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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

Shown in the King James Version (KJV), whichever translation you read in — it is the text these numbers are tagged against.

  • Jeremiah 10:24
    O LORD, correct me, but with judgment; not in thine anger, lest thou bring me to nothing.
  • Jeremiah 30:11
    For I am with thee, saith the LORD, to save thee: though I make a full end of all nations whither I have scattered thee, yet will I not make a full end of thee: but I will correct thee in measure, and will not leave thee altogether unpunished.
  • Jeremiah 31:18
    I have surely heard Ephraim bemoaning himself thus; Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; for thou art the LORD my God.
  • Jeremiah 46:28
    Fear thou not, O Jacob my servant, saith the LORD: for I am with thee; for I will make a full end of all the nations whither I have driven thee: but I will not make a full end of thee, but correct thee in measure; yet will I not leave thee wholly unpunished.
  • Ezekiel 23:48
    Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
  • Hosea 7:12
    When they shall go, I will spread my net upon them; I will bring them down as the fowls of the heaven; I will chastise them, as their congregation hath heard.
  • Hosea 7:15
    Though I have bound and strengthened their arms, yet do they imagine mischief against me.
  • Hosea 10:10
    It is in my desire that I should chastise them; and the people shall be gathered against them, when they shall bind themselves in their two furrows.