זֵר
zêr · zare
a chaplet (as spread around the top), i.e. (specifically) a border moulding
Lexicon
Derivation: from H2237 (זָרַר) (in the sense of scattering);
a chaplet (as spread around the top), i.e. (specifically) a border moulding
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: crown.
Letters
- זZayin7
Picture: a weapon, mattock or sword
- Concrete
- weapon · cutting tool · plough
- Extended
- to cut · to harvest · to sustain by cutting · food
- 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 head, the highest
To cut, to sustain of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of זֵר 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
10 occurrences · 10 OT · 0 NT · 3 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- unto it a crown2 · 20%
- a crown2 · 20%
- upon it a crown1 · 10%
- thereto a crown1 · 10%
- crown1 · 10%
- to it under the crown1 · 10%
- thereunto a crown1 · 10%
- for it under the crown1 · 10%
Where it is used, by book.
- Exodus10
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.