Lexical Summary yother: superiority, advantage, excess Original Word: יוֹתֵרTransliteration: yother Phonetic Spelling: (yo-thare') Part of Speech: noun masculine Short Definition: superiority, advantage, excess Meaning: superiority, advantage, excess Strong's Concordance better, moreover, over, profit Active participle of yathar; properly, redundant; hence, over and above, as adjective, noun, adverb or conjunction (as follows) -- better, more(-over), over, profit. see HEBREW yathar Brown-Driver-Briggs H3148. yother יֹתֵר יוֺתֵר, noun masculine superiority, advantage, excess (late) (properly Qal participle of יתר) — absolute יוֺתֵר Ecclesiastes 7:16 2t.; יֹתֵר 2:15 4t.; — superiority, advantage מִןהַֿכְּסִיל לֶחָכָם מַהיּֿוֺתֵר 6:8 what advantage hath the wise over the fool? probably also מֵהֵמָּה יֹתֵר 12:12 (as to) what is more than these (see VB); absolute לָאָדָם מַהיֹּֿתֵר 6:11; הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ לְרֹאֵי יֹתֵר 7:11; elsewhere adverb to excess, overmuch 2:15; 7:16; followed by מִן (as often in Late Hebrew), מִמֶּנִּי יוֺתֵר Esther 6:6 more than me; שֶׁ ׳יֹתֵר = besides that Ecclesiastes 12:9. |
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