יְתוּר
to remain
‘to remain’ is one of 2 main senses 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
- Verb
- An action or state-of-being word.
Stem
- Qal
- The basic, simple active stem — the plain form of the verb (“he wrote”).
Form
- Imperfect
- An incomplete, ongoing, or future action (“he will / would write”).
Person
- 3rd Person
- The one spoken about (“he / she / it / they”).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H3491 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.
Job 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 verb יתור centers on the idea of “to remain.” A scarce word — 1 verse in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to Job (100%). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Job 39:8. Lexicons map it across 2 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H3491 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
- Job 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†: Range 1×
- American Standard Version†: Range 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text†: Ranges 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H3491 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H3491 across 1† tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H3491 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.
- to remain over, leave, range over
- (BDB) a searching (noun masculine)
Word origin
Jb 39:8 appar. n.m. a searching, but v. √.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from יתר (yâthar) (H3498) — to remain.
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.
יִתּוּר
- (יָתַר) addition. י׳ בגדים putting on more than the prescribed number of priestly garments (v. Yoma VII, 5). Zeb. 19ᵃ; Erub. 103ᵇ
יַתִּור I
- (יְתַר) remaining over, too much, too many; extraordinary, especial. Targ. O. Ex. XXVI, 12 (Y. מיתרא). Ib. דיַתִּירָא (ed. Berl. דיָתְרָא, Y. יְתֵירָא). Ib. 13.—Ḥull. 47ᵃ חסיר או י׳ one lobe wanting or one too many. B. Mets. 93ᵇ, v. טִרְחָא. Ib. נטירותא י׳ ed. (Ms. M. מעלייתא) a special watchfulness. M. Kat. 4ᵃ טירחא יתירה איכא (read יתירא, v. Rabb. D. S. a. l. note 400) it requires great labor. Ib. 21ᵃ מילתא י׳ something more than duty requires. B. Mets. 104ᵇ מילתא י׳ a disproportionate amount. Gitt. 64ᵇ ידא י׳ an additional hand (her own and her father’s power of accepting the letter of divorce). B. Bath. 104ᵇ top [read:] ואי איכא יתירא and if there is a surplus, v. מַלֵּיתָא.—B. Kam. 94ᵃ תעזוב י׳ the superfluous verse containing תעזב (Lev. XIX, 10, repeated ib. XXIII, 22); a. fr.—Esp. יתירתא an additional lobe of the lungs. Ḥull. 47ᵃ.—Pl. יַתִּירִין, יַתִּירַיָּא, יַתִּירֵי; f. יַתִּירָתָא, יְתֵי׳. Targ. O. Num. III, 46.—B. Mets. 51ᵃ בדמי י׳ at an extremely high price. Ruth R. to II, 14; Cant. R. to II, 9 אילין י׳ those forty five days more (Dan. XII, 11; 12). Ab. Zar. 9ᵇ sq. ההוא שטרא … שית שנין י׳ a document which contained six years too many (was postdated by six years); a. fr.—Adv. יַתִּיר more. Targ. Ps. XIX, 11; a. e.—בְּיַתִּירְתָּא (= h. יותר מדאי) beyond measure. M. Kat. 27ᵇ הות קא בכיא בי׳ (Ms. M. בתדירתא) she mourned unreasonably. e.g. Leviticus 19:10
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 H3491, 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
- יותר yôwthêr H3148 advantage
- יתר yether H3499 remainder
- יתרון yithrôwn H3504 profit
- יתרת yôthereth H3508 appendage
- מותר môwthâr H4195 abundance
- מיתר mêythâr H4340 cord
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 → Showing 4 of 11 — not the complete family. 3 of the same-root words are proper names (people or places). They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
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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