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Strong's H3498 יָתַר (yathar)

Yathar means “excel” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G3498 — nekros (“dead”) in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H3498
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 101
Books 23

Strong's H3498 Quick Answer

Strong's H3498 יָתַר (yathar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. yathar (yaw-thar') v. 1. to jut over or exceed 2. (by implication) to excel It has 101 linked Bible usages across 23 books. Visible English usage signals include left, remain, remained, leave, and over. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
yathar (yaw-thar') v. 1. to jut over or exceed 2. (by implication) to excel
Usage
101 linked usages
Books
23 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
left, remain, remained, leave, and over

Meaning and Definition

yathar (yaw-thar') v. 1. to jut over or exceed 2. (by implication) to excel 3. (intransitively) to remain or be left 4. (causatively) to leave, cause to abound, preserve [a primitive root] KJV: excel, leave (a remnant), left behind, too much, make plenteous, preserve, (be, let) remain(-der, -ing, - nant), reserve, residue, rest.

Original Word
יָתַר
Transliteration
yathar
Derivation
Root: יתר
Morphology
verb

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H3498. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)

to remain

Usage: 1) to be left over, remain, remain over, leave 1a) (Qal) remainder (participle) 1b) (Niphal) to be left over, remain over, be left behind 1c) (Hiphil) 1c1) to leave over, leave 1c2) to save over, preserve alive 1c3) to excel, show pre-eminence 1c4) to show excess, have more than enough, have an excess

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How Strong's H3498 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render yathar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

left Genesis 32:24 41× remain Exodus 12:10 14× remained Exodus 10:15 leave Exodus 16:19 over Deuteronomy 30:9 remaineth Leviticus 8:32 excel Genesis 49:4 preserve Psalms 79:11 remaining Joshua 21:40

How Strong's H3498 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 101 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H3498 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H3498 in the Old Testament

101 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 30:36 KJV

And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.

Genesis 32:24 KJV

And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.

Genesis 44:20 KJV

And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.

Usage Excerpts

First 101 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H3498.

