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Brown-Driver-Briggs /Thayer Dictionary - יָתַר

יָתַר

H3498

Transliteration: yâthar

Pronunciation: yaw-thar'

Definition: excel


Original: יתר

Transliteration: yâthar

Phonetic: yaw-thar'

BDB Definition:

  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

Origin: a primitive root

TWOT entry: 936

Part(s) of speech: Verb


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