יָרַע
yâraʻ · yaw-rah'
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
Lexicon
Derivation: a primitive root;
properly, to be broken up (with any violent action) i.e. (figuratively) to fear
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: be grevious (only Isaiah 15:4; the rest belong to H7489 (רָעַע)).
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
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
the hand that works › the head, the highest › to see and know
The hand that works of the head, the highest that works to see and know.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of יָרַע 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
2 occurrences · 2 OT · 0 NT · 2 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- displeased4 · 18%
- shall be evil2 · 9%
- grievous1 · 5%
- let it not be grievous1 · 5%
- it displeased1 · 5%
- shall not be grieved1 · 5%
- grieved1 · 5%
- displease1 · 5%
- do us more harm1 · 5%
- was displeased1 · 5%
- be sad1 · 5%
- of it, it grieved1 · 5%
- and it grieved1 · 5%
- him; it shall go ill1 · 5%
- so that it went ill1 · 5%
- shall be grievous1 · 5%
- it, and it displeased1 · 5%
- but it displeased1 · 5%
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.