יוֹרָה
Jorah
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Jorah’ fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Proper
- A name of a specific person, place, or people (e.g. Abraham, Zion, Israel).
Every verse where H3139 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Ezra 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
“Jorah” is the headline sense of the Hebrew name יורה (Yôwrâh). It is rare — just 1 verse in the entire Hebrew Bible. More than three-quarters of its appearances fall in Ezra. A true hapax — its single appearance is Ezra 2:18. For the data behind this summary, explore 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3139 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Ezra 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
BDB lists this Strong’s number as 2 distinct words (homographs). Each count above pools all of them and is not split by sense — see the Senses section below. A low-frequency rendering may belong to a different one of those words, not the primary meaning.
- King James Version†: Jorah 1×
- American Standard Version†: Jorah 1×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Jorah 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Jorah 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3139 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3139 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3139 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3139 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 2 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- Jorah = "he instructs"
- the head or ancestor of a family who returned from Babylon with Ezra
Word origin
n.pr.m. בְּנֵי י׳ one of the families of the restoration Ezr 2:18 (𝔊 Ουρα, Ιωρα) = חָרִיף Ne 7:24 (𝔊 Αρειφ).
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from ירה (yârâh) (H3384) — to throw.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
יוֹרֶה I
- a soaking rain, early rain. Sifré Deut. 42 (ref. to Deut. XI, 14) י׳ במרחשון וכ׳ yoreh (early rain) is the rain of Marḥeshvan, the late rain (malkosh) in Nisan; Taan. 5ᵃ. Ib. (ref. to Mish. ib. I, 2) י׳ בניסן וכ׳ is the yoreh in Nisan? is it not in Marḥeshvan? Ib. 6ᵃ; a. e.—Trnsf. early season, spring. Tanḥ. Ḥayé 6 (ref. to Koh. XI, 6) אם זרעת בי׳ וכ׳ if thou hast sown in the spring &c.; cmp. בַּכִּיר.— e.g. Deuteronomy 11:14
יוֹרֶה II
- (denom. of אוּר, cmp. Syr. אירא P. Sm. 167) boiler, kettle. Ḥull. 108ᵃ י׳ של חלב a kettle of milk. Ib. 108ᵇ י׳ רותחת a boiling kettle. Ab. Zar. 76ᵃ י׳ קטנה בתוך י׳ גדולה put a small boiler into a large one filled with water, v. גָּעַל; a. fr.—Esp. the dyer’s kettle, dye. B. Kam. 99ᵃ top הקדיחו י׳ (Ms. H. הקדיחתו) the dye burnt it (the wool); ib. IX, 4 (100ᵇ) הקדיחתו י׳ (v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 30); Y. ib. IX, 6ᵈ bot. הקדיחה י׳.—Ḥag. 15ᵇ (in Chald. dict.) כל עמר דנחית לי׳ סליק does the wool that goes into the kettle always come out sound?, i.e. does every student of mystic philosophy escape death or scepticism?—Sabb. I, 6; a. e.—Pl. יוֹרוֹת; י׳ הערביים improvised fire places of the Arabs, a cavity in the ground laid out with clay. Kel. V, 10 (ed. Dehr. יוֹרַת). Men. V, 9 (63ᵃ).
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3139, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
- יורי Yôwray H3140 Jorai
- ירואל Yᵉrûwʼêl H3385 Jeruel
- יריאל Yᵉrîyʼêl H3400 Jeriel
- יריה Yᵉrîyâh H3404 Jerijah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 9 — not the complete family. 4 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Jorah). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(the early rain), the ancestor of a family of 112 who returned from Babylon with Ezra. (Ezra 2:18) In (Nehemiah 7:24) he appears under the name Hariph, or more correctly the same family are represented as the Bene-Hariph.
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
Jorai, showing; casting forth; a cauldron
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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