Yâthar — H3498

Definition

verb

to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively, to leave, cause to abound, preserve

1. to be left over, remain, remain over, leave
1. (Qal) remainder (participle)
2. (Niphal) to be left over, remain over, be left behind
3. (Hiphil)
1. to leave over, leave
2. to save over, preserve alive
3. to excel, show pre-eminence
4. to show excess, have more than enough, have an excess

Usually translated as

remain, rest, leave, remainder, remnant, residue, make plenteous, excel, left behind, too much, preserve, remaining, reserve

Origin

a primitive root

Greek equivalents

• apoleípō (G620)
• enkataleípō (G1459)
• epíloipos (G1954)
• eulogéō (G2127)
• heurískō (G2147)
• kataleípō (G2641)
• katáloipos (G2645)
• loipoí (G3062)
• loipón (G3063)
• loipoû (G3064)
• peripoiéomai (G4046)
• perisseúō (G4052)
• plēthýnō (G4129)
• hypolambánō (G5274)
• hypoleípō (G5275)

Occurrences

Yâthar occurs 107 times in 101 verses of the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Genesis (4), Exodus (7), Leviticus (13), Numbers (2), Deuteronomy (3), Joshua (10), Judges (4), Ruth (2), 1 Samuel (4), 2 Samuel (4), 1 Kings (8), 2 Kings (4), 1 Chronicles (5), 2 Chronicles (3), Nehemiah (1), Psalms (2), Proverbs (1), Isaiah (6), Jeremiah (5), Ezekiel (9), Daniel (1), Amos (1), Zechariah (2)

• Genesis 30:36 — And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest (הַנּוֹתָרֹֽת) of Laban’s flocks.
• Genesis 32:24 — And Jacob was left (וַיִּוָּתֵ֥ר) alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
• Genesis 44:20 — And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left (וַיִּוָּתֵ֨ר) of his mother, and his father loveth him.
• Genesis 49:4 — Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel (תּוֹתַ֔ר); because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
• Exodus 10:15 — For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left (הוֹתִ֖יר): and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
• Exodus 10:15 — For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained (נוֹתַ֨ר) not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
• Exodus 12:10 — And ye shall let nothing of it remain (תוֹתִ֥ירוּ) until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
• Exodus 12:10 — And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth (וְהַנֹּתָ֥ר) of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
• Exodus 16:19 — And Moses said, Let no man leave (יוֹתֵ֥ר) of it till the morning.
• Exodus 16:20 — Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left (וַיּוֹתִ֨רוּ) of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
• Exodus 28:10 — Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest (הַנּוֹתָרִ֛ים) on the other stone, according to their birth.
• Exodus 29:34 — And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain (יִוָּתֵ֞ר) unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
• Exodus 29:34 — And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder (הַנּוֹתָר֙) with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
• Exodus 36:7 — For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much (וְהוֹתֵֽר).
• Leviticus 2:3 — And the remnant (וְהַנּוֹתֶ֙רֶת֙) of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
• Leviticus 2:10 — And that which is left (וְהַנּוֹתֶ֙רֶת֙) of the meat offering shall be Aaron’s and his sons’: it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
• Leviticus 6:16 — And the remainder (וְהַנּוֹתֶ֣רֶת) thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
• Leviticus 7:16 — But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder (וְהַנּוֹתָ֥ר) of it shall be eaten:
• Leviticus 7:17 — But the remainder (וְהַנּוֹתָ֖ר) of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
• Leviticus 8:32 — And that which remaineth (וְהַנּוֹתָ֥ר) of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
• Leviticus 10:12 — And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left (הַנּֽוֹתָרִים֒), Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
• Leviticus 10:12 — And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth (הַנּוֹתֶ֙רֶת֙) of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
• Leviticus 10:16 — And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left (הַנּוֹתָרִ֖ם) alive, saying,
• Leviticus 14:18 — And the remnant (וְהַנּוֹתָ֗ר) of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
• Leviticus 14:29 — And the rest (וְהַנּוֹתָ֗ר) of the oil that is in the priest’s hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.
• Leviticus 19:6 — It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain (וְהַנּוֹתָר֙) until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
• Leviticus 22:30 — On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave (תוֹתִ֥ירוּ) none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 27:18 — But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain (הַנּ֣וֹתָרֹ֔ת), even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
• Numbers 26:65 — For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left (נוֹתַ֤ר) a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
• Numbers 33:55 — But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain (תּוֹתִ֣ירוּ) of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
• Deuteronomy 28:11 — And the LORD shall make thee plenteous (וְהוֹתִֽרְךָ֤) in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
• Deuteronomy 28:54 — So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave (יוֹתִֽיר):
• Deuteronomy 30:9 — And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous (וְהוֹתִֽירְךָ֩) in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
• Joshua 11:11 — And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left (נוֹתַ֖ר) to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
• Joshua 11:22 — There was none of the Anakims left (נוֹתַ֣ר) in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
• Joshua 17:2 — There was also a lot for the rest (הַנּוֹתָרִים֮) of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
• Joshua 17:6 — Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest (הַנּֽוֹתָרִֽים) of Manasseh’s sons had the land of Gilead.
• Joshua 18:2 — And there remained (וַיִּוָּֽתְרוּ֙) among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
• Joshua 21:5 — And the rest (הַנּוֹתָרִ֗ים) of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
• Joshua 21:20 — And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained (הַנּוֹתָרִ֖ים) of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
• Joshua 21:26 — All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained (הַנּוֹתָרִֽים).
• Joshua 21:34 — And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest (הַנּוֹתָרִים֒) of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
• Joshua 21:40 — So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining (הַנּוֹתָרִ֖ים) of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
• Judges 8:10 — Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left (הַנּ֣וֹתָרִ֔ים) of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
• Judges 9:5 — And he went unto his father’s house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left (וַיִּוָּתֵ֞ר); for he hid himself.
• Judges 21:7 — How shall we do for wives for them that remain (לַנּוֹתָרִ֖ים), seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
• Judges 21:16 — Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain (לַנּוֹתָרִ֖ים), seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
• Ruth 2:14 — And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left (וַתֹּתַֽר).
• Ruth 2:18 — And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved (הוֹתִ֖רָה) after she was sufficed.
• 1 Samuel 2:36 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left (הַנּוֹתָר֙) in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests’ offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.