זָכָר
zâkâr · zaw-kawr'
properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2142 (זָכַר);
properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: [idiom] him, male, man(child, -kind).
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- כKaf20
Picture: open palm
- Concrete
- palm · open hand · sole of the foot
- Extended
- to open · to allow · to cover · to tame · like / as
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to cut, to sustain › the open hand that covers › the head, the highest
To cut, to sustain of the open hand that covers of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זָכָר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
82 occurrences · 82 OT · 0 NT · 24 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- males13 · 20%
- every male10 · 15%
- a male6 · 9%
- all the males5 · 8%
- male3 · 5%
- shall be of the male3 · 5%
- of all the males3 · 5%
- the male2 · 3%
- with mankind2 · 3%
- of the males2 · 3%
- a man2 · 3%
- he him; male1 · 2%
- with thee; they shall be male1 · 2%
- every man child1 · 2%
- among you, every man child1 · 2%
- man child1 · 2%
- unto you: if ye will be as we be, that every male1 · 2%
- if every male1 · 2%
- and every male1 · 2%
- let all his males1 · 2%
- which thou hast; the males1 · 2%
- being males1 · 2%
- it a male1 · 2%
- whether it be a male1 · 2%
- a man child1 · 2%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.