Hebrew verb · H3365
יָקַר
yaqaryaw-kar'
be precious
11 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: yâqar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3365is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3365
properly, apparently, to be heavy, i.e. (figuratively) valuable; causatively, to make rare (figuratively, to inhibit)
The King James renders it: be (make) precious, be prized, be set by, withdraw.
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
yaqar is rendered "be precious". It stands 11 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Three of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.1 Samuel 18:30Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.
1 Samuel 18:30וַיִּיקַ֥ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- let it be precious2
- and it was esteemed1
- and may it be precious1
- I was valued1
- I will make precious1
- it was precious1
- make rare1
- so it may be costly1
- they are precious1
- you are precious1
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 11, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- אוֹקִ֥יר1
- הֹקַ֣ר1
- וְיֵיקַ֖ר1
- וַיִּיקַ֥ר1
- וְ֭יֵקַר1
- יָקְרָ֥ה1
- יָּקְר֣וּ1
- יָקַ֧רְתָּ1
- יָקַ֖רְתִּי1
- תִּיקַ֥ר1
- תִּֽיקַר־1
The grammar of each form
- HC/Vqu3ms2HC/Vqu3ms
- verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular2HVqi3fs
- Hc/Vqw3ms1Hc/Vqw3ms
- verb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singular1HVhi1cs
- verb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singular1HVhv2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singular1HVqp1cs
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural1HVqp3cp
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular1HVqp3fs
1 Samuel
two uses
Every time the Philistine commanders came out for battle, David was more successful than all of Saul’s officers, so that his name was highly esteemed.
- וַיִּיקַ֥רvaiyikarHc/Vqw3mstagged: and it was esteemed
Then Saul replied, “I have sinned. Come back, David my son. I will never harm you again, because today you considered my life precious. I have played the fool and have committed a grave error!”
- יָקְרָ֥הyakerahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it was precious
2 Kings
two uses
So the king sent a third captain with his fifty men. And the third captain went up, fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, “Man of God, may my life and the lives of these fifty servants please be precious in your sight.
- תִּֽיקַר־tikar-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: let it be precious
Behold, fire has come down from heaven and consumed the first two captains of fifty, with all their men. But now may my life be precious in your sight.”
- תִּיקַ֥רtikarverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: let it be precious
Psalms
three uses
For the redemption of his soul is costly, and never can payment suffice,
- וְ֭יֵקַרveyekarHC/Vqu3mstagged: so it may be costly
He will redeem them from oppression and violence, for their blood is precious in his sight.
- וְיֵיקַ֖רveyeikarHC/Vqu3mstagged: and may it be precious
How precious to me are Your thoughts, O God, how vast is their sum!
- יָּקְר֣וּyakeruverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they are precious
Proverbs
one use
Seldom set foot in your neighbor’s house, lest he grow weary and hate you.
- הֹקַ֣רhokarverb · causative (hiphil), command · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: make rare
Isaiah
two uses
I will make man scarcer than pure gold, and mankind rarer than the gold of Ophir.
- אוֹקִ֥ירʾokirverb · causative (hiphil), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I will make precious
Because you are precious and honored in My sight, and because I love you, I will give men in exchange for you and nations in place of your life.
- יָקַ֧רְתָּyakartaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you are precious
Zechariah
one use
And the LORD said to me, “Throw it to the potter”—this magnificent price at which they valued me. So I took the thirty pieces of silver and threw them to the potter in the house of the LORD.
- יָקַ֖רְתִּיyakartiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I was valued
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.