שֵׂעָר
se.ar
“hair”
Definition
hair (as if tossed or bristling)
or שַׂעַר; (Isaiah 7:20), from H8175 (שָׂעַר) in the sense of dishevelling;
- hair 1a) hair (of animals, man) 1b) hair (of garment made of hair) Aramaic equivalent: se.ar (*שְׂעַר *"hair" H8177)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Masculine)
H:N-M
H:N-M
Occurrences
שֵׂעָר appears 26 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
“He was a hairy man,” they answered, “with a leather belt around his waist.”“It was Elijah the Tishbite,” said the king.
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates —the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
The priest shall examine it, and if it appears to be beneath the skin and the hair in it has turned white, the priest shall pronounce him unclean; it is a diseased infection that has broken out in the boil.
But if the priest examines the scaly infection and it does not appear to be deeper than the skin, and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the infected person for seven days.
On the seventh day he must shave off all his hair—his head, his beard, his eyebrows, and the rest of his hair. He must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and he will be clean.
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