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# שָׂעַר

Biblical Hebrew

**sweep away** — used 5 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

sweep away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e2_5b7_5e8/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂעַר²: vb. sweep whirl away [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e2_5b7_5e8/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. sweep or whirl away (of storm-wind) (= סָעַר, q.v.; Assyrian šâru, wind, DlHWB 635; \> Thes1334 cp. I. שׂער);— Impf. 3 ms. sf. יִשְׂעָרֶנּוּ ψ 58:10 fig. he (י׳) shall sweep it away. Pf. 3 fs. impers. נִשְׂעֲרָה ψ 50:3 round about him it is tempestuous exceedingly. Impf. 3 ms. sf. וִישַׂעֲרֵ֫הוּ Jb 27:21 and it \[an E. wind\] shall whirl him away from (מִן) his place. Impf. 3 ms. וְיִשְׂתָּעֵר עָלָיו Dn 11:40 the kg. shall storm against him.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 4 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (20 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (16 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he (1); he will storm (1); it (1).

## In the verses

[Job 27:21](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.21/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.27.21/#tree)

יִשָּׂאֵ֣הוּ קָדִ֣ים וְיֵלַ֑ךְ וִֽ֝ישָׂעֲרֵ֗הוּ מִמְּקֹמֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* it will.lift.him.up an.east.wind and he.will.go and it will.sweep.him.away from place his

*JPS 1917:* The east wind carrieth him away, and he departeth; and it sweepeth him out of his place.

[Psalms 58:10](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.10/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.58.10/#tree)

בְּטֶ֤רֶם יָבִ֣ינוּ סִּֽירֹתֵיכֶ֣ם אָטָ֑ד כְּמוֹ־חַ֥י כְּמוֹ־חָ֝ר֗וֹן יִשְׂעָרֶֽנּוּ׃

*Word for word:* before they.will.perceive pots your a.thorn.bush like alive like burning he will.sweep.it.away

*JPS 1917:* Before your pots can feel the thorns, He will sweep it away with a whirlwind, the raw and the burning alike.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e9_5b8_5c2_5e2_5b7_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_5b7_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).