# H3256 יָסַר

יָסַר (yâçar), Strong’s H3256: to chastise, literally (with blows) or figuratively (with words); hence, to instruct KJV: bind, chasten, chastise, correct, instruct, punish, reform, reprove, sore…

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*yâçar* — to chastise, literally (with blows) or figuratively (with words); hence, to instruct

KJV: bind, chasten, chastise, correct, instruct, punish, reform, reprove, sore, teach.

Occurs 43 times.

## Brown–Driver–Briggs
- [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

## Where it occurs
- [Leviticus 26:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=18) — “‘If you in spite of these things will not listen to me, then I will chastise you seven times more for your sins.
- [Leviticus 26:23](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=23) — “‘If by these things you won’t be turned back to me, but will walk contrary to me,
- [Leviticus 26:28](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/leviticus/26?v=28) — then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.
- [Deuteronomy 4:36](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/4?v=36) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 8:5](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/8?v=5) — You shall consider in your heart that as a man disciplines his son, so the LORD your God disciplines you.
- [Deuteronomy 21:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/21?v=18) — 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…
- [Deuteronomy 22:18](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/deuteronomy/22?v=18) — The elders of that city shall take the man and chastise him.
- [1 Kings 12:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/12?v=11) — Now my father burdened you with a heavy yoke, but I will add to your yoke. My father chastised you with whips, but I…
- [1 Kings 12:14](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/1-kings/12?v=14) — and spoke to them according to the counsel of the young men, saying, “My father made your yoke heavy, but I will add to…
- [Isaiah 8:11](https://besorah.bible/tanakh/isaiah/8?v=11) — For the LORD spoke this to me with a strong hand, and instructed me not to walk in the way of this people, saying,