Strong's Hebrew Concordance

H3384: יָרָה

yârâh · pronounced yaw-raw' · “to shoot”

Definition

properly, to flow as water (i.e. to rain); transitively, to lay or throw (especially an arrow, i.e. to shoot); figuratively, to point out (as if by aiming the finger), to teach

KJV translates it as: ([phrase]) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.

Word origin: or (2 Chronicles 26:15) יָרָא; a primitive root;

Extended definition

1) to shoot, pour
1a) (Qal)
1a1) to shoot arrows
1b) (Hiphil)
1b1) to shoot at
1b2) part. shooter, archer

1c) to throw water, rain

Brief lexicon based on BDB via STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0).

How H3384 is translated

  • you ×9
  • me ×8
  • them ×6
  • archers ×6
  • him ×5
  • shoot ×4
  • teach ×3
  • us ×3
  • i will teach ×2
  • they will instruct ×2
  • he shot ×2
  • they shot arrows ×2

Bible verses with H3384 (yârâh)

Yârâh appears in 72 verses; the first 25 are shown below.

  • Genesis 31:51

    And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee;

  • Genesis 46:28

    And he sent Judah before him unto Joseph, to direct his face unto Goshen; and they came into the land of Goshen.

  • Exodus 4:12

    Now therefore go, and I will be with thy mouth, and teach thee what thou shalt say.

  • Exodus 4:15

    And thou shalt speak unto him, and put words in his mouth: and I will be with thy mouth, and with his mouth, and will teach you what ye shall do.

  • Exodus 15:4

    Pharaoh’s chariots and his host hath he cast into the sea: his chosen captains also are drowned in the Red sea.

  • Exodus 15:25

    And he cried unto the Lord; and the Lord shewed him a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were made sweet: there he made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there he proved them,

  • Exodus 19:13

    There shall not an hand touch it, but he shall surely be stoned, or shot through; whether it be beast or man, it shall not live: when the trumpet soundeth long, they shall come up to the mount.

  • Exodus 24:12

    And the Lord said unto Moses, Come up to me into the mount, and be there: and I will give thee tables of stone, and a law, and commandments which I have written; that thou mayest teach them.

  • Exodus 35:34

    And he hath put in his heart that he may teach, both he, and Aholiab, the son of Ahisamach, of the tribe of Dan.

  • Leviticus 10:11

    And that ye may teach the children of Israel all the statutes which the Lord hath spoken unto them by the hand of Moses.

  • Leviticus 14:57

    To teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean: this is the law of leprosy.

  • Numbers 21:30

    We have shot at them; Heshbon is perished even unto Dibon, and we have laid them waste even unto Nophah, which reacheth unto Medeba.

  • Deuteronomy 17:10

    And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the Lord shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:

  • Deuteronomy 17:11

    According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

  • Deuteronomy 24:8

    Take heed in the plague of leprosy, that thou observe diligently, and do according to all that the priests the Levites shall teach you: as I commanded them, so ye shall observe to do.

  • Deuteronomy 33:10

    They shall teach Jacob thy judgments, and Israel thy law: they shall put incense before thee, and whole burnt sacrifice upon thine altar.

  • Joshua 18:6

    Ye shall therefore describe the land into seven parts, and bring the description hither to me, that I may cast lots for you here before the Lord our God.

  • Judges 13:8

    Then Manoah intreated the Lord, and said, O my Lord, let the man of God which thou didst send come again unto us, and teach us what we shall do unto the child that shall be born.

  • 1 Samuel 12:23

    Moreover as for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord in ceasing to pray for you: but I will teach you the good and the right way:

  • 1 Samuel 20:20

    And I will shoot three arrows on the side thereof, as though I shot at a mark.

  • 1 Samuel 20:36

    And he said unto his lad, Run, find out now the arrows which I shoot. And as the lad ran, he shot an arrow beyond him.

  • 1 Samuel 20:37

    And when the lad was come to the place of the arrow which Jonathan had shot, Jonathan cried after the lad, and said, Is not the arrow beyond thee?

  • 1 Samuel 31:3

    And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers.

  • 2 Samuel 11:20

    And if so be that the king’s wrath arise, and he say unto thee, Wherefore approached ye so nigh unto the city when ye did fight? knew ye not that they would shoot from the wall?

  • 2 Samuel 11:24

    And the shooters shot from off the wall upon thy servants; and some of the king’s servants be dead, and thy servant Uriah the Hittite is dead also.

All 72 references

Words derived from H3384