Bible word study

Yarah (Strong’s H3384): Meaning in the Bible

Yarah (יָרָה) is the Hebrew word numbered H3384 in Strong’s concordance of the Bible. Strong’s defines it as 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 Bible it is translated ( ) archer, cast, direct, inform, instruct.

• Original wordיָרָה
• Transliterationyârâh
• Pronunciationyaw-raw'
• Part of speechverb (v)
• Strong’s numberH3384
• LanguageHebrew

The full Strong’s definition

Derivation. or (2 Chronicles 26:15) יָרָא; a primitive root;

How the King James Bible translates it

Where Yarah appears in the Bible

In the King James Bible’s text tagged with Strong’s numbers, Yarah (H3384) stands behind 84 English renderings in 75 verses across 21 of the 66 books. It is most frequent in Psalms (12), Job (9), Exodus (8).

How the King James Bible renders Yarah, by count

• teach33 of 84 (39 percent)
• shoot11 of 84 (13 percent)
• shot7 of 84 (8 percent)
• archers5 of 84 (6 percent)
• taught5 of 84 (6 percent)
• cast4 of 84 (5 percent)

Three places to read Yarah

• Genesis 31:51 And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:
• 1 Kings 8:36 Then hear thou in heaven, and forgive the sin of thy servants, and of thy people Israel, that thou teach them the good way wherein they should walk, and give rain upon thy land, which thou hast given to thy people for an inheritance.
• Psalms 45:4 And in thy majesty ride prosperously because of truth and meekness and righteousness; and thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things.

Counts are made at build time from the King James text tagged with Strong’s numbers (eBible.org, public domain). Verses are read from the stored King James text, never typed.

Why the word matters

Every word the biblical writers chose carries weight. Studying Yarah in the original Hebrew lets you read the passages where it appears more carefully, closer to what the first hearers understood, so the meaning is drawn from the text itself rather than from the English alone.

The lexical data on this page comes from the public-domain Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890), a Hebrew and Greek dictionary keyed to the King James Bible. It is a reference tool, not a settled verdict: no single word decides a doctrine, and meaning is finally shaped by how a word is used in its sentences. Read the passages themselves, prayerfully, and in full.

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