Hebrew word · H3324

יִצְהָר

yitzhar

Izhar

Appears 9 times in 9 verses of the Hebrew Old Testament. ·

What it means

A man of the tribe of Levi living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, first mentioned at Exo.6.18;

son of: Kohath (H6955);

brother of: Amram (H6019), Hebron (H2275B) and Uzziel (H5816);

father of: Korah (H7141I), Nepheg (H5298), Zichri (H2147) and Shelomith (H8019A)

§ Izhar = "shining oil"

son of Kohath, grandson of Levi, uncle of Moses and Aaron, and father of Korah; progenitor of the Izharites

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

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Where it appears

Exodus · 2

  1. Exodus 6:18 וְיִצְהָ֔ר and Izhar

    The sons of Kohath were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel. Kohath lived 133 years.

  2. Exodus 6:21 יִצְהָ֑ר Izhar

    The sons of Izhar were Korah, Nepheg, and Zichri.

Numbers · 2

  1. Numbers 3:19 וְיִצְהָ֔ר and Izhar

    The sons of Kohath by their clans were Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

  2. Numbers 16:1 יִצְהָ֥ר Izhar

    Now Korah son of Izhar, the son of Kohath son of Levi, along with some Reubenites—Dathan and Abiram, sons of Eliab, and On son of Peleth—conducted

    Here: Korah's father, the second son of Kohath. He was a brother of Amram, who was the father of Moses and Aaron (Exodus 6:18). The name is spelled like the common noun for fresh olive oil.

1 Chronicles · 5

  1. 1 Chronicles 6:2 יִצְהָ֔ר Izhar

    The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

  2. 1 Chronicles 6:18 וְיִצְהָ֔ר and Izhar

    The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel.

  3. 1 Chronicles 6:38 יִצְהָ֣ר Izhar

    the son of Izhar, the son of Kohath, the son of Levi, the son of Israel.

  4. 1 Chronicles 23:12 יִצְהָ֛ר Izhar

    The sons of Kohath: Amram, Izhar, Hebron, and Uzziel—four in all.

  5. 1 Chronicles 23:18 יִצְהָ֖ר Izhar

    The sons of Izhar: Shelomith was the first.

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