שֵׂעָר
sêʻâr · say-awr'
hair (as if tossed or bristling)
Lexicon
Derivation: or שַׂעַר; (Isaiah 7:20), from H8175 (שָׂעַר) in the sense of dishevelling;
hair (as if tossed or bristling)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: hair(-y), [idiom] rough.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- עAyin70
Picture: an eye
- Concrete
- eye · spring of water
- Extended
- to see · to know · experience · to watch
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › to see and know › the head, the highest
To consume, to destroy that works to see and know of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שֵׂעָר 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
28 occurrences · 28 OT · 0 NT · 21 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- hair6 · 21%
- the hair4 · 14%
- and the hair3 · 11%
- all over like an hairy1 · 4%
- and when the hair1 · 4%
- hairs1 · 4%
- upon it: and, behold, if the hair1 · 4%
- off all his hair1 · 4%
- all his hair1 · 4%
- even all his hair1 · 4%
- of the hair1 · 4%
- howbeit the hair1 · 4%
- him, he was an hairy1 · 4%
- and the hairy1 · 4%
- thy hair1 · 4%
- me: thy hair1 · 4%
- and thine hair1 · 4%
- a rough1 · 4%
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.