Genesis 30:36 Old Testament, KJV
And he set three days' journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban's flocks.
Genesis 32:24 Old Testament, KJV
And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.
Genesis 44:20 Old Testament, KJV
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Genesis 49:4 Old Testament, KJV
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father's bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
Exodus 10:15 Old Testament, KJV
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
Exodus 12:10 Old Testament, KJV
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exodus 16:19 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses said, Let no man leave of it till the morning.
Exodus 16:20 Old Testament, KJV
Notwithstanding they hearkened not unto Moses; but some of them left of it until the morning, and it bred worms, and stank: and Moses was wroth with them.
Exodus 28:10 Old Testament, KJV
Six of their names on one stone, and the other six names of the rest on the other stone, according to their birth.
Exodus 29:34 Old Testament, KJV
And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
Exodus 36:7 Old Testament, KJV
For the stuff they had was sufficient for all the work to make it, and too much.
Leviticus 2:3 Old Testament, KJV
And the remnant of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
Leviticus 2:10 Old Testament, KJV
And that which is left of the meat offering shall be Aaron's and his sons': it is a thing most holy of the offerings of the LORD made by fire.
Leviticus 6:16 Old Testament, KJV
And the remainder thereof shall Aaron and his sons eat: with unleavened bread shall it be eaten in the holy place; in the court of the tabernacle of the congregation they shall eat it.
Leviticus 7:16 Old Testament, KJV
But if the sacrifice of his offering be a vow, or a voluntary offering, it shall be eaten the same day that he offereth his sacrifice: and on the morrow also the remainder of it shall be eaten:
Leviticus 7:17 Old Testament, KJV
But the remainder of the flesh of the sacrifice on the third day shall be burnt with fire.
Leviticus 8:32 Old Testament, KJV
And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
Leviticus 10:12 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses spake unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons that were left, Take the meat offering that remaineth of the offerings of the LORD made by fire, and eat it without leaven beside the altar: for it is most holy:
Leviticus 10:16 Old Testament, KJV
And Moses diligently sought the goat of the sin offering, and, behold, it was burnt: and he was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, the sons of Aaron which were left alive, saying,
Leviticus 14:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the remnant of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall pour upon the head of him that is to be cleansed: and the priest shall make an atonement for him before the LORD.
Leviticus 14:29 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the oil that is in the priest's hand he shall put upon the head of him that is to be cleansed, to make an atonement for him before the LORD.
Leviticus 19:6 Old Testament, KJV
It shall be eaten the same day ye offer it, and on the morrow: and if ought remain until the third day, it shall be burnt in the fire.
Leviticus 22:30 Old Testament, KJV
On the same day it shall be eaten up; ye shall leave none of it until the morrow: I am the LORD.
Leviticus 27:18 Old Testament, KJV
But if he sanctify his field after the jubile, then the priest shall reckon unto him the money according to the years that remain, even unto the year of the jubile, and it shall be abated from thy estimation.
Numbers 26:65 Old Testament, KJV
For the LORD had said of them, They shall surely die in the wilderness. And there was not left a man of them, save Caleb the son of Jephunneh, and Joshua the son of Nun.
Numbers 33:55 Old Testament, KJV
But if ye will not drive out the inhabitants of the land from before you; then it shall come to pass, that those which ye let remain of them shall be pricks in your eyes, and thorns in your sides, and shall vex you in the land wherein ye dwell.
Deuteronomy 28:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD shall make thee plenteous in goods, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy ground, in the land which the LORD sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
Deuteronomy 28:54 Old Testament, KJV
So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
Deuteronomy 30:9 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD thy God will make thee plenteous in every work of thine hand, in the fruit of thy body, and in the fruit of thy cattle, and in the fruit of thy land, for good: for the LORD will again rejoice over thee for good, as he rejoiced over thy fathers:
Joshua 11:11 Old Testament, KJV
And they smote all the souls that were therein with the edge of the sword, utterly destroying them: there was not any left to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire.
Joshua 11:22 Old Testament, KJV
There was none of the Anakims left in the land of the children of Israel: only in Gaza, in Gath, and in Ashdod, there remained.
Joshua 17:2 Old Testament, KJV
There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
Joshua 17:6 Old Testament, KJV
Because the daughters of Manasseh had an inheritance among his sons: and the rest of Manasseh's sons had the land of Gilead.
Joshua 18:2 Old Testament, KJV
And there remained among the children of Israel seven tribes, which had not yet received their inheritance.
Joshua 21:5 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the children of Kohath had by lot out of the families of the tribe of Ephraim, and out of the tribe of Dan, and out of the half tribe of Manasseh, ten cities.
Joshua 21:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the families of the children of Kohath, the Levites which remained of the children of Kohath, even they had the cities of their lot out of the tribe of Ephraim.
Joshua 21:26 Old Testament, KJV
All the cities were ten with their suburbs for the families of the children of Kohath that remained.
Joshua 21:34 Old Testament, KJV
And unto the families of the children of Merari, the rest of the Levites, out of the tribe of Zebulun, Jokneam with her suburbs, and Kartah with her suburbs,
Joshua 21:40 Old Testament, KJV
So all the cities for the children of Merari by their families, which were remaining of the families of the Levites, were by their lot twelve cities.
Judges 8:10 Old Testament, KJV
Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor, and their hosts with them, about fifteen thousand men, all that were left of all the hosts of the children of the east: for there fell an hundred and twenty thousand men that drew sword.
