{
  "type": "word",
  "id": "H3256",
  "lemma": "יָסַר",
  "transliteration": "yâçar",
  "definition": "to chastise, literally (with blows) or figuratively (with words); hence, to instruct",
  "kjv": "bind, chasten, chastise, correct, instruct, punish, reform, reprove, sore, teach.",
  "occurrences": 43,
  "language": "Hebrew",
  "brownDriverBriggs": [
    "[יָסַר] vb. discipline, chasten, admonish",
    "Qal",
    "1. admonish",
    "2. instruct",
    "3. discipline",
    "Niph. let oneself be corrected, admonished",
    "Pi.",
    "1. discipline, correct (the moral nature, with more or less severity acc. to circumstances)",
    "2. more severely, chasten, chastise",
    "Nithp. pass. be disciplined, corrected",
    "Hiph. chasten"
  ],
  "whereItOccurs": [
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 26:18",
      "text": "“‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 26:23",
      "text": "“‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=23"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Leviticus 26:28",
      "text": "then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=28"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 4:36",
      "text": "Out of heaven he made you to hear his voice, that he might instruct you. On earth he made you to see his great fire…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=36"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 8:5",
      "text": "You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=5"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 21:18",
      "text": "If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Deuteronomy 22:18",
      "text": "The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/22?v=18"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 12:11",
      "text": "Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/12?v=11"
    },
    {
      "reference": "1 Kings 12:14",
      "text": "and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to…",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/12?v=14"
    },
    {
      "reference": "Isaiah 8:11",
      "text": "For the LORD spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,",
      "url": "https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/8?v=11"
    }
  ],
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