יָתַר yatar

Hebrew word for “to remain” · Strong’s H3498 · used 106 times in 100 verses

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Meaning

1) to be left over, remain, remain over, leave;

How it is translated

Glosses given for yatar in context, with how often each is used:

• left 16
• which remained 12
• remainder 9
• who remained 5
• which remain 5
• will leave over 4
• what remains 4
• will remain 4
• remained 3
• those who remain 3
• one who remains 3
• had left over 2

Where it is used

Also in 11 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 21 (5), 2 Kings 4 (3), 1 Chronicles 6 (3), Jeremiah 27 (3), Ezekiel 48 (3), Exodus 16 (2), Leviticus 2 (2), Leviticus 7 (2), Leviticus 10 (2), Leviticus 14 (2)

Forms

• הנותרים 22
• נותר 10
• והנותר 10
• הנותר 7
• ויותר 5
• יותר 5
• הנותרת 3
• הותיר 3
• תותירו 3
• ויותרו 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with yatar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• עַד ad “till” 19
• מִן־ min “from” 16
• אָכַל akhal “to eat” 13
• עִיר ir “city” 13
• שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 7
• מִשְׁפָּחָה mishpachah “family” 8
• קְהָת qehat “Kohath” 5
• אֶלֶף eleph “thousand” 8
• הָ ha “her” 8
• צָבָא tsava “Hosts” 8
• אֶחָד echad “one” 9
• עֶשְׂרִים esrim “twenty” 7

Key verses

The verses using yatar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Genesis 32:24 — And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
• Numbers 26:65 — For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the…
• 1 Kings 19:10 — And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy…
• 1 Kings 20:30 — But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into…
• 2 Chronicles 31:10 — And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have…
• Isaiah 1:9 — Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
• Isaiah 4:3 — And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the…
• Isaiah 30:17 — One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on…
• Ezekiel 12:16 — But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen…
• Ezekiel 14:22 — Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see…
• Zechariah 13:8 — And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
• Zechariah 14:16 — And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King,…

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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.