Judges 9:5 Old Testament, KJV
And he went unto his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brethren the sons of Jerubbaal, being threescore and ten persons, upon one stone: notwithstanding yet Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left; for he hid himself.
Judges 21:7 Old Testament, KJV
How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing we have sworn by the LORD that we will not give them of our daughters to wives?
Judges 21:16 Old Testament, KJV
Then the elders of the congregation said, How shall we do for wives for them that remain, seeing the women are destroyed out of Benjamin?
Ruth 2:14 Old Testament, KJV
And Boaz said unto her, At mealtime come thou hither, and eat of the bread, and dip thy morsel in the vinegar. And she sat beside the reapers: and he reached her parched corn, and she did eat, and was sufficed, and left.
Ruth 2:18 Old Testament, KJV
And she took it up, and went into the city: and her mother in law saw what she had gleaned: and she brought forth, and gave to her that she had reserved after she was sufficed.
1 Samuel 2:36 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left in thine house shall come and crouch to him for a piece of silver and a morsel of bread, and shall say, Put me, I pray thee, into one of the priests' offices, that I may eat a piece of bread.
1 Samuel 15:15 Old Testament, KJV
And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.
1 Samuel 25:34 Old Testament, KJV
For in very deed, as the LORD God of Israel liveth, which hath kept me back from hurting thee, except thou hadst hasted and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by the morning light any that pisseth against the wall.
1 Samuel 30:9 Old Testament, KJV
So David went, he and the six hundred men that were with him, and came to the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed.
2 Samuel 8:4 Old Testament, KJV
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven hundred horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: and David houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for an hundred chariots.
2 Samuel 9:1 Old Testament, KJV
And David said, Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may shew him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
2 Samuel 13:30 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, while they were in the way, that tidings came to David, saying, Absalom hath slain all the king's sons, and there is not one of them left.
2 Samuel 17:12 Old Testament, KJV
So shall we come upon him in some place where he shall be found, and we will light upon him as the dew falleth on the ground: and of him and of all the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one.
1 Kings 9:20 Old Testament, KJV
And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, which were not of the children of Israel,
1 Kings 9:21 Old Testament, KJV
Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel also were not able utterly to destroy, upon those did Solomon levy a tribute of bondservice unto this day.
1 Kings 15:18 Old Testament, KJV
Then Asa took all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king's house, and delivered them into the hand of his servants: and king Asa sent them to Benhadad, the son of Tabrimon, the son of Hezion, king of Syria, that dwelt at Damascus, saying,
1 Kings 17:17 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass after these things, that the son of the woman, the mistress of the house, fell sick; and his sickness was so sore, that there was no breath left in him.
1 Kings 18:22 Old Testament, KJV
Then said Elijah unto the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; but Baal's prophets are four hundred and fifty men.
1 Kings 19:10 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: for the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings 19:14 Old Testament, KJV
And he said, I have been very jealous for the LORD God of hosts: because the children of Israel have forsaken thy covenant, thrown down thine altars, and slain thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life, to take it away.
1 Kings 20:30 Old Testament, KJV
But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon twenty and seven thousand of the men that were left. And Benhadad fled, and came into the city, into an inner chamber.
2 Kings 4:7 Old Testament, KJV
Then she came and told the man of God. And he said, Go, sell the oil, and pay thy debt, and live thou and thy children of the rest.
2 Kings 4:43 Old Testament, KJV
And his servitor said, What, should I set this before an hundred men? He said again, Give the people, that they may eat: for thus saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave thereof.
2 Kings 4:44 Old Testament, KJV
So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD.
2 Kings 20:17 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store unto this day, shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
1 Chronicles 6:61 Old Testament, KJV
And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half tribe, namely, out of the half tribe of Manasseh, by lot, ten cities.
1 Chronicles 6:70 Old Testament, KJV
And out of the half tribe of Manasseh; Aner with her suburbs, and Bileam with her suburbs, for the family of the remnant of the sons of Kohath.
1 Chronicles 6:77 Old Testament, KJV
Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon with her suburbs, Tabor with her suburbs:
1 Chronicles 18:4 Old Testament, KJV
And David took from him a thousand chariots, and seven thousand horsemen, and twenty thousand footmen: David also houghed all the chariot horses, but reserved of them an hundred chariots.
1 Chronicles 24:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael; Jehdeiah.
2 Chronicles 8:7 Old Testament, KJV
As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites, and the Jebusites, which were not of Israel,
2 Chronicles 8:8 Old Testament, KJV
But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel consumed not, them did Solomon make to pay tribute until this day.
2 Chronicles 31:10 Old Testament, KJV
And Azariah the chief priest of the house of Zadok answered him, and said, Since the people began to bring the offerings into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is this great store.
Nehemiah 6:1 Old Testament, KJV
Now it came to pass when Sanballat, and Tobiah, and Geshem the Arabian, and the rest of our enemies, heard that I had builded the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time I had not set up the doors upon the gates;)
Psalms 79:11 Old Testament, KJV
Let the sighing of the prisoner come before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;
Psalms 106:11 Old Testament, KJV
And the waters covered their enemies: there was not one of them left.
Proverbs 2:21 Old Testament, KJV
