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# שַׁעַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8180

**measure** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

measure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8180/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁ֫עַר²: measure [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8180/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.\[m.\] measure (proposes reckoning);—pl. מֵאָה שְׁעָרִים Gn 26:12 (J) 100 measures, i.e. 100 for one = 100-fold.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: measures (1).

## In the verses

[Genesis 26:12](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.12/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.26.12/#tree)

וַיִּזְרַ֤ע יִצְחָק֙ בָּאָ֣רֶץ הַהִ֔וא וַיִּמְצָ֛א בַּשָּׁנָ֥ה הַהִ֖וא מֵאָ֣ה שְׁעָרִ֑ים וַֽיְבָרֲכֵ֖הוּ יְהוָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.sowed Isaac in the land (the) that and he.found in the year (the) that one.hundred measures and he blessed.him Yahweh

*JPS 1917:* And Isaac sowed in that land, and found in the same year a hundredfold; and the LORD blessed him.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8180.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8180/): 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).