Yasar יָסַר

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Yasar
יָסַר
Transliterationyasar
Strong's numberH3256
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechverb
Glossto discipline
Occurrences43 in 38 verses
Most frequent inPsalms (8)

Yasar (Hebrew יָסַר, Strong's H3256) is a Hebrew verb meaning “to discipline”. It occurs 43 times in 38 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

1) to chasten, discipline, instruct, admonish
1a)(Qal)
1a1) to chasten, admonish
1a2) to instruct
1a3) to discipline
1b) (Niphal) to let oneself be chastened or corrected or admonished
1c) (Piel)
1c1) to discipline, correct
1c2) to chasten, chastise
1d) (Hiphil) to chasten
1e) (Nithpael) to teach

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVchastise (6), chastised (6), correct (6), instructed (5), instruct (3), chasten (3), chasteneth (2), chastened (2), taught (2), punish (1), reformed (1), chastiseth (1), and 5 other renderings
BSBscourged (3), will scourge (2), discipline me (2), you discipline (2), discipline (2), yet i will discipline you (2), punish (1), accept my discipline (1), will punish (1), discipline you (1), disciplines (1), disciplines you (1), and 21 other renderings

Topics

Verses

Every verse with Yasar, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Leviticus

Deuteronomy

1 Kings

1 Chronicles

2 Chronicles

Job

Psalms

Proverbs

Isaiah

Jeremiah

Ezekiel

Hosea

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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