For the upright shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain in it.
Isaiah 1:8 Old Testament, KJV
And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged city.
Isaiah 1:9 Old Testament, KJV
Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom, and we should have been like unto Gomorrah.
Isaiah 4:3 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, that he that is left in Zion, and he that remaineth in Jerusalem, shall be called holy, even every one that is written among the living in Jerusalem:
Isaiah 7:22 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, for the abundance of milk that they shall give he shall eat butter: for butter and honey shall every one eat that is left in the land.
Isaiah 30:17 Old Testament, KJV
One thousand shall flee at the rebuke of one; at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: till ye be left as a beacon upon the top of a mountain, and as an ensign on an hill.
Isaiah 39:6 Old Testament, KJV
Behold, the days come, that all that is in thine house, and that which thy fathers have laid up in store until this day, shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD.
Jeremiah 27:18 Old Testament, KJV
But if they be prophets, and if the word of the LORD be with them, let them now make intercession to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah, and at Jerusalem, go not to Babylon.
Jeremiah 27:19 Old Testament, KJV
For thus saith the LORD of hosts concerning the pillars, and concerning the sea, and concerning the bases, and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city.
Jeremiah 27:21 Old Testament, KJV
Yea, thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king of Judah and of Jerusalem;
Jeremiah 34:7 Old Testament, KJV
When the king of Babylon's army fought against Jerusalem, and against all the cities of Judah that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah: for these defenced cities remained of the cities of Judah.
Jeremiah 44:7 Old Testament, KJV
Therefore now thus saith the LORD, the God of hosts, the God of Israel; Wherefore commit ye this great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;
Ezekiel 6:8 Old Testament, KJV
Yet will I leave a remnant, that ye may have some that shall escape the sword among the nations, when ye shall be scattered through the countries.
Ezekiel 12:16 Old Testament, KJV
But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine, and from the pestilence; that they may declare all their abominations among the heathen whither they come; and they shall know that I am the LORD.
Ezekiel 14:22 Old Testament, KJV
Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth unto you, and ye shall see their way and their doings: and ye shall be comforted concerning the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem, even concerning all that I have brought upon it.
Ezekiel 34:18 Old Testament, KJV
Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?
Ezekiel 39:14 Old Testament, KJV
And they shall sever out men of continual employment, passing through the land to bury with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse it: after the end of seven months shall they search.
Ezekiel 39:28 Old Testament, KJV
Then shall they know that I am the LORD their God, which caused them to be led into captivity among the heathen: but I have gathered them unto their own land, and have left none of them any more there.
Ezekiel 48:15 Old Testament, KJV
And the five thousand, that are left in the breadth over against the five and twenty thousand, shall be a profane place for the city, for dwelling, and for suburbs: and the city shall be in the midst thereof.
Ezekiel 48:18 Old Testament, KJV
And the residue in length over against the oblation of the holy portion shall be ten thousand eastward, and ten thousand westward: and it shall be over against the oblation of the holy portion; and the increase thereof shall be for food unto them that serve the city.
Ezekiel 48:21 Old Testament, KJV
And the residue shall be for the prince, on the one side and on the other of the holy oblation, and of the possession of the city, over against the five and twenty thousand of the oblation toward the east border, and westward over against the five and twenty thousand toward the west border, over against the portions for the prince: and it shall be the holy oblation; and the sanctuary of the house shall be in the midst thereof.
Daniel 10:13 Old Testament, KJV
But the prince of the kingdom of Persia withstood me one and twenty days: but, lo, Michael, one of the chief princes, came to help me; and I remained there with the kings of Persia.
Amos 6:9 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Zechariah 13:8 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, that in all the land, saith the LORD, two parts therein shall be cut off and die; but the third shall be left therein.
Zechariah 14:16 Old Testament, KJV
And it shall come to pass, that every one that is left of all the nations which came against Jerusalem shall even go up from year to year to worship the King, the LORD of hosts, and to keep the feast of tabernacles.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H3498, grouped by book.

Genesis 4 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 7 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 13 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 2 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 3 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 10 usages, Old Testament
Judges 4 usages, Old Testament
Ruth 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
2 Samuel 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 8 usages, Old Testament
2 Kings 4 usages, Old Testament
1 Chronicles 5 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 3 usages, Old Testament
Nehemiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Psalms 2 usages, Old Testament
Proverbs 1 usage, Old Testament
Isaiah 6 usages, Old Testament
Jeremiah 5 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 9 usages, Old Testament
Daniel 1 usage, Old Testament
Amos 1 usage, Old Testament
Zechariah 2 usages, Old Testament

Strong's H3498 FAQ

What does yathar (יָתַר) mean?

Yathar (Strong's H3498) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "excel". yathar (yaw-thar') v. 1. to jut over or exceed 2. (by implication) to excel

How many times is yathar (יָתַר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 101 linked usages for Strong's H3498 across 23 books.

Where can I study yathar (יָתַר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H3498 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate yathar (יָתַר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as left, remain, remained, leave, over, and remaineth. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.