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 in the Book of Jeremiah — 1 distinct verse. 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.
Jeremiah
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.
