to discipline
ya.sar denotes corrective treatment, often of a child or community, and can also describe instruction or direction.
The predominant use concerns corrective treatment imposed on a person or community, including parental correction, judicial punishment, and discipline associated with wrongdoing. A smaller group of verses presents instruction or teaching, while one occurrence concerns directing a burden.
Senses in use
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Corrective treatment and punishment · dominant
In 1 Kings 12:11 the clause contrasts a father's treatment with whips and a ruler's proposed treatment with scorpions, within the setting of a heavy yoke. Deuteronomy 21:18 places the action in parents' response to a rebellious son, while Jeremiah 30:11 joins it with justice and not leaving the addressee unpunished. In Psalm 118:18 the APB renders the clause "The LORD has chastened me, but he has not handed me over to death."
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Instruction that teaches or warns · occasional
Isaiah 28:26 places the action alongside instruction to justice and teaching. Psalm 94:12 joins the LORD's treatment of a man with teaching from the law, and Psalm 16:7 uses the form in a clause where the speaker's inward parts instruct at night. Proverbs 31:1 likewise places the action in what Lemuel's mother taught him.
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Directing a burden · rare
In 1 Chronicles 15:22, the Qal infinitive absolute occurs in the clause about Chenaniah's charge over the burden; the APB renders that he "directed the burden because he understood it." This is a distinct administrative setting from the corrective and teaching clauses.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses the APB commonly uses "discipline" or "disciplined" for the corrective contexts, including parental, communal, and punitive clauses. It also uses "instructs," "teaches," and "directed" in instructional or administrative contexts; these are renderings of whole translated clauses rather than definitions.