תַּעַר
taʻar · tah'-ar
a knife or razor (as making bare); also a scabbard (as being bare, i.e. empty)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H6168 (עָרָה);
a knife or razor (as making bare); also a scabbard (as being bare, i.e. empty)
- a knife or razor (as making bare)
- also, a scabbard (as being bare, i.e. empty)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: (pen-) knife, razor, scabbard, shave, sheath.
Letters
- תTav400
Picture: a crossed mark
- Concrete
- mark · sign · cross · signature
- Extended
- a covenant · to seal · to sign · the end · monument
- 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)
the mark, the covenant sign › to see and know › the head, the highest
The mark, the covenant sign that works to see and know of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of תַּעַר 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
13 occurrences · 13 OT · 0 NT · 12 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- out of his sheath3 · 23%
- razor2 · 15%
- there shall no razor1 · 8%
- upon them, and let them shave1 · 8%
- it out of the sheath1 · 8%
- in the sheath1 · 8%
- with a razor1 · 8%
- it with the penknife1 · 8%
- thyself into thy scabbard1 · 8%
- into his sheath1 · 8%
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.