יָסַר yasar
Hebrew word for “to discipline” · Strong’s H3256 · used 43 times in 38 verses
Meaning
1) to chasten, discipline, instruct, admonish;
How it is translated
Glosses given for yasar in context, with how often each is used:
- will discipline 7
- discipline 6
- disciplined 5
- will punish 2
- have instructed 2
- have disciplined 2
- instructed 2
- will let yourself be disciplined 1
- disciplines 1
- disciplining 1
- instructor 1
- yourselves be instructed 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Psalms | 9 | 0.5 | |
| Jeremiah | 7 | 0.3 | |
| Deuteronomy | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Proverbs | 5 | 0.7 | |
| 1 Kings | 4 | 0.3 | |
| Leviticus | 3 | 0.3 | |
| Hosea | 3 | 1.3 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 2 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Chronicles | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Job | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 |
Chapters where it is used most
Leviticus 26 (3), 1 Kings 12 (2), 2 Chronicles 10 (2), Psalms 94 (2), Proverbs 29 (2), Hosea 7 (2), Deuteronomy 4 (1), Deuteronomy 8 (1), Deuteronomy 21 (1), Deuteronomy 22 (1)
Forms
- יסר 9
- ויסרו 3
- איסר 2
- יסרת 2
- תיסרני 2
- יסרני 2
- ויסרתיך 2
- ליסרה 1
- תוסרו 1
- ויסרתי 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with yasar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- עַקְרָב aqrav “scorpion” 4
- שׁוֹט shot “whip” 4
- יָכַח yakhach “to rebuke” 5
- אֲנִי ani “I” 8
- עֹל ol “yoke” 4
- יָסַף yasaph “to add” 5
- אַל al “not” 5
- לָמַד lamad “to learn” 3
- קְרִי qeri “hostility” 2
- מִשְׁפָּט mishpat “justice” 4
- חֵמָה chemah “rage” 3
- עָמַס amas “to lift” 2
Key verses
The verses using yasar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Leviticus 26:28 — Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Deuteronomy 21:18 — If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him,…
- Job 4:3 — Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
- Psalms 2:10 — Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
- Psalms 6:1 — [To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David.] O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
- Psalms 39:11 — When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
- Psalms 94:12 — Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;
- Jeremiah 2:19 — Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast…
- Jeremiah 6:8 — Be thou instructed, O Jerusalem, lest my soul depart from thee; lest I make thee desolate, a land not inhabited.
- Jeremiah 30:11 — For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of…
- Jeremiah 31:18 — I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed turn thou me, and I shall be turned;…
- Jeremiah 46:28 — Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not…
See all 38 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.