Strong's Hebrew · H3384
H3384 yârâh
יָרָה
yaw-raw'
to shoot
Looking for Greek G3384 mḗtēr? It has the same number in Strong's Greek lexicon but is a different word, not a translation of H3384. Strong's numbering starts again for each language.
yârâh appears 80 times in Scripture, including Genesis 31:51 and Exodus 4:12. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.
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
In the King James Version
( ) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct, lay, shew, shoot, teach(-er,-ing), through.
Derivation
or (2 Chronicles 26:15) יָרָא; a primitive root;
Appears 80 times in Scripture
“Laban also said to Jacob, “Here is the mound, and here is the pillar I have set up between you and me.”
“And Moses cried out to the LORD, and the LORD showed him a log. And when he cast it into the waters, they were sweetened. There the LORD made for them a statute and an ordinance, and there He tested them,”
“No hand shall touch him, but he shall surely be stoned or shot with arrows—whether man or beast, he must not live.’ Only when the ram’s horn sounds a long blast may they approach the mountain.””
“You are to speak to him and put the words in his mouth. I will help both of you to speak, and I will teach you what to do.”
“Now Jacob had sent Judah ahead of him to Joseph to get directions to Goshen. When Jacob’s family arrived in the land of Goshen,”
“Pharaoh’s chariots and army He has cast into the sea; the finest of his officers are drowned in the Red Sea.”
“to determine when something is clean or unclean. This is the law regarding skin diseases and mildew.””
“Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to Me on the mountain and stay here, so that I may give you the tablets of stone, with the law and commandments I have written for their instruction.””
“Now go! I will help you as you speak, and I will teach you what to say.””
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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).
