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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H7607

שְׁאֵר

sheersheh-ayr'

flesh

16 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: shᵉʼêr

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7607is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 7 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 13
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H7607

flesh (as swelling out), as living or forfood; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood

The King James renders it: body, flesh, food, (near) kin(-sman, -swoman), near (nigh) (of kin).

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

sheer is rendered "flesh". It stands 16 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.

  • Six of the uses stand in Leviticus, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Exodus 21:10If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.
  • The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.

The first use

If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.

Exodus 21:10שְׁאֵרָ֛הּ

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

Six of the word's sixteen uses are in Leviticus.

The other 32 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • a relative of2
  • meat2
  • and body your1
  • and flesh my1
  • and flesh their1
  • any of relative of1
  • body his1
  • flesh my1
  • flesh of1
  • food her1
  • for relative his1
  • relative his1

and 2 more, 16 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

שְׁאֵרִיתsheerithremnantUses66
שְׁאָרshearremnantUses26
שְׁאֵלָהsheelahpetitionUses14
שְׁאָרshearremainderUses12
שְׁאָגָהsheagahroaringUses7
שְׁאֵלsheelto askUses6
שְׁאָטsheatscornUses3
שְׁאֵלָאsheelaaffairUses1
שְׁאִיָּהsheiahruinUses1

All 16, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

13 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • שְׁאֵ֣ר3
  • שְׁאֵ֥ר2
  • וּשְׁאֵרִי֙1
  • וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ׃1
  • וּשְׁאֵרָ֖ם1
  • לִשְׁאֵר֔וֹ1
  • לִשְׁאֵר֞וֹ1
  • מִשְּׁאֵ֧ר1
  • שְׁאֵ֑ר1
  • שְׁאֵרָ֛הּ1
  • שְׁאֵר֛וֹ1
  • שְׁ֝אֵר֗וֹ1

and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)4HNcmsc
  • noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HNcmsc/Sp3ms
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2HR/Ncmsc/Sp3ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp1bs
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singular1HC/Ncmsc/Sp2ms
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncmsc/Sp3mp
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp1bs
  • noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcmsc/Sp3fs
  • preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc

Exodus

one use
  • If he takes another wife, he must not reduce the food, clothing, or marital rights of his first wife.

    Exodus 21:10

    • שְׁאֵרָ֛הּsheerahnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: food her

Leviticus

six uses
  • None of you are to approach any close relative to have sexual relations. I am the LORD.

    Leviticus 18:6

    • שְׁאֵ֣רsheernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: relative of
  • You must not have sexual relations with your father’s sister; she is your father’s close relative.

    Leviticus 18:12

    • שְׁאֵ֥רsheernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a relative of
  • You must not have sexual relations with your mother’s sister, for she is your mother’s close relative.

    Leviticus 18:13

    • שְׁאֵ֥רsheernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a relative of
  • You must not have sexual relations with the sister of your mother or your father, for it is exposing one’s own kin; both shall bear their iniquity.

    Leviticus 20:19

    • שְׁאֵר֛וֹsheeronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: relative his
  • except for his immediate family—his mother, father, son, daughter, or brother,

    Leviticus 21:2

    • לִשְׁאֵר֔וֹlisheropreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: for relative his
  • either his uncle or cousin or any close relative from his clan may redeem him. Or if he prospers, he may redeem himself.

    Leviticus 25:49

    • מִשְּׁאֵ֧רmisheerpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: any of relative of

Numbers

one use
  • And if his father has no brothers, give his inheritance to the next of kin from his clan, that he may take possession of it. This is to be a statutory ordinance for the Israelites, as the LORD has commanded Moses.’”

    Numbers 27:11

    • לִשְׁאֵר֞וֹlisheropreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to relative his

Psalms

three uses
  • My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

    Psalms 73:26

    • שְׁאֵרִ֗יsheerinoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: flesh my
  • When He struck the rock, water gushed out and torrents raged. But can He also give bread or supply His people with meat?”

    Psalms 78:20

    • שְׁאֵ֣רsheernoun · masculine singulartagged: meat
  • He rained meat on them like dust, and winged birds like the sand of the sea.

    Psalms 78:27

    • שְׁאֵ֑רsheernoun · masculine singulartagged: meat

Proverbs

two uses
  • At the end of your life you will groan when your flesh and your body are spent,

    Proverbs 5:11

    • וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ׃usheerekhaconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: and body your
  • A kind man benefits himself, but a cruel man brings trouble on himself.

    Proverbs 11:17

    • שְׁ֝אֵר֗וֹsheeronoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: body his

Jeremiah

one use
  • May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.

    Jeremiah 51:35

    • וּשְׁאֵרִי֙usheericonjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 1st person masculine or feminine singulartagged: and flesh my

Micah

two uses
  • You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.

    Micah 3:2

    • וּשְׁאֵרָ֖םusheeramconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and flesh their
  • You eat the flesh of my people after stripping off their skin and breaking their bones. You chop them up like flesh for the cooking pot, like meat in a cauldron.”

    Micah 3:3

    • שְׁאֵ֣רsheernoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: flesh of

The letters

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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