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# שָׂעִיר

Biblical Hebrew

**he-goat** — used 56 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

he-goat [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂעִיר: n.m. he-goat, buck [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Nu 15:24 he-goat, buck (hairy one; NH id.);—abs. שׂ׳ Lv 4:24 +, cstr. שְׂעִיר Nu 7:16 +; pl. שְׂעִירִם Lv 16:7, 8; cstr. שְׂעִירֵי v 5 Nu 7:87;—he-goat, usually שְׂעִיר(־)עִזִּים buck of goats (v. עֵז p. 777): Gn 37:31 (J), Ez 43:22; 45:23 Lv 4:23; 9:3; 23:19 + 20 times Nu (all P); שְׂעִירֵי ע׳ Lv 16:5 Nu 7:87 (P); שׂ׳ alone = he-goat Lv 4:24 + 11 times Lv 16 (P); שְׂעִיר (הַ)חַטָּאת he-goat for sin-offering Ez 43:25 Lv 9:15 + 9 times Lv Nu; שְׂעִירֵי הַח׳ 2 Ch 29:23; in Dn 8:21 הַשּׂ׳ is prob. gloss to הַצָּפִיר (cf. Dr).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses (20 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (16 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a male goat (33); the male goat (8); goat (7).

## In the verses

[Numbers 7:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.16/#tree)

שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* a.male.goat of.goats one to a.sin.offering

*JPS 1917:* one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

[Numbers 7:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.7.22/#tree)

שְׂעִיר־עִזִּ֥ים אֶחָ֖ד לְחַטָּֽאת׃

*Word for word:* a.male.goat of.goats one to a.sin.offering

*JPS 1917:* one male of the goats for a sin-offering;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e8.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e2_5b4_5d9_5e8/): 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).