מֵיתָר
cord
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
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H4340 appears — 9 distinct verses across 5 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
- Exodus 35:18 מֵיתְרֵי/הֶֽם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp the pins of the tent, the pins of the court, and their cords;
- Exodus 39:40 מֵיתָרָ֖י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms the hangings of the court, its pillars, its sockets, the screen for the gate of the court, its cords, its pins, all the instruments of the service of the tent, for the tent of meeting,
Numbers 4 verses
- Numbers 3:26 מֵֽיתָרָ֔י/ו n c mp cs + sfx pers 3ms and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the court, which is by the tabernacle, and around the altar, and its cords for all of its service.
- Numbers 3:37 וּ/מֵֽיתְרֵי/הֶֽם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp the pillars of the court around it, their sockets, their pins, and their cords.
- Numbers 4:26 מֵֽיתְרֵי/הֶ֔ם n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and the hangings of the court, and the screen for the door of the gate of the court, which is by the tabernacle and around the altar, and their cords, and all the instruments of their service, and whatever shall be done with them. Therein shall they serve.
- Numbers 4:32 וּ/מֵ֣יתְרֵי/הֶ֔ם conj + n c mp cs + sfx pers 3mp and the pillars of the court around it, and their sockets, and their pins, and their cords, with all their instruments, and with all their service: and by name you shall appoint the instruments of the charge of their burden.
Psalms 1 verse
Isaiah 1 verse
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.
מיתר (mêythâr) is a Hebrew noun most often rendered “cord.” The King James Version usually renders it “cords,” while modern versions prefer “ropes” (Berean Standard Bible) — see the renderings breakdown. Spanning 9 verses in 5 books, it ranks among the uncommon words of the Hebrew Bible. Numbers dominates its distribution — 4 of 9 verses. Scripture first uses it in Exodus 35:18. The sections below give every sense, occurrence, and version rendering.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H4340 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.
- 5 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 5 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 →
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.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 67%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 2 verses · 22%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 11%
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: Cords 7×
- American Standard Version: Cords 6×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ropes 5×, Along with their ropes 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ropes 7×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H4340 across 9 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 H4340 across 9 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 3 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 H4340 across 9 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.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H4340 across 9 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.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense 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.
- cord, string
Word origin
[ מֵיתָר ] n.m. cord, string
— 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.
מֵיתָר
- cord, rope.—Pl. מֵיתָרִים, מֵיתָרִין. Num. R. s. 12, end. Yalk. Ex. 374; a. e.—[Tanḥ. Ki Thetsé 4 מיתרין, read: מִיטְרִין.]
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 9 distinct written forms H4340 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 |
|---|---|---|---|
| בְּ֝/מֵֽיתָרֶ֗י/ךָ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Psalms 21:12 | 1 |
| וּ/מֵ֣יתְרֵי/הֶ֔ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 4:32 | 1 |
| וּ/מֵֽיתְרֵי/הֶֽם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 3:37 | 1 |
| מֵֽיתְרֵי/הֶ֔ם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 4:26 | 1 |
| מֵֽיתָרַ֔יִ/ךְ | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Isaiah 54:2 | 1 |
| מֵֽיתָרָ֔י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Numbers 3:26 | 1 |
| מֵיתְרֵי/הֶֽם | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 35:18 | 1 |
| מֵיתָרַ֖/י | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Jeremiah 10:20 | 1 |
| מֵיתָרָ֖י/ו | Noun, Common, Masculine, Plural, Construct | Exodus 39:40 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H4340, 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
- יתור yâthûwr H3491 to remain
- יתר yether H3499 remainder
- יתרון yithrôwn H3504 profit
- יתרת yôthereth H3508 appendage
- מותר môwthâr H4195 abundance
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 7 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.
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.
