To discipline
יָסַרStrong’s H3256yasar (ya-sar)
Appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yasar is the Hebrew word usually translated “disciplined”, “discipline” and “discipline you”. It appears in 38 verses of the Old Testament.
“And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, then I will punish you seven times more for your sins.”
Meaning
- To chasten, discipline, instruct, admonish(Qal) · (Niphal) to let oneself be chastened or corrected or admonished · (Piel) · (Hiphil) to chasten · (Nithpael) to teach
How it's translated
- he disciplined 4
- i will discipline 2
- discipline 2
- and i will discipline you 2
- to discipline 1
- you will let yourself be disciplined 1
- and i will discipline 1
- to discipline you 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 8
- Jeremiah 6
- Proverbs 5
- Deuteronomy 4
- Leviticus 3
- Hosea 3
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Leviticus 26:23And if ye will not be reformed by me by these things, but will walk contrary unto me;
- Leviticus 26:28Then I will walk contrary unto you also in fury; and I, even I, will chastise you seven times for your sins.
- Deuteronomy 4:36Out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice, that he might instruct thee: and upon earth he shewed thee his great fire; and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire.
- Deuteronomy 8:5Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that, as a man chasteneth his son, so the LORD thy God chasteneth thee.
- Deuteronomy 21:18If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
- Deuteronomy 22:18And the elders of that city shall take that man and chastise him;
All 38 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
יָסַר yasar · to discipline
1) to chasten, discipline, instruct, admonish 1a)(Qal) 1a1) to chasten, admonish 1a2) to instruct 1a3) to discipline 1b) (Niphal) to let oneself be chastened or corrected or admonished 1c) (Piel) 1c1) to discipline, correct 1c2) to chasten, chastise 1d) (Hiphil) to chasten 1e) (Nithpael) to teach
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “discipline” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
DISCIPLINE, noun
[Latin, to learn.]
- Education; instruction; cultivation and improvement, comprehending instruction in arts, sciences, correct sentiments, morals and manners, and due subordination to authority.
- Instruction and government, comprehending the communication of knowledge and the regulation of practice; as military discipline which includes instruction in manual exercise, evolutions and subordination.
- Rule of government; method of regulating principles and practice; as the discipline prescribed for the church.
- Subjection to laws, rules, order, precepts or regulations; as, the troops are under excellent discipline; the passions should be kept under strict discipline
All definitions and other forms of “discipline”
- Correction; chastisement; punishment intended to correct crimes or errors; as the discipline of the strap.
- In ecclesiastical affairs, the execution of the laws by which the church is governed, and infliction of the penalties enjoined against offenders, who profess the religion of Jesus Christ.
- Chastisement or bodily punishment inflicted on a delinquent in the Romish Church; or that chastisement or external mortification which a religious person inflicts on himself.
DISCIPLINE, verb transitive
- To instruct or educate; to inform the mind; to prepare by instructing in correct principles and habits; as, to discipline youth for a profession, or for future usefulness.
- To instruct and govern; to teach rules and practice, and accustom to order and subordination; as, to discipline troops or an army.
- To correct; to chastise; to punish.
- To execute the laws of the church on offenders, with a view to bring them to repentance and reformation of life.
- To advance and prepare by instruction.
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.