Preeminent
יַתִּירStrong’s H3493yattir (yat-tir)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Yattir is the Aramaic word usually translated “extraordinary”, “exceedingly” and “surpassing”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible.”
Meaning
- Pre-eminent, surpassing, extreme, extraordinary
- Exceedingly, extremely
How it's translated
- extraordinary 4
- exceedingly 3
- surpassing 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 8
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 3:22In contextTherefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
- Daniel 4:36In contextAt the same time my reason returned unto me; and for the glory of my kingdom, mine honour and brightness returned unto me; and my counsellors and my lords sought unto me; and I was established in my kingdom, and excellent majesty was added unto me.
- Daniel 5:12In contextForasmuch as an excellent spirit, and knowledge, and understanding, interpreting of dreams, and shewing of hard sentences, and dissolving of doubts, were found in the same Daniel, whom the king named Belteshazzar: now let Daniel be called, and he will shew the interpretation.
- Daniel 5:14In contextI have even heard of thee, that the spirit of the gods is in thee, and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee.
- Daniel 6:3In contextThen this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.
- Daniel 7:7In contextAfter this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.
Aramaic dictionary
יַתִּיר yattir · preeminent
adj 1) pre-eminent, surpassing, extreme, extraordinary adv 2) exceedingly, extremely
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “preeminent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRE-EM'INENT, adjective
[Latin proe, before, and eminens, emineo. See Menace.]
- Superior in excellence; distinguished for something commendable or honorable.
- Surpassing others in evil or bad qualities; as pre-eminent in crime or guilt.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.