יָסוּר
ya.sur
departed
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
Supported# Analytical Synthesis of יָסוּר (yasur) The Hebrew verb יָסוּר carries the fundamental meaning of physical or directional movement away from a place or state, captured in the English translation "departed." With 147 occurrences throughout the Bible, this word represents a standard and frequently employed term for describing separation or removal. The verb encompasses both literal spatial displacement—moving away from a location—and more abstract senses of turning aside or straying from a course, whether physical, moral, or relational. The high frequency of this word (147 instances) suggests it functioned as a common, everyday term in biblical Hebrew rather than a specialized or rare expression. This prevalence indicates that the concept of departure, removal, or turning away was a recurring theme in biblical narratives and discourse. The word appears sufficiently distributed across the biblical text to carry consistent semantic weight across different genres and contexts, from historical narrative to wisdom literature. Without access to the complete contextual data for all 147 occurrences, the definition "departed" establishes the word's core semantic field: movement or separation from an established position or state. This makes יָסוּר foundational to biblical expressions of change, transition, and displacement—concepts central to many biblical narratives involving journeys, exiles, spiritual waywardness, and relational shifts.
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Occurrences in Scripture
147 total occurrences across the text — showing 50
However the high places were not taken away, and the people had still not set their hearts on the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 30:14They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 30:14They arose and took away the altars that were in Jerusalem, and they took away all the altars for incense and threw them into the brook Kidron.
2 Chronicles 32:12Hasn’t the same Hezekiah taken away his high places and his altars, and commanded Judah and Jerusalem, saying, ‘You shall worship before one altar, and you shall burn incense on it?’
2 Chronicles 33:8I will not any more remove the foot of Israel from off the land which I have appointed for your fathers, if only they will observe to do all that I have commanded them, even all the law, the statutes, and the ordinances given by Moses.”
2 Chronicles 33:15He took away the foreign gods, and the idol out of Yahweh’s house, and all the altars that he had built in the mountain of Yahweh’s house, and in Jerusalem, and cast them out of the city.
2 Chronicles 34:33Josiah took away all the abominations out of all the countries that belonged to the children of Israel, and made all who were found in Israel to serve, even to serve Yahweh their God. All his days they didn’t depart from following Yahweh, the God of their fathers.
2 Chronicles 36:3The king of Egypt removed him from office at Jerusalem, and fined the land one hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.
Esther 3:10The king took his ring from his hand, and gave it to Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.
Esther 4:4Esther’s maidens and her eunuchs came and told her this, and the queen was exceedingly grieved. She sent clothing to Mordecai, to replace his sackcloth; but he didn’t receive it.
Esther 8:2The king took off his ring, which he had taken from Haman, and gave it to Mordecai. Esther set Mordecai over the house of Haman.
Job 9:34Let him take his rod away from me. Let his terror not make me afraid;
Job 12:20He removes the speech of those who are trusted, and takes away the understanding of the elders.
Job 12:24He takes away understanding from the chiefs of the people of the earth, and causes them to wander in a wilderness where there is no way.
Job 19:9He has stripped me of my glory, and taken the crown from my head.
Job 27:2“As God lives, who has taken away my right, the Almighty, who has made my soul bitter
Job 27:5Far be it from me that I should justify you. Until I die I will not put away my integrity from me.
Job 34:5For Job has said, ‘I am righteous, God has taken away my right:
Job 34:20In a moment they die, even at midnight. The people are shaken and pass away. The mighty are taken away without a hand.
Psalms 18:22For all his ordinances were before me. I didn’t put away his statutes from me.
Psalms 34:14Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace, and pursue it.
Psalms 39:10Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
Leviticus 3:15and the two kidneys, and the fat that is on them, which is by the loins, and the cover on the liver, with the kidneys, he shall take away.
Psalms 81:6“I removed his shoulder from the burden. His hands were freed from the basket.
Psalms 101:4A perverse heart will be far from me. I will have nothing to do with evil.
Psalms 119:29Keep me from the way of deceit. Grant me your law graciously!
Proverbs 4:24Put away from yourself a perverse mouth. Put corrupt lips far from you.
Proverbs 11:22Like a gold ring in a pig’s snout, is a beautiful woman who lacks discretion.
Ecclesiastes 11:10Therefore remove sorrow from your heart, and put away evil from your flesh; for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.
Isaiah 1:16Wash yourselves. Make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil.
Isaiah 1:25I will turn my hand on you, thoroughly purge away your dross, and will take away all your tin.
Isaiah 3:1For, behold, the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, takes away from Jerusalem and from Judah supply and support, the whole supply of bread, and the whole supply of water;
Isaiah 3:18In that day the Lord will take away the beauty of their anklets, the headbands, the crescent necklaces,
Isaiah 5:5Now I will tell you what I will do to my vineyard. I will take away its hedge, and it will be eaten up. I will break down its wall, and it will be trampled down.
Isaiah 5:23who acquit the guilty for a bribe, but deny justice for the innocent!
Isaiah 6:7He touched my mouth with it, and said, “Behold, this has touched your lips; and your iniquity is taken away, and your sin forgiven.”
Isaiah 10:13For he has said, “By the strength of my hand I have done it, and by my wisdom; for I have understanding. I have removed the boundaries of the peoples, and have robbed their treasures. Like a valiant man I have brought down their rulers.
Isaiah 14:25that I will break the Assyrian in my land, and tread him under foot on my mountains. Then his yoke will leave them, and his burden leave their shoulders.
Isaiah 18:5For before the harvest, when the blossom is over, and the flower becomes a ripening grape, he will cut off the sprigs with pruning hooks, and he will cut down and take away the spreading branches.
Isaiah 25:8He has swallowed up death forever! The Lord Yahweh will wipe away tears from off all faces. He will take the reproach of his people away from off all the earth, for Yahweh has spoken it.
Isaiah 27:9Therefore by this the iniquity of Jacob will be forgiven, and this is all the fruit of taking away his sin: that he makes all the stones of the altar as chalk stones that are beaten in pieces, so that the Asherah poles and the incense altars shall rise no more.
Isaiah 36:7But if you tell me, ‘We trust in Yahweh our God,’ isn’t that he whose high places and whose altars Hezekiah has taken away, and has said to Judah and to Jerusalem, ‘You shall worship before this altar?’ ”
Isaiah 49:21Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has conceived these for me, since I have been bereaved of my children and am alone, an exile, and wandering back and forth? Who has brought these up? Behold, I was left alone. Where were these?’ ”
Jeremiah 4:1“If you will return, Israel,” says Yahweh, “if you will return to me, and if you will put away your abominations out of my sight; then you will not be removed;
Jeremiah 4:4Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go out like fire, and burn so that no one can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
Jeremiah 32:31For this city has been to me a provocation of my anger and of my wrath from the day that they built it even to this day, so that I should remove it from before my face,
Lamentations 4:15“Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
Lamentations 4:15“Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
Lamentations 4:15“Go away!” they cried to them. “Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, “They can’t live here any more.”
Ezekiel 11:18“ ‘They will come there, and they will take away all its detestable things and all its abominations from there.