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# שָׁחַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7836

**look early** — used 12 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

look early [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7836/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׁחַר²: vb.denom. look early, diligently [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7836/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb.denom. look early, diligently for (late; orig. look for dawn);— Pt. שֹׁחֵר טוֹב Pr 11:27 (‖ בִּקֵּשׁ, דָּרַשׁ), elsewhere c. acc. (sf.) Pf. 3 ms. sf. שִׁחֲרוֹ מוּסָר Pr 13:24 seeks him early (with) discipline (chastises him betimes); 2 ms. sf. consec. וְשִׁחַרְתַּ֫נִי וְאֵינֶנִּי Jb 7:21; lit. Inf. לְשַׁחֵר פָּנֶיךָ Pr 7:15; of wild asses, Pt. מְשַׁחֲרֵי לַטָּ֑רֶף Jb 24:5 (Ges§ 130 u) seeking eagerly for their food; usually of seeking God (י׳) earnestly, Pf. וְשִׁחֲרוּ־אֵל ψ 78:34 (‖ דָּרַשׁ), Impf. 2 ms. תְּשַׁהֵר אֶל־אֵל Jb 8:5 (si vera l.), 3 mpl. sf. יְשַׁחֲרֻנְנִי (Ges§ 60 e) Ho 5:15 (‖ בִּקֵּשׁ), + 6:3 (v. שַׁחַר), and, acc. wisdom, Pr 1:28, Pt. sf. מְשַׁחֲרַי Pr 8:17; seek with longing, long for (י׳), אֲשַׁחֲרֶ֑ךָּ Is 26:9 ψ 63:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (10 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: I (2); they (2); \[one who\] seeks diligently (1).

## In the verses

[Job 8:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.8.5/#tree)

אִם־אַ֭תָּה תְּשַׁחֵ֣ר אֶל־אֵ֑ל וְאֶל־שַׁ֝דַּ֗י תִּתְחַנָּֽן׃

*Word for word:* if you you.will.seek.earnestly (to) God and to \[the\].Almighty you.will.seek.favor

*JPS 1917:* If thou wouldest seek earnestly unto God, and make thy supplication to the Almighty;

[Proverbs 8:17](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.17/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.8.17/#tree)

אֲ֭נִי אֹהֲבַ֣י אֵהָ֑ב וּ֝מְשַׁחֲרַ֗י יִמְצָאֻֽנְנִי׃

*Word for word:* I \[those who\].love.me I.love and \[those who\].seek.me.earnestly they find.me

*JPS 1917:* I love them that love me, and those that seek me earnestly shall find me.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/7836.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7836/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).