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title: יַתִּר — Jattir · The Tanakh dictionary
description: יַתִּר (3492), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 4 times: Jattir. BDB 1906: n.pr.loc. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# יַתִּר

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«יַתִּר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **Jattir** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 4 times · **Key:** 3492 · **BDB:** יַתִּיר

### Glosses

Jattir (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

Jattir [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3492/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.pr.loc. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3492/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.loc. town in Judah (√ dub.);—יַתִּיר Jos 15:48, 𝔊 Ι(ε)θερ; elsewhere יַתִּר, Levitical city Jos 21:14 (both P), 𝔊 Αιλωμ, A 𝔊L Ιεθερ, 1 Ch 6:42, 𝔊 \[v 43\] Ιεθθαρ, A Ιεθερ; prob. = יַתִּר 1 S 30:27, 𝔊 Γεθθορ, A Ειεθερ;—according to Onom. = Ιεθειρα, village 20 miles from Eleutheropolis, LagOnom. 266, 133; ed. 2, p. 268; identified by RobBR i, 494 (who, however, questions ʿ (ע) = י) BdPal. 3, 153 with ʿAttîr, halfway between Hebron and Milḥ; so, ‘perhaps,’ BuhlGeogr. § 91, p. 164; this not certain, cf. Di.

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Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (15 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (13 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «יַתִּר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1497/3492/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Joshua 15:48](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.15.48/)

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וּבָהָ֑ר שָׁמִ֥יר וְיַתִּ֖יר וְשׂוֹכֹֽה׃

*Word for word:* and in the.hill country Shamir and Jattir and Socoh

*JPS 1917:* And in the hill-country: Shamir, and Jattir, and Socoh;

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[Joshua 21:14](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JOS.21.14/)

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וְאֶת־יַתִּר֙ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶׁ֔הָ וְאֶת־אֶשְׁתְּמֹ֖עַ וְאֶת־מִגְרָשֶֽׁהָ׃

*Word for word:* and (et) Jattir and (et) lands its.pasture and (et) Eshtemoa and (et) lands its.pasture

*JPS 1917:* and Jattir with the open land about it, and Eshtemoa with the open land about it;

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