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יָסַר (H3256)

yâçar

yaw-sar'

a primitive root; to chastise, literally (with blows) or figuratively (with words); hence, to instruct; bind, chasten, chastise, correct, instruct, punish, reform, reprove, sore, teach.

Brown–Driver–Briggs

[יָסַר] vb. discipline, chasten, admonish
Qal
1 admonish
2 instruct
3 discipline
Niph. let oneself be corrected, admonished
Pi.
1 discipline, correct (the moral nature, with more or less severity acc. to circumstances)
2 more severely, chasten, chastise
Nithp. pass. be disciplined, corrected
Hiph. chasten

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


38 occurrences

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  • 2 Chronicles 10:11
    For whereas my father put a heavy yoke upon you, I will put more to your yoke: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
  • 2 Chronicles 10:14
    And answered them after the advice of the young men, saying, My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add thereto: my father chastised you with whips, but I will chastise you with scorpions.
  • Job 4:3
    Behold, thou hast instructed many, and thou hast strengthened the weak hands.
  • Psalms 2:10
    Be wise now therefore, O ye kings: be instructed, ye judges of the earth.
  • Psalms 6:1
    To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thine anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
  • Psalms 16:7
    I will bless the LORD, who hath given me counsel: my reins also instruct me in the night seasons.
  • Psalms 38:1
    A Psalm of David, to bring to remembrance. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy wrath: neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.
  • Psalms 39:11
    When thou with rebukes dost correct man for iniquity, thou makest his beauty to consume away like a moth: surely every man is vanity. Selah.
  • Psalms 94:10
    He that chastiseth the heathen, shall not he correct? he that teacheth man knowledge, shall not he know?
  • Psalms 94:12
    Blessed is the man whom thou chastenest, O LORD, and teachest him out of thy law;