Strong's #3498: yathar (pronounced yaw-thar')
a primitive root; to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively, to leave, cause to abound, preserve:--excel, leave (a remnant), left behind, too much, make plenteous, preserve, (be, let) remain(-der, -ing, - nant), reserve, residue, rest.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:
yâthar
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
Part of Speech: verb
Relation: a primitive root
Usage:
This word is used 107 times:
1 Samuel 15:15: "of the sheep to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed."
1 Samuel 25:34: "and come to meet me, surely there had not been left unto Nabal by"
1 Samuel 30:9: "the brook Besor, where those that were left behind stayed."
2 Samuel 8:4: "hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them for a hundred chariots."
2 Samuel 9:1: "Is there yet any that is left of the house of Saul, that I may show"
2 Samuel 13:30: "and there is not one of them left."
2 Samuel 17:12: "the men that are with him there shall not be left so much as one."
1 Kings 9:20: "And all the people that were left of the Amorites, Hittites, Perizzites, Hivites,"
1 Kings 9:21: "Their children that were left after them in the land, whom the children of Israel"
1 Kings 15:18: "all the silver and the gold that were left in the treasures of the house and the treasures"
1 Kings 17:17: "that there was no breath left"
1 Kings 18:22: "the people, I, even I only, remain a prophet of the LORD; prophets"
1 Kings 19:10: "thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life,"
1 Kings 19:14: "thy prophets with the sword; and I, even I only, am left; and they seek my life,"
1 Kings 20:30: " But the rest fled to Aphek, into the city; and there a wall fell upon"
1 Kings 20:30: "thousand of the men that were left. And Ben-hadad fled, and came into"
2 Kings 4:7: "and live thou and thy children of the rest."
2 Kings 4:43: "saith the LORD, They shall eat, and shall leave"
2 Kings 4:44: "So he set it before them, and they did eat, and left thereof, according to the word of the LORD."
2 Kings 20:17: "shall be carried into Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD."
1 Chronicles 6:61: "And unto the sons of Kohath, which were left of the family of that tribe, were cities given out of the half"
1 Chronicles 6:70: "and Bileam with her suburbs, of the remnant of the sons of Kohath."
1 Chronicles 6:77: " Unto the rest of the children of Merari were given out of the tribe of Zebulun, Rimmon"
1 Chronicles 18:4: "also hamstrung all the chariot horses, but reserved of them a hundred chariots."
1 Chronicles 24:20: " And the rest of the sons of Levi were these: Of the sons of Amram; Shubael: of the sons of Shubael;"
2 Chronicles 8:7: "As for all the people that were left of the Hittites, and the Amorites, and the Perizzites, and the Hivites,"
2 Chronicles 8:8: "But of their children, who were left after them in the land, whom the children"
2 Chronicles 31:10: "into the house of the LORD, we have had enough to eat, and have left plenty:"
2 Chronicles 31:10: "plenty: for the LORD hath blessed his people; and that which is left is"
Nehemiah 6:1: "the wall, and that there was no breach left therein; (though at that time"
Psalms 79:11: "before thee; according to the greatness of thy power preserve thou those that are appointed to die;"
Psalms 106:11: "there was not one of them left."
Proverbs 2:21: "shall dwell in the land, and the perfect shall remain"
Isaiah 1:8: "And the daughter of Zion is left as a cottage in a vineyard, as a lodge in a garden of cucumbers, as a besieged"
Isaiah 1:9: "Except the LORD of hosts had left unto us a very small remnant, we should have been as Sodom,"
Isaiah 4:3: "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"
Isaiah 7:22: "butter and honey eat that is left in the land."
Isaiah 30:17: "at the rebuke of five shall ye flee: ye be left as a beacon"
Isaiah 39:6: "shall be carried to Babylon: nothing shall be left, saith the LORD."
Jeremiah 27:18: "to the LORD of hosts, that the vessels which are left in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king"
Jeremiah 27:19: "and concerning the residue of the vessels that remain in this city,"
Jeremiah 27:21: "of Israel, concerning the vessels that remain in the house of the LORD, and in the house of the king"
Jeremiah 34:7: "all the cities that were left, against Lachish, and against Azekah:"
Jeremiah 44:7: "and suckling, out of Judah, to leave you none to remain;"
Ezekiel 6:8: " 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: " But I will leave a few men of them from the sword, from the famine,"
Ezekiel 14:22: "Yet, behold, therein shall be left a remnant that shall be brought forth, both sons and daughters: behold, they shall come forth"
Ezekiel 34:18: "of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?"
Ezekiel 39:14: "with the passengers those that remain upon the face of the earth, to cleanse"
Ezekiel 39:28: "but I have gathered their own land, and have left none of them any more there."
