יִצְהָר
Izhar
BDB lists 2 entries for ‘Izhar’ 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 H3324 appears — 9 distinct verses across 3 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.
Exodus 2 verses
Numbers 2 verses
- Numbers 3:19 וְ/יִצְהָ֔ר conj + n Proper The sons of Kohath by their families: Amram, and Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.
- Numbers 16:1 יִצְהָ֥ר n Proper Now Korah, the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, with Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab, and On, the son of Peleth, sons of Reuben, took [men]:
1 Chronicles 5 verses
- 1 Chronicles 6:2 יִצְהָ֔ר n Proper The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
- 1 Chronicles 6:18 וְ/יִצְהָ֔ר conj + n Proper The sons of Kohath were Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel.
- 1 Chronicles 6:38 יִצְהָ֣ר n Proper the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.
- 1 Chronicles 23:12 יִצְהָ֛ר n Proper The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel, four.
- 1 Chronicles 23:18 יִצְהָ֖ר n Proper The sons of Izhar: Shelomith the chief.
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.
At its core, יצהר (Yitshâr) means “Izhar.” The word gravitates to 1 Chronicles (56%), then Exodus and Numbers. It turns up in 9 verses across 3 books, an uncommon footprint. Scripture first uses it in Exodus 6:18. Dig into 9-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3324 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 →
- 9
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 9 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,481
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,481 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 9 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 1 Chronicles 5 verses 56%
- Exodus 2 verses 22%
- Numbers 2 verses 22%
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 9 distinct verses.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 5 verses · 56%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 4 verses · 44%
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 3 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†: Izhar 8×
- American Standard Version†: Izhar 9×
- Berean Standard Bible†: Izhar 9×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Izhar 9×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3324 across 9† 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.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3324 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H3324 across 9† tagged occurrences — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3324 across 9† tagged occurrences — 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.
- Izhar = "shining oil"
- son of Kohath, grandson of Levi, uncle of Moses and Aaron, and father of Korah; progenitor of the Izharites
Word origin
II. n.[m.] fresh oil (newly appeared, cf. ‘Ausbruch’ LagBN 129 Köii 1, 93; > Thes al. that which shines);—abs. יִצ׳ Ho 2:10 +, sf. יִצְהָרֶ֑ךָ Dt 7:13 +;—fresh oil, as product of land, in unmanufactured state, usually + תִּירוֹשׁ, דָּגָן etc., rich possession, gift of י׳ Ho 2:10, 24; Je 31:12; Dt 7:13; 11:14; Jo 2:19, 24, so חֵלֶב יִצ׳ Nu 18:12; Dt 28:51; Hg 1:11; 2 Ch 32:28; Ne 5:11; tithed Dt 12:17; 14:23; firstfruits for priest 18:4; Ne 10:38 cf. v 40 13:5 (tithe for Levites), v 12, for priest and Levite 2 Ch 31:5; זֵית יִצ׳ 2 K 18:32 oil-olive, i.e. oil-yielding olive-trees, cf. יִצ׳ alone Jo 1:10; יִצ׳ as anointing oil only in בְּנֵי הַיִּצ׳ Zc 4:14, i.e. anointed ones.
III. n.pr.m. Ισ(σ)ααρ: Levite, son of Kohath Ex 6:18, 21; Nu 3:19; 16:1 1 Ch 5:28; 6:3, 23; 23:12, 18.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יצהר (yitshâr) (H3323) — shining oil.
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.
יִצְהָר I
- oil. Sifré Deut. 42. Snh. 24ᵃ (ref. to Zech. IV, 14) י׳ אלו ת"ח שמשמינים וכ׳ Ms. M. (ed. שנוחים … כשמן) ‘sons of oil’, those are the Palestinean scholars who oil (smoothe) one another in their discussions; Yalk. Zech. 579. e.g. Zechariah 4:14
יִצְהָר II
- (b. h.) pr. n. m. Izhar, father of Korah. Snh. 109ᵇ בן י׳ שהרתיח … כצהרים ‘the son of I.’, for he made the world as hot to himself as noon-heat.
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.
Forms in the corpus
The 7 distinct written forms H3324 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| וְ/יִצְהָ֔ר | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:18 | 3 |
| יִצְהָ֑ר | Noun, Proper | Exodus 6:21 | 1 |
| יִצְהָ֔ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:2 | 1 |
| יִצְהָ֖ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 23:18 | 1 |
| יִצְהָ֛ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 23:12 | 1 |
| יִצְהָ֣ר | Noun, Proper | 1 Chronicles 6:38 | 1 |
| יִצְהָ֥ר | Noun, Proper | Numbers 16:1 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H3324, 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
Proper names from this root
People and places named from this root — a name, not an additional meaning of the word.
Compare all same-root words → 1 of the same-root words is a proper name (a person or place). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Bible dictionary
Public-domain dictionary articles matched to this entry by name (Izhar). A biblical name can be shared by more than one person or place, so an article may treat several.
Easton's Bible Dictionary · M. G. Easton, 1897
Oil, one of the sons of Kohath, and grandson of Levi (Ex. 6:18, 21; Num. 16:1).
Smith's Bible Dictionary · William Smith, 1863
(oil), son of Kohath grandson of Levi, uncle of Aaron and Moses and father of Korah. (Exodus 6:18,21; Numbers 3:19; 16:1; 1 Chronicles 6:2,18) (B.C. after 1490.) Izhar was the head of the family of the Izharites, (1 Chronicles 24:22; 26:23) or Izeharites. (Numbers 3:27; 1 Chronicles 26:23,29)
Classic public-domain reference works; full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 9 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 9 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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