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# שֵׂעָר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8181

**hair** — used 28 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

hair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8181/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֵׂעָר: n.m. hair [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8181/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m.Lv 13:3 hair;—abs. שׂ׳ Gn 25:25 +, cstr. שְׂעַר Ju 16:22 +, שַׂ֫עַר Is 7:20 (Ges§ 93 hh Köii. 1. 78); sf. שְׂעָרֵךְ Ez 16:7, שַׂעֲרֵךְ Ct 4:1, 6:5 (Köl.c.); שְׂעָרוֹ Lv 14:8 +, שְׂעָרָהּ v 20, שְׂעָרָהֿ v 4 (Ges§ 91 e);—hair: of animals, as material, אַדֶּרֶת שׂ׳ Gn 25:25 (J), Zc 13:4; prob. also אִישׁ בַּעַל שׂ׳ 2 K 1:8 i.e. a man with a garment of skin. human: שׂ׳ רֹאשׁוֹ Ju 16:22 2 S 14:26 Nu 6:5 (P), cf. v 18 (P); + beard Ezr 9:3; קָדְקֹד שׂ׳ ψ 68:22; incl. head, beard, eyebrows Lv 14:8, 9, 10 (P); שׂ׳ הָרַגְלַיִם Is 7:20 (i.e. of genitals; + רֹאשׁ, זָקָן; in fig.) long hair of woman Ez 16:7 Ct 4:1; 6:5; hair of skin in (leprosy-) marks Lv 13:3 + 10 times 13 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (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: hair (16); of hair (4); the hair (4).

## In the verses

[Judges 16:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.16.22/#tree)

וַיָּ֧חֶל שְׂעַר־רֹאשׁ֛וֹ לְצַמֵּ֖חַ כַּאֲשֶׁ֥ר גֻּלָּֽח׃פ

*Word for word:* and it.began the.hair his.head his to grow.back when it.had.been.shaved

*JPS 1917:* Howbeit the hair of his head began to grow again after he was shaven.

[Psalms 68:22](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.22/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.68.22/#tree)

אַךְ־אֱלֹהִ֗ים יִמְחַץ֮ רֹ֤אשׁ אֹ֫יְבָ֥יו קָדְקֹ֥ד שֵׂעָ֑ר מִ֝תְהַלֵּ֗ךְ בַּאֲשָׁמָֽיו׃

*Word for word:* surely God he.will.smash the.head his.enemies his \[the\].crown.of.head of.hair \[one.who\].goes.about in guilt(s) his

*JPS 1917:* Surely God will smite through the head of His enemies, the hairy scalp of him that goeth about in his guiltiness.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8181.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8181/): 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).