Word

יוֹתֵר

yôwthêr · H3148 · Hebrew · 9 occurrences

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Meanings

remainder, rest

Objects that remains in a certain place after part of the original quantity has disappeared or has been used or dealt with in a certain way

Examples
1 Samuel 15:15 Saul said, “They have brought them from the Amalekites, for the people spared the best of the sheep and oxen to sacrifice to the LORD your God; but the rest we have completely destroyed.”
advantage

Something that is of benefit; often used in rhetorical questions suggesting that nothing is of benefit at all in a certain situation

Examples
Ecclesiastes 6:8 For what advantage does the wise person have over the fool? What does the poor person have, knowing how to walk before the living?
Ecclesiastes 6:11 For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a person?
Ecclesiastes 7:11 Wisdom along with an inheritance is good, And an advantage to those who see the sun.
more, exceedingly

State in which an event is performed to a larger extent than is normally done

Examples
Esther 6:6 Haman then came in and the king said to him, “What is to be done for the man whom the king desires to honor?” And Haman said to himself, “Whom would the king desire to honor more than me?”
Ecclesiastes 2:15 Then I said to myself, “As is the fate of the fool, it will also happen to me. Why then have I been extremely wise?” So I said to myself, “This too is futility.”
Ecclesiastes 7:16 Do not be excessively righteous, and do not be overly wise. Why should you ruin yourself?

How it’s used In 3 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

הָיָהto be, to become 1

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

חָרַםto devote to destruction, to utterly destroy 1

What it is said to bePredicate

2 occurrences in 1 groups

מָהwhat?, why? 2

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

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Semantic domains 3 entries

Objects001: יוֹתֵר can denote a remainder or surplus quantity of a physical thing, as in the 'rest' of the spared Amalekite livestock (1 Samuel 15:15).
Well002001003018: יוֹתֵר expresses advantage or benefit, as in the rhetorical question of what advantage the wise has over the fool (Ecclesiastes 6:8).
Intense002001003011: יוֹתֵר intensifies a comparison, meaning 'more than' or 'exceedingly,' as in Haman's self-flattering thought that the king would honor no one more than him (Esther 6:6).

Word family 9 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

יָתַר yâthar · H3498 · to remain, to be left behind, to be left over · 106×יֶתֶר yether · H3499 · remainder, rest, remnant · 101×יֹתֶרֶת yôthereth · H3508 · appendage of the liver, fat on the liver · 11×יִתְרוֹן yithrôwn · H3504 · advantage · 10×יוֹתֵרyôwthêr · H3148מֵיתָר mêythâr · H4340 · cord, string · 9×מוֹתָר môwthâr · H4195 · advantage · 3×יִתְרָה yithrâh · H3502 · possession, wealth · 2×יָתוּר yâthûwr · H3491 · to spy out, to cause to spy out · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3148. yother יֹתֵר יוֺתֵר, noun masculine superiority, advantage, excess (late)…

H3148. yother
יֹתֵר יוֺתֵר, noun masculine superiority, advantage, excess (late) (properly
Qal participle of יתר) — absolute יוֺתֵר Ecc 7:16 Ecc 7:2t.; יֹתֵר Ecc 2:15 Ecc 2:4t.; — superiority, advantage מִןהַֿכְּסִיל לֶחָכָם מַהיּֿוֺתֵר Ecc 6:8 what advantage hath the wise over the fool? probably also מֵהֵמָּה יֹתֵר Ecc 12:12 (as to) what is more than these (see VB); absolute לָאָדָם מַהיֹּֿתֵר Ecc 6:11; הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ לְרֹאֵי יֹתֵר Ecc 7:11; elsewhere adverb to excess, overmuch Ecc 2:15; Ecc 7:16; followed by מִן (as often in Late Hebrew), מִמֶּנִּי יוֺתֵר Est 6:6 more than me; שֶׁ ׳יֹתֵר = besides that Ecc 12:9.

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 3 entries

Objects1 occurrence Intense5 occurrences Well3 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0