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To shoot

יָרָאStrong’s H3384

yara (ya-ra)

Appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Yara is the Hebrew word usually translated “archers”, “teach me” and “so he may teach us”. It appears in 72 verses of the Old Testament.

“And Laban said to Jacob, Behold this heap, and behold this pillar, which I have cast betwixt me and thee:”
Genesis 31:51 KJV
Meaning
  1. To shoot, pour(Qal) · (Hiphil) · to throw water, rain
  2. To point out, showto direct, teach, instruct
How it's translated
  • the archers 5
  • teach me 4
  • so he may teach us 3
  • to shoot 3
  • and i will teach you 2
  • and i will teach 2
  • and to teach 2
  • they will instruct you 2

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Psalms 11
  • Job 8
  • Exodus 7
  • 1 Samuel 5
  • 2 Kings 5
  • Proverbs 5

21 books in all.

Related words
Explore in Scripture
All 72 verses, by book
Genesis 2
31:5146:28
Leviticus 2
10:1114:57
Numbers 1
21:30
Deuteronomy 4
17:1017:1124:833:10
Joshua 1
18:6
Judges 1
13:8
2 Samuel 2
11:2011:24
1 Kings 1
8:36
1 Chronicles 1
10:3
2 Chronicles 4
6:2715:326:1535:23
Ezekiel 1
44:23
Hosea 2
6:310:12
Micah 2
3:114:2
Habakkuk 2
2:182:19
Hebrew dictionary

יָרָא yara · to shoot

1) to shoot, pour 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to shoot arrows 1b) (Hiphil) 1b1) to shoot at 1b2) part. shooter, archer 1c) to throw water, rain

יָרָה yarah · to show

1) to point out, show 1b) to direct, teach, instruct

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “shoot” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

SHOOT, verb transitive

prte. and participle passive shot. The old participle shotten, is obsolete. [Latin scateo, to shoot out water.]

  1. To let fly and drive with force; as, to shoot an arrow.
  2. To discharge and cause to be driven with violence; as, to shoot a ball.
  3. To let off; used of the instrument.
  4. To strike with any thing shot; as, to shoot with an arrow or a bullet.
All definitions and other forms of “shoot”
  1. To send out; to push forth; as, a plant shoots a branch.
  2. To push out; to emit; to dart; to thrust forth.
  3. To push forward; to drive; to propel; as, to shoot a bolt.
  4. To push out; to thrust forward.“They shoot out the lip” Psalms 22:7
  5. To pass through with swiftness; as, to shoot the Stygian flood.
  6. To fit to each other by planing; a workman's term.
  7. To kill by a ball, arrow or other thing shot; as, to shoot a duck.

SHOOT, verb intransitive

  1. To perform the act of discharging, sending with force, or driving any thing by means of an engine or instrument; as, ot shoot at a target or mark.“The archers have sorely grieved him, and shot at him” Genesis 49:23
  2. To germinate; to bud; to sprout; to send forth branches.
  3. To form by shooting, or by an arrangement of particles into spiculae.
  4. To be emitted, sent forth or driven along.
  5. To protuberate; to be pushed out; to jut; to project.
  6. To pass, as an arrow or pointed instrument; to penetrate.
  7. To grow rapidly; to become by rapid growth.
  8. To move with velocity; as a shooting star.
  9. To feel a quick darting pain.

SHOOT, noun

  1. The act of propelling or driving any thing with violence; the discharge of a fire-arm or bow; as a good shot.
  2. The act of striking or endeavoring to strike with a massive weapon.
  3. A young branch.
  4. A young swine. [In New England pronounced shote.]

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.