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# שַׂעַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8178

**horror** — used 3 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

horror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8178/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׂ֫עַר: horror [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8178/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] horror (proposes bristling);—שׂ׳ abs., as acc. cogn. Ez 27:35; 32:10 v. foregoing; cf. אָֽחֲזוּ שׂ׳ Jb 18:20 (‖ נָשַׁמּוּ עַל).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (16 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: shuddering (2); a shudder (1).

## In the verses

[Job 18:20](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.20/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.18.20/#tree)

עַל־י֭וֹמוֹ נָשַׁ֣מּוּ אַחֲרֹנִ֑ים וְ֝קַדְמֹנִ֗ים אָ֣חֲזוּ שָֽׂעַר׃

*Word for word:* on day his they.are.appalled \[the\].western and.\[the\] eastern they.take.hold.of a.shudder

*JPS 1917:* They that come after shall be astonished at his day, as they that went before are affrighted.

[Ezekiel 27:35](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.35/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.27.35/#tree)

כֹּ֚ל יֹשְׁבֵ֣י הָאִיִּ֔ים שָׁמְמ֖וּ עָלָ֑יִךְ וּמַלְכֵיהֶם֙ שָׂ֣עֲרוּ שַׂ֔עַר רָעֲמ֖וּ פָּנִֽים׃

*Word for word:* all the.inhabitants of the.islands they.have.been.appalled on you and kings their they.have.shuddered shuddering they.have.been.disconcerted faces

*JPS 1917:* All the inhabitants of the isles are appalled at thee, and their kings are horribly afraid, they are troubled in their countenance;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8178.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8178/): 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).