יָתַר yâthar — to jut over or exceed
Translated in the KJV as excel, leave, left behind, too much, make plenteous, preserve, (be, let) remain(-der, -ing, -nant), reserve, residue.
a primitive root; to jut over or exceed; by implication, to excel; (intransitively) to remain or be left; causatively to leave, cause to abound, preserve.
yâthar in each stem
Niph'al
Participle (active) 50Perfect (qatal) 18Wayyiqtol 6Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Participle (passive) 2
And he set three days’ journey betwixt himself and Jacob: and Jacob fed the rest of Laban’s flocks.
And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob’s thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him.
And we said unto my lord, We have a father, an old man, and a child of his old age, a little one; and his brother is dead, and he alone is left of his mother, and his father loveth him.
Hiph'il
Imperfect (yiqtol) 5Wayyiqtol 5Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Perfect (qatal) 3Infinitive absolute 3Jussive 2Imperative 1Infinitive construct 1
Unstable as water, thou shalt not excel; because thou wentest up to thy father’s bed; then defiledst thou it: he went up to my couch.
For they covered the face of the whole earth, so that the land was darkened; and they did eat every herb of the land, and all the fruit of the trees which the hail had left: and there remained not any green thing in the trees, or in the herbs of the field, through all the land of Egypt.
And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›