Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3148
יוֹתֵר
yotheryo-thare'
advantage
9 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yôwthêr
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3148is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 8spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3148
properly, redundant; hence, over and above, as adjective, noun, adverb or conjunction
The King James renders it: better, more(-over), over, profit.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
yother is rendered "advantage". It stands 9 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- Seven of the uses stand in Ecclesiastes, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 15:15Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”
- The Greek text spells it eight different ways.
The first use
Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”
1 Samuel 15:15הַיּוֹתֵ֖ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seven of the word's nine uses are in Ecclesiastes.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- advantage2
- excess2
- and an advantage1
- and besides1
- and excess1
- excessively1
- the rest1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 9, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
8 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- יוֹתֵ֑ר2
- הַיּוֹתֵ֖ר1
- וְיֹתֵ֖ר1
- וְיֹתֵ֕ר1
- וְיֹתֵ֥ר1
- יוֹתֵ֥ר1
- יּוֹתֵ֥ר1
- יֹּתֵ֖ר1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular5HNcmsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular3HC/Ncmsa
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular1HTd/Ncmsa
1 Samuel
one use
Saul answered, “The troops brought them from the Amalekites; they spared the best sheep and cattle to sacrifice to the LORD your God, but the rest we devoted to destruction.”
- הַיּוֹתֵ֖רhaiyoterthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the rest
Esther
one use
Haman entered, and the king asked him, “What should be done for the man whom the king is delighted to honor?” Now Haman thought to himself, “Whom would the king be delighted to honor more than me?”
- יוֹתֵ֥רyoternoun · masculine singulartagged: excess
Ecclesiastes
seven uses
So I said to myself, “The fate of the fool will also befall me. What then have I gained by being wise?” And I said to myself that this too is futile.
- יוֹתֵ֑רyoternoun · masculine singulartagged: excessively
What advantage, then, has the wise man over the fool? What gain comes to the poor man who knows how to conduct himself before others?
- יּוֹתֵ֥רyoternoun · masculine singulartagged: advantage
For the more words, the more futility—and how does that profit anyone?
- יֹּתֵ֖רyoternoun · masculine singulartagged: advantage
Wisdom, like an inheritance, is good, and it benefits those who see the sun.
- וְיֹתֵ֖רveyoterconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and an advantage
Do not be overly righteous, and do not make yourself too wise. Why should you destroy yourself?
- יוֹתֵ֑רyoternoun · masculine singulartagged: excess
Not only was the Teacher wise, but he also taught the people knowledge; he pondered, searched out, and arranged many proverbs.
- וְיֹתֵ֕רveyoterconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and besides
And by these, my son, be further warned: There is no end to the making of many books, and much study wearies the body.
- וְיֹתֵ֥רveyoterconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and excess
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.