King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H3399
Transliteration: yarat
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-rat')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be precipitate, to precipitate
Meaning: to precipitate, hurl, headlong, to be rash
Word Summary
yarat: to be precipitate, to precipitate
Original Word: יָרַטTransliteration: yarat
Phonetic Spelling: (yaw-rat')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to be precipitate, to precipitate
Meaning: to precipitate, hurl, headlong, to be rash
Strong's Concordance
be perverse, turn over A primitive root; to precipitate or hurl (rush) headlong; (intransitively) to be rash -- be perverse, turn over.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H3399. yarat
יָרַט verb be precipitate, precipitate (transitive) (compare Arabic conjecit, praecipitem dedit in puteum, exitium, Frey.) —
Qal Perfect יָרַט Numbers 22:32, app. with subject הַדֶּרֶךְ; the way is precipitate, (RVm headlong) before me, but transitive ירטני רשׁעים עליֿדי Job 16:11 into the hands of wicked men he precipitates me (see Di; יִרְטֵנִי = יִָֽרְטֵנִי; Baer's text יִרְטֵנִי points to √ רטה q. v.); hence perhaps read יָרַטְתָּ Numbers 22:32; thou hast precipitated the journey in front of me, i.e. rushed recklessly in front of me; see Di; KauAT leaves untransl.
[רָטָה] verb (dubious) wring out (Late Hebrew = Biblical Hebrew (si vera lectio, see LevyNHWB iv. 444 and references)); —
Qal Imperfect3masculine singular suffix יִרְטֵנִי Job 16:11 upon the hands of wicked men he wrings me out, but read probably ׳יִָֽרְ √ יָרַט (Di Bu Du and others), q. v.
רטט (Aramaic רְטֵט tremble, rare, derived species).