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# יוֹתֵר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3148

**superiority** — used 9 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

superiority [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3148/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יוֹתֵר: n.m. superiority, advantage, excess Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3148/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. superiority, advantage, excess (late) (proposes Qal pt. of יתר)—abs. יוֹתֵר Ec 7:16 + 2 times; יֹתֵר Ec 2:15 + 4 times;—superiority, advantage מַה־יּוֹתֵר לֶחָכָם מִן־הַכְּסִיל Ec 6:8 what advantage hath the wise over the fool? prob. also יֹתֵר מֵהֵמָּה 12:12 (as to) what is more than these (see VB); abs. מַה־יֹּתֵר לָאָדָם 6:11; יֹתֵר לְרֹאֵי הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ Ec 7:11; elsewhere adv. to excess, overmuch Ec 2:15; 7:16; sq. מִן (as often in NH), יוֹתֵר מִמֶּנִּי Est 6:6 more than me; יֹתֵר שֶׁ׳ = besides that Ec 12:9.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: excess (3); advantage (2); excessively (2).

## In the verses

[Ecclesiastes 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.7.11/#tree)

טוֹבָ֥ה חָכְמָ֖ה עִֽם־נַחֲלָ֑ה וְיֹתֵ֖ר לְרֹאֵ֥י הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].good wisdom with an.inheritance and.\[is\] an.advantage to \[those.who\].see (of).the sun

*JPS 1917:* Wisdom is good with an inheritance, yea, a profit to them that see the sun.

[Ecclesiastes 6:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.6.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/ECC.6.11/#tree)

כִּ֛י יֵשׁ־דְּבָרִ֥ים הַרְבֵּ֖ה מַרְבִּ֣ים הָ֑בֶל מַה־יֹּתֵ֖ר לָאָדָֽם׃

*Word for word:* (dm) there.\[are\] words many \[which\].increase futility what? advantage \[belongs\].to (the) person

*JPS 1917:* Seeing there are many words that increase vanity, what is man the better?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3148.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3148/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).