Word

יָרַט

yâraṭ · H3399 · Hebrew · 2 occurrences

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Meanings

Meaning unsure; possibly: action by which humans move in a certain direction with speed and without thinking of the consequences (to make straight (for something), to move recklessly)

Examples
Numbers 22:32 Then the angel of the LORD said to him, “Why have you struck your donkey these three times? Behold, I have come out as an adversary, because your way was reckless and contrary to me.
Exact meaning unsure; possibly: to cast (someone) forcibly on the hands (of someone else); hence: causative process by which deities use force to deliver humans in the hands of others (to thrust (someone) into the clutches (of someone else))

Examples
Job 16:11 “God hands me over to criminals, And tosses me into the hands of the wicked.

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

Who or what does itSubject

2 occurrences in 2 groups

דֶּרֶךְway, road 1
Not stated: he, she or it 1

What it acts on, or what is saidObject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

נִיme 1

With prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

עַלon, upon, over, against+ יָדhand, power 1

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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Near synonyms 2 words

עָוָה ʻâvâh · H5753 · to twist, to be bowed down: Hebrew verb for being crooked or perverted, semantically parallel to יָרַט in expressing perversity or deviation from the straight/right path.
הָפַךְ hâphak · H2015 · to turn, to turn around, to turn back: Hebrew verb for turning over or overturning, matching both the physical 'turn over' and moral 'pervert' senses of יָרַט.

Contrasting words 1 word

יָשַׁר yâshar · H3474 · to make straight, to make smooth, to make level: Hebrew verb meaning to be straight or upright, the direct lexical opposite of 'be perverse' in the moral and spatial senses.

In the other Testament 2 words

στρέφω stréphō · G4762 · to turn, to change, to turn into: Greek verb for turning or overturning, matching the 'turn over' sense of יָרַט; commonly used for physical and metaphorical turning.
διαστρέφω diastréphō · G1294 · to cause someone to turn away from a belief, to mislead, to lead astray: Greek verb specifically for perverting or making crooked, directly matching the 'be perverse' sense of יָרַט.

Semantic domains 2 entries

Move002002001012: The verb describes a reckless or wayward course, as when the donkey's way was described as reckless and contrary in Numbers 22:32.
Control002003002007: The verb's sense of turning aside or acting perversely reflects a loss of proper control or direction, in keeping with its glossed meaning "be perverse."

Word family 2 words

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

יָרַטyâraṭ · H3399מוֹרָט môwrâṭ · H4178 · to lose hair, to pluck, to pull out · 0×

Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H3399. yarat יָרַט verb be precipitate, precipitate (transitive) (compare Arabic…

H3399. yarat
יָרַט verb be precipitate, precipitate (transitive) (compare Arabic conjecit, praecipitem dedit in puteum, exitium, Frey.) —
Qal Perfect יָרַט Num 22:32, app. with subject הַדֶּרֶךְ; the way is precipitate, (RVm headlong) before me, but transitive ירטני רשׁעים עליֿדי Job 16:11 into the hands of wicked men he precipitates me (see Di; יִרְטֵנִי = יִָֽרְטֵנִי; Baer's text יִרְטֵנִי points to √ רטה q. v.); hence perhaps read יָרַטְתָּ Num 22:32; thou hast precipitated the journey in front of me, i.e. rushed recklessly in front of me; see Di; KauAT leaves untransl.
[רָטָה] verb (dubious) wring out (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew (si vera lectio, see LevyNHWB iv. 444 and references)); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular suffix יִרְטֵנִי Job 16:11 upon the hands of wicked men he wrings me out, but read probably ׳יִָֽרְ √ יָרַט (Di Bu Du and others), q. v.
רטט (Aramaic רְטֵט tremble, rare, derived species).

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries

Move1 occurrence Control1 occurrence

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