יָמַר
yâmar · H3235 · Hebrew · 0 occurrences
Meanings
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to boast
Action by which humans utter words about themselves, usually with the purpose of drawing all attention to themselves
This lexeme does not occur in the Old Testament text as tagged in standard critical editions.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Great002001002012
- יָמַר carries a sense of boasting or magnifying oneself, though this form has no attested tagged occurrence, its sense preserved through the related root's usage.
- Exchange002003002010
- יָמַר also carries a sense of exchanging or changing, reflecting the root's broader semantic range even though no tagged occurrence of this exact form survives to illustrate it directly.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3235. yamar ימר verb assumed in Thes to explain Hiph`il הֵימִיר = הֵמִיר Jer 2:11, and…
ימר verb assumed in Thes to explain
Hiph`il הֵימִיר = הֵמִיר Jer 2:11, and
Hithpa`el תִּתְיַמָּ֑רוּ Isa 61:6; but on הימיר see מור (Köi. 457), and תִּתְיַמָּ֑רוּ is probably from אמר q. v. above.
יִמְרָה see below מרה.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
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