יַעְזֵר
Jazer
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Jazer’ 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 H3270 appears — 12 distinct verses across 6 books. 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.
Numbers 4 verses
- Numbers 21:32 יַעְזֵ֔ר n Proper Moses sent to spy out Jazer; and they took the towns of it, and drove out the Amorites who were there.
- Numbers 32:1 יַעְזֵר֙ n Proper Now the children of Reuben and the children of Gad had a very great multitude of cattle: and when they saw the land of Jazer, and the land of Gilead, that behold, the place was a place for cattle;
- Numbers 32:3 וְ/יַעְזֵ֣ר conj + n Proper Ataroth, and Dibon, and Jazer, and Nimrah, and Heshbon, and Elealeh, and Sebam, and Nebo, and Beon,
- Numbers 32:35 יַעְזֵ֖ר n Proper and Atrothshophan, and Jazer, and Jogbehah,
Joshua 2 verses
2 Samuel 1 verse
1 Chronicles 2 verses
- 1 Chronicles 6:81 יַעְזֵ֖יר n Proper and Heshbon with its suburbs, and Jazer with its suburbs.
- 1 Chronicles 26:31 בְּ/יַעְזֵ֥יר prep + n Proper Of the Hebronites was Jerijah the chief, even of the Hebronites, according to their generations by fathers' [houses]. In the fortieth year of the reign of David they were sought for, and there were found among them mighty men of valor at Jazer of Gilead.
Isaiah 2 verses
- Isaiah 16:8 יַעְזֵ֥ר n Proper For the fields of Heshbon languish, [and] the vine of Sibmah; the lords of the nations have broken down the choice branches of it, which reached even to Jazer, which wandered into the wilderness; its shoots were spread abroad, they passed over the sea.
- Isaiah 16:9 יַעְזֵר֙ n Proper Therefore I will weep with the weeping of Jazer for the vine of Sibmah; I will water you with my tears, Heshbon, and Elealeh: for on your summer fruits and on your harvest the [battle] shout is fallen.
Jeremiah 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.
The Hebrew name יעזיר centers on the idea of “Jazer.” First canonically at Numbers 21:32, it enters the text early. It turns up in 12 verses across 6 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Numbers (33%), then Joshua and 1 Chronicles. Dig into 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3270 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 →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 6 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 6 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 4 verses 33%
- Joshua 2 verses 17%
- 1 Chronicles 2 verses 17%
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 12 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 6 verses · 50%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 17%
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).
- King James Version: Jazer 9×, Jaazer 2×
- American Standard Version: Jazer 11×
- Berean Standard Bible: Jazer 12×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Jazer 10×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3270 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3270 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3270 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3270 across 11 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
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.
- Jazer or Jaazer = "helped"
- a Levitical city east of the Jordan, in Gilead in the territory of Gad, formerly an Amorite city; site uncertain
Word origin
and (1 Ch 6:66; 26:31) יַעְזֵיר n.pr.loc. Ιαζηρ, E. of Jordan (Qal Impf. in—ִ according to BaNB 104);—often + Heshbon and other important towns, Nu 21:32 + v 24 (v. עַז) 32:1 (אֶרֶץ יַצ׳), v 3, 35 (all JE), 2 S 24:5, Jos 13:25 (P), 21:39 (Ginsb, v 37 van d. H. Baer; P); with vineyards Is 16:8, 9 = Je 48:32(×2) (where del. יָם before יַע׳ 𝔊 Hi Gf Gie Rothst). Site dub., cf. BuhlGeogr. 264.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from עזר (ʻâzar) (H5826) — to help.
Forms in the corpus
The 9 distinct written forms H3270 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| יַעְזֵ֖ר | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 48:32 | 3 |
| יַעְזֵר֙ | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 16:9 | 3 |
| בְּ/יַעְזֵ֥יר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 26:31 | 1 |
| וְ/יַעְזֵ֣ר | Noun, Proper | Numbers 32:3 | 1 |
| יַעְזֵ֔ר | Noun, Proper | Numbers 21:32 | 1 |
| יַעְזֵ֖יר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:81 | 1 |
| יַעְזֵ֤ר | Noun, Proper | Jeremiah 48:32 | 1 |
| יַעְזֵ֥ר | Noun, Proper | Isaiah 16:8 | 1 |
| יַעְזֵֽר | Noun, Proper | 2 Samuel 24:5 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3270, 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.
- עזור ʻAzzûwr H5809 Azur
- עזר ʻEzer H5827 Ezer
- עזראל ʻĂzarʼêl H5832 Azarael
- עזריה ʻĂzaryâh H5838 Azariah
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 8 — 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 (Jazer). 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
(Jehovah helps). [Jaazer, Or Jazer]
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary · Roswell D. Hitchcock, 1869
assistance; helper
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 10 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
