Advantage
יוֹתֵרStrong’s H3148yoter (yo-ter)
Appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yoter is the Hebrew word usually translated “excess”, “advantage” and “rest”. It appears in 9 verses of the Old Testament.
“And Saul said, They have brought them from the Amalekites: for the people spared the best of the sheep and of the oxen, to sacrifice unto the LORD thy God; and the rest we have utterly destroyed.”
Meaning
- Superiority, advantage, excess
- Excess, better
- Besides, moreover, more
How it's translated
- excess 2
- advantage 2
- the rest 1
- excessively 1
- and an advantage 1
- and besides 1
- and excess 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ecclesiastes 7
- 1 Samuel 1
- Esther 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Esther 6:6So Haman came in. And the king said unto him, What shall be done unto the man whom the king delighteth to honour? Now Haman thought in his heart, To whom would the king delight to do honour more than to myself?
- Ecclesiastes 2:15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 6:8For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
- Ecclesiastes 6:11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
- Ecclesiastes 7:11Wisdom is good with an inheritance: and by it there is profit to them that see the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 7:16Be not righteous over much; neither make thyself over wise: why shouldest thou destroy thyself ?
Hebrew dictionary
יוֹתֵר yoter · advantage
1) superiority, advantage, excess adv 2) excess, better conj 3) besides, moreover, more
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “advantage” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
ADV'ANTAGE, noun
- Any state, condition, or circumstance, favorable to success, prosperity, interest, or reputation.
- Benefit; gain; profit.“What advantage will it be to thee?” Job 35:3
- Means to an end; opportunity; convenience for obtaining benefit; as, student enjoy great advantages for improvement.
- Favorable state or circumstances; as, jewels set to advantage
All definitions and other forms of “advantage”
- Superiority, or prevalence over; with of or over.“Lest Satan should get an advantage of us, (or over us.)” 2 Corinthians 2:11
- Superiority, or that which gives it; as, the advantage of a good constitution.
- Interest; increase; overplus.
- Additional circumstance to give preponderation.
ADV'ANTAGE, verb transitive
- To benefit; as to yield profit or gain.“What is a man advantaged, if he gain the whole world, and lose himself, or be cast away?” Luke 9:25
- To promote; to advance the interest of.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.