HebrewH8593Noun

תַּ֫עַר

ta.ar

8Occurrences
H8593Strong's #
NounPart of Speech

Definition

Quick Definition(Strong's Concordance)

a knife or razor (as making bare); also a scabbard (as being bare, i.e. empty)

from H6168 (עָרָה);

Full Lexicon Entry(Abbott-Smith)
  1. razor, sheath (making naked) 1a) razor 1b) sheath (of sword)

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Grammar & Morphology

Part of Speech

Noun

Morphology Code

H:N

Full Description

Hebrew Noun

Occurrences

תַּ֫עַר appears 8 times in the Old Testament.

Distribution by Book

Jeremiah
2
Numbers
2
1 Samuel
1
2 Samuel
1
Ezk
1
Isaiah
1

Key Passages

1 Samuel 17:51BSB

David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword.When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.

2 Samuel 20:8BSB

And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them.Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.

Ezk 5:1BSB

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Isaiah 7:20BSB

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.

Jeremiah 36:23BSB

And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.

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