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# יַתִּר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3492

**Jattir** — used 4 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

Jattir [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3492/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

יַתִּיר: n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3492/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. town in Judah (√ dub.);—יַתִּיר Jos 15:48, 𝔊 Ι(ε)θερ; elsewhere יַתִּר, Levitical city Jos 21:14 (both P), 𝔊 Αιλωμ, A 𝔊L Ιεθερ, 1 Ch 6:42, 𝔊 \[v 43\] Ιεθθαρ, A Ιεθερ; prob. = יַתִּר 1 S 30:27, 𝔊 Γεθθορ, A Ειεθερ;—according to Onom. = Ιεθειρα, village 20 miles from Eleutheropolis, LagOnom. 266, 133; ed. 2, p. 268; identified by RobBR i, 494 (who, however, questions ʿ (ע) = י) BdPal. 3, 153 with ʿAttîr, halfway between Hebron and Milḥ; so, ‘perhaps,’ BuhlGeogr. § 91, p. 164; this not certain, cf. Di.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Jattir (4).

## In the verses

[Joshua 15:48](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.48/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.48/#tree)

וּבָהָ֑ר שָׁמִ֥יר וְיַתִּ֖יר וְשׂוֹכֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and in the.hill country Shamir and Jattir and Socoh

*JPS 1917:* And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh;

[Joshua 21:14](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.14/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.14/#tree)

וְאֶת־יַתִּר֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶת־אֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Jattir and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Eshtemoa and (et) lands its.pasture

*JPS 1917:* and Jattir with the open land about it, and Eshtemoa with the open land about it;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3492.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3492/): 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).