hands to their mouths, was three hundred men; but all the rest of the people knelt down to drink water.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:7 - And Samson said to her, "If they bind me with seven fresh bowstrings which have not been dried, then I shall become weak, and be like any other man."

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:8 - Then the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings which had not been dried, and she bound him with them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - Now she had men lying in wait in an inner chamber. And she said to him, "The Philistines are upon you, Samson!" But he snapped the bowstrings, as a string of tow snaps when it touches the fire. So the secret of his strength was not known.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 13:2 - Saul chose three thousand men of Israel; two thousand were with Saul in Michmash and the hill country of Bethel, and a thousand were with Jonathan in Gib'e-ah of Benjamin; the rest of the people he sent home, every man to his tent.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 10:10 - the rest of his men he put in the charge of Abi'shai his brother, and he arrayed them against the Ammonites.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 12:28 - Now, then, gather the rest of the people together, and encamp against the city, and take it; lest I take the city, and it be called by my name."

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Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 21:2 - So the king called the Gib'eonites. Now the Gib'eonites were not of the people of Israel, but of the remnant of the Amorites; although the people of Israel had sworn to spare them, Saul had sought to slay them in his zeal for the people of Israel and Judah.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 11:41 - Now 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?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 12:23 - "Say to Rehobo'am the son of Solomon, king of Judah, and to all the house of Judah and Benjamin, and to the rest of the people,

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:19 - Now the rest of the acts of Jerobo'am, how he warred and how he reigned, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 14:29 - Now the rest of the acts of Rehobo'am, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:7 - The rest of the acts of Abi'jam, 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 Abi'jam and Jerobo'am.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:23 - Now the rest of all the acts of Asa, all his might, and all that he did, and the cities which he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah? But in his old age he was diseased in his feet.

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 15:31 - Now the rest of the acts of Nadab, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:5 - Now the rest of the acts of Ba'asha, and what he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:14 - Now the rest of the acts of Elah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:20 - Now the rest of the acts of Zimri, and the conspiracy which he made, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:27 - Now the rest of the acts of Omri which he did, and the might that he showed, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:39 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahab, and all that he did, and the ivory house which he built, and all the cities that he built, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:45 - Now the rest of the acts of Jehosh'aphat, and his might that he showed, and how he warred, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 22:46 - And the remnant of the male cult prostitutes who remained in the days of his father Asa, he exterminated from the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:18 - Now the rest of the acts of Ahazi'ah which he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:23 - Now 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?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 10:34 - Now 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?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 12:19 - Now the rest of the acts of Jo'ash, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:8 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeho'ahaz and all that he did, and his might, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 13:12 - Now the rest of the acts of Jo'ash, and all that he did, and the might with which he fought against Amazi'ah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:15 - Now the rest of the acts of Jeho'ash which he did, and his might, and how he fought with Amazi'ah king of Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:18 - Now the rest of the deeds of Amazi'ah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 14:28 - Now the rest of the acts of Jerobo'am, and all that he did, and his might, how he fought, and how he recovered for Israel Damascus and Hamath, which had belonged to Judah, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:6 - Now the rest of the acts of Azari'ah, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:11 - Now the rest of the deeds of Zechari'ah, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:15 - Now the rest of the deeds of Shallum, and the conspiracy which he made, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:21 - Now the rest of the deeds of Men'ahem, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel?

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:26 - Now the rest of the deeds of Pekahi'ah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:31 - Now the rest of the acts of Pekah, and all that he did, behold, they are written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 15:36 - Now the rest of the acts of Jotham, and all that he did, are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah?

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