to show
ya.rah most often denotes giving instruction, and in other contexts marks shooting arrows or indicating a way or object.
The attested use is chiefly instruction: persons, priests, and God direct others in a way, statutes, judgments, knowledge, or distinctions. A separate cluster concerns shooting arrows or missile-like weapons, while several contexts present an act of indicating or setting something before someone, including a way, a tree, or an allotted portion.
Senses in use
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Giving instruction or direction · dominant
The Hiphil forms repeatedly occur where a speaker gives guidance to be followed: in Deuteronomy 17:10 the instructed people are to carry out what authorities instruct, and in Ezekiel 44:23 priests teach distinctions between holy and common and between unclean and clean. In Isaiah 2:3 the APB renders the clause "that he may teach us from his ways," followed by walking in those paths.
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Shooting arrows or weapons · common
Qal forms occur in clauses about arrows, bows, and archers: in 1 Samuel 20:37 Jonathan has shot an arrow, and in Psalm 11:2 the wicked prepare an arrow on the cord to shoot in darkness. In 2 Kings 13:17 the imperative is followed by the APB's "Shoot," and the resulting arrow is named in the following clause.
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Indicating or setting before · occasional
Several Hiphil contexts concern making something known or apparent rather than extended instruction. In Exodus 15:25 the APB says the LORD "showed him a tree," while Genesis 46:28 says Judah was sent ahead "to show the way"; Joshua 18:6 similarly places the speaker's action before an allotted portion.
In the Anselm Project Bible: Across the cited clauses, the APB commonly uses "teach" or "instruct" for the instructional contexts, "shoot" for arrow contexts, and "show" for contexts involving a tree or way. Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, these renderings confirm the clauses' overall presentation rather than assigning a fixed English equivalent in every occurrence.