יַקִּיר
yaqqîyr · H3357 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence
Meanings
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precious, noble
State in which humans are valuable and worthy of respect in the eyes of others
ExamplesJeremiah 31:20 “Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child? Indeed, as often as I have spoken against him, I certainly still remember him; Therefore My heart yearns for him; I will certainly have mercy on him,” declares the LORD.
How it’s used
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
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 2 entries
- Great002001002012
- יַקִּיר describes something held in great esteem, as the LORD calls Ephraim His 'dear son,' a delightful and treasured child (Jeremiah 31:20).
- Complicated002001003004
- יַקִּיר occurs only once, at Jeremiah 31:20 ("Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a delightful child?"), describing something precious or highly valued — a genuine sense of rarity or preciousness.
Word family 6 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3357. yaqqir יַקִּיר adjective intransitive very precious, dear; only אֶפְרַיִם לִי…
יַקִּיר adjective intransitive very precious, dear; only אֶפְרַיִם לִי יַקִּיר הֲבֵן Jer 31:20 is Ephraim a very precious son unto me ? (|| שַׁעֲשׁוּעִים יֶלֶד).
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
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