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# שַׂעֲרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8185

**a hair** — used 7 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

a hair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8185/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׂעֲרָה: n.f. hair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8185/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a hair, nom. unit (Ges§ 122 times);—abs. Ju 20:16: cstr. in phr. מִשַּׂעֲרַת רֹאשׁוֹ 1 S 14:45 a single hair of his head, cf. 2 S 14:11 1 K 1:52 (v. מִן 3 b (d), Dr 1 S 14:45); שׂ׳ בְּשָׂרִי Jb 4:15 (appar. n. coll., 𝔊 𝔙 and most; Buhl proposes pl.); pl. cstr. שַׂעֲרוֹת רֹאשִׁי ψ 40:13; 69:5 (both as numerous).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 7 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (6 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: of the hair\[s\] (2); than the hairs (2); hair (1).

## In the verses

[Job 4:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.4.15/#tree)

וְ֭רוּחַ עַל־פָּנַ֣י יַחֲלֹ֑ף תְּ֝סַמֵּ֗ר שַֽׂעֲרַ֥ת בְּשָׂרִֽי׃

*Word for word:* and a.wind over face my it.passed.over it.made.bristle.up the.hair my.flesh my

*JPS 1917:* Then a spirit passed before my face, that made the hair of my flesh to stand up.

[Psalms 69:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.69.5/#tree)

רַבּ֤וּ ׀ מִשַּׂעֲר֣וֹת רֹאשִׁי֮ שֹׂנְאַ֪י חִ֫נָּ֥ם עָצְמ֣וּ מַ֭צְמִיתַי אֹיְבַ֣י שֶׁ֑קֶר אֲשֶׁ֥ר לֹא־גָ֝זַ֗לְתִּי אָ֣ז אָשִֽׁיב׃

*Word for word:* they.are.many more than.the.hairs my.head my \[those who\].hate.me without.cause they.are.numerous \[those who\].destroy.me enemies my falsehood \[that\].which not I.stole then I.will.return

*JPS 1917:* They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of my head; they that would cut me off, being mine enemies wrongfully, are many; should I restore that which I took not away?

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8185.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8185/): 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).