3148. yother
Strong's Concordance
yother: superiority, advantage, excess
Original Word: יוֹתֵר
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Transliteration: yother
Phonetic Spelling: (yo-thare')
Definition: superiority, advantage, excess
NAS Exhaustive Concordance
Word Origin
active participle of yathar
Definition
superiority, advantage, excess
NASB Translation
addition (1), advantage (3), beyond (1), extremely (1), more (1), overly (1).

Brown-Driver-Briggs
יוֺתֵר, יֹתֵר noun masculine superiority, advantage, excess (late) (properly

Qal participle of יתר) — absolute יוֺתֵר Ecclesiastes 7:16 2t.; יֹתֵר Ecclesiastes 2:15 4t.; — superiority, advantage מַהיּֿוֺתֵר לֶחָכָם מִןהַֿכְּסִיל Ecclesiastes 6:8 what advantage hath the wise over the fool? probably also יֹתֵר מֵהֵמָּה Ecclesiastes 12:12 (as to) what is more than these (see VB); absolute מַהיֹּֿתֵר לָאָדָם Ecclesiastes 6:11; יֹתֵר לְרֹאֵי הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ Ecclesiastes 7:11; elsewhere adverb to excess, overmuch Ecclesiastes 2:15; Ecclesiastes 7:16; followed by מִן (as often in Late Hebrew), יוֺתֵר מִמֶּנִּי Esther 6:6 more than me; ׳יֹתֵר שֶׁ = besides that Ecclesiastes 12:9.

Strong's Exhaustive Concordance
better, moreover, over, profit

Active participle of yathar; properly, redundant; hence, over and above, as adjective, noun, adverb or conjunction (as follows) -- better, more(-over), over, profit.

see HEBREW yathar

Forms and Transliterations
וְיֹתֵ֕ר וְיֹתֵ֖ר וְיֹתֵ֥ר ויתר יֹּתֵ֖ר יּוֹתֵ֥ר יוֹתֵ֑ר יוֹתֵ֥ר יותר יתר veyoTer wə·yō·ṯêr wəyōṯêr yō·ṯêr yō·w·ṯêr yoTer yōṯêr yōwṯêr
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Esther 6:6
HEB: לַעֲשׂ֥וֹת יְקָ֖ר יוֹתֵ֥ר מִמֶּֽנִּי׃
NAS: desire to honor more than me?
KJV: to do honour more than to myself?
INT: is to be done to honor more than

Ecclesiastes 2:15
HEB: אֲנִ֖י אָ֣ז יוֹתֵ֑ר וְדִבַּ֣רְתִּי בְלִבִּ֔י
NAS: have I been extremely wise?
KJV: even to me; and why was I then more wise?
INT: I then extremely said to myself

Ecclesiastes 6:8
HEB: כִּ֛י מַה־ יּוֹתֵ֥ר לֶחָכָ֖ם מִֽן־
NAS: For what advantage does the wise man
KJV: For what hath the wise more than the fool?
INT: For what advantage the wise have over

Ecclesiastes 6:11
HEB: הָ֑בֶל מַה־ יֹּתֵ֖ר לָאָדָֽם׃
NAS: What [then] is the advantage to a man?
KJV: vanity, what [is] man the better?
INT: futility What is the advantage what man

Ecclesiastes 7:11
HEB: עִֽם־ נַחֲלָ֑ה וְיֹתֵ֖ר לְרֹאֵ֥י הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃
NAS: is good And an advantage to those who see
KJV: with an inheritance: and [by it there is] profit to them that see
INT: along an inheritance and an advantage see the sun

Ecclesiastes 7:16
HEB: וְאַל־ תִּתְחַכַּ֖ם יוֹתֵ֑ר לָ֖מָּה תִּשּׁוֹמֵֽם׃
NAS: righteous and do not be overly wise.
KJV: over much; neither make thyself over wise:
INT: nay wise not be overly Why ruin

Ecclesiastes 12:9
HEB: וְיֹתֵ֕ר שֶׁהָיָ֥ה קֹהֶ֖לֶת
NAS: In addition to being a wise man,
KJV: And moreover, because the preacher
INT: addition to being the Preacher

Ecclesiastes 12:12
HEB: וְיֹתֵ֥ר מֵהֵ֖מָּה בְּנִ֣י
NAS: But beyond this, my son,
KJV: And further, by these, my son,
INT: beyond this my son

8 Occurrences

Strong's Hebrew 3148
8 Occurrences


wə·yō·ṯêr — 3 Occ.
yō·w·ṯêr — 5 Occ.
















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