יָסַרyâçar
discipline, chasten, admonish
Pronunciation: yaw-sar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3256
Meanings
Qal
1. admonish (Isaiah 8:11; Proverbs 9:7)
2. instruct (1 Chronicles 15:22)
3. discipline (Hosea 10:10; Psalms 94:10)
Niph`al: let oneself be corrected, admonished, let oneself be chastened (Proverbs 29:19; Jeremiah 31:18; Leviticus 26:23)
Pi`el: construct (1 Kings 12:11; Psalms 118:18; Isaiah 28:26)
1. discipline, correct, (the moral nature, with more or less severity according to circumstances)
a. training (Hosea 7:15; Deuteronomy 4:36; Deuteronomy 8:5)
b. correct, admonish (Deuteronomy 8:5; Proverbs 19:18; Proverbs 29:17)
2. chasten, chastise, more severely
c. thy badness will chastise thee., be disciplined, corrected. (Jeremiah 2:19; Ezekiel 23:48)
Hiph`il: chasten (Hosea 7:12)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 43 times in the Bible.
- Leviticus 26:18 “And if, in spite of all this, you still disobey me, I will punish you seven times over for your sins.
- Leviticus 26:23 “And if you fail to learn the lesson and continue your hostility toward me,
- Leviticus 26:28 then I will give full vent to my hostility. I myself will punish you seven times over for your sins.
- Deuteronomy 4:36 He let you hear his voice from heaven so he could instruct you. He let you see his great fire here on earth so he could speak to you from it.
- Deuteronomy 8:5 Think about it: Just as a parent disciplines a child, the Lord your God disciplines you for your own good.
- Deuteronomy 21:18 “Suppose a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey his father or mother, even though they discipline him.
See every passage
- Leviticus 26:18, 26:23, 26:28
- Deuteronomy 4:36, 8:5, 21:18, 22:18
- 1 Kings 12:11, 12:14
- 1 Chronicles 15:22
- 2 Chronicles 10:11, 10:14
- Job 4:3
- Psalms 2:10, 6:1, 16:7, 38:1, 39:11, 94:10, 94:12, 118:18
- Proverbs 9:7, 19:18, 29:17, 29:19, 31:1
- Isaiah 8:11, 28:26
- Jeremiah 2:19, 6:8, 10:24, 30:11, 31:18, 46:28
- Ezekiel 23:48
- Hosea 7:12, 7:15, 10:10
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).