יֶתֶר (yeter) is a Hebrew noun meaning remainder. It appears 102 times in 26 books of the Hebrew Bible (Strong's H3499).
יֶ֫תֶר noun, masculine: cord, hanging over, down
cord (properly as hanging over or down)
Strong's H3499 יֶתֶר: properly, an overhanging, i.e. (by implication) an excess, superiority, remainder; also a small rope (as hanging free)
KJV:abundant, cord, exceeding, excellancy(-ent), what they leave, that hath left, plentifully, remnant, residue, rest, string, with.
Meanings: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906) and Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1890), public domain, via the Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0). TWOT numbers for reference only.
Root family 936: יָתַר yātar — remain over; the remainder; be left over; leave over, leave, leave a remnant, save over, presevre alive, excel, shew pre-eminence, shew excess, have more than enough; jut, exceed, remain, be left, cause to abound, preserve…
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