King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3148
Transliteration: yother
Phonetic Spelling: (yo-thare')
Part of Speech: noun masculine
Short Definition: superiority, advantage, excess
Meaning: superiority, advantage, excess
Word 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.