יָרָה
yârâh · yaw-raw'
properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
Lexicon
Derivation: or (2 Chronicles 26:15) יָרָא; a primitive root;
properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
- properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain)
- transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot)
- figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: ([phrase]) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
Letters
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
The hand that works of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָרָה above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
80 occurrences · 80 OT · 0 NT · 74 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- teach4 · 11%
- shot3 · 8%
- and the archers3 · 8%
- and he will teach2 · 5%
- shoot2 · 5%
- nor shoot2 · 5%
- of the archers2 · 5%
- shall teach2 · 5%
- and they shall teach2 · 5%
- hath he cast1 · 3%
- they shall teach1 · 3%
- and will teach1 · 3%
- and teach1 · 3%
- shewed1 · 3%
- according to all that they inform1 · 3%
- we have shot1 · 3%
- to teach1 · 3%
- and that ye may teach1 · 3%
- that he may teach1 · 3%
- that thou mayest teach1 · 3%
- through1 · 3%
- which they shall teach1 · 3%
- to direct1 · 3%
- the description hither to me, that i may cast1 · 3%
- which i have cast1 · 3%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.