Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7611
שְׁאֵרִית
sheerithsheh-ay-reeth'
remnant
66 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: shᵉʼêrîyth
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H7611is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 16 of 39Old Testament books
- 26spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7611
a remainder or residual (surviving, final) portion
The King James renders it: that had escaped, be left, posterity, remain(-der), remnant, residue, rest.
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
sheerith is rendered "remnant". It stands 66 times in the Hebrew text, across sixteen books.
- Twenty-four of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 45:7God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- The Greek text spells it twenty-six different ways.
The first use
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
Genesis 45:7שְׁאֵרִ֖ית
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Twenty-four of the word's sixty-six uses are in Jeremiah.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- remnant of30
- a remnant7
- rest of4
- the remnant4
- to remnant of4
- O remnant of3
- remainder of3
- and a remnant2
- and for remainder of1
- and remainder of it1
- and remnant their1
- and remnant your1
and 5 more, 66 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.
All 66, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
26 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
- שְׁאֵרִ֣ית18
- שְׁאֵרִ֥ית8
- שְׁאֵרִ֖ית7
- שְׁאֵרִ֔ית3
- שְׁאֵרִ֨ית3
- שְׁאֵרִ֤ית3
- הַשְּׁאֵרִ֖ית2
- לִשְׁאֵרִ֣ית2
- לִשְׁאֵרִ֖ית2
- שְׁאֵרִֽית׃2
- הַשְּׁאֵרִ֥ית1
- הַשְּׁאֵרִית֙1
and 14 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)40HNcfsc
- noun · feminine singular7HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)6HR/Ncfsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular5HTd/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular2HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp2fs
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3mp
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular1HC/Ncfsc/Sp3ms
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/R/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcfsc/Sp2fs
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Genesis
one use
God sent me before you to preserve you as a remnant on the earth and to save your lives by a great deliverance.
- שְׁאֵרִ֖יתsheeritnoun · feminine singulartagged: a remnant
2 Samuel
one use
Now the whole clan has risen up against your maidservant and said, ‘Hand over the one who struck down his brother, that we may put him to death for the life of the brother whom he killed. Then we will cut off the heir as well!’ So they would extinguish my one remaining ember by not preserving my husband’s name or posterity on the earth.”
- וּשְׁאֵרִ֖יתusheeritconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a remnant
2 Kings
three uses
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- הַשְּׁאֵרִ֖יתhasheeritthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the remnant
For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
- שְׁאֵרִ֔יתsheeritnoun · feminine singulartagged: a remnant
So I will forsake the remnant of My inheritance and deliver them into the hands of their enemies. And they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
1 Chronicles
two uses
and struck down the remnant of the Amalekites who had escaped. And they have lived there to this day.
- שְׁאֵרִ֥יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
All these men of war, arrayed for battle, came to Hebron fully determined to make David king over all Israel. And all the rest of the Israelites were of one mind to make David king.
- שֵׁרִ֧יתsheritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remainder of
2 Chronicles
two uses
So they went to Hilkiah the high priest and gave him the money that had been brought into the house of God, which the Levites at the doors had collected from the people of Manasseh and Ephraim, from all the remnant of Israel, Judah, and Benjamin, and from the people of Jerusalem.
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
- הַשְּׁאֵרִ֥יתhasheeritthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the remainder
Ezra
one use
shall we again break Your commandments and intermarry with the peoples who commit these abominations? Would You not become so angry with us as to wipe us out, leaving no remnant or survivor?
- שְׁאֵרִ֖יתsheeritnoun · feminine singulartagged: a remnant
Nehemiah
one use
The rest of the people gave a total of 20,000 darics of gold, 2,000 minas of silver, and 67 priestly garments.
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remainder of
Psalms
one use
Even the wrath of man shall praise You; with the survivors of wrath You will clothe Yourself.
- שְׁאֵרִ֖יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remainder of
Isaiah
six uses
Then the firstborn of the poor will find pasture, and the needy will lie down in safety, but I will kill your root by famine, and your remnant will be slain.
- וּשְׁאֵרִיתֵ֖ךְusheeritekhconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: and remnant your
The waters of Dimon are full of blood, but I will bring more upon Dimon—a lion upon the fugitives of Moab and upon the remnant of the land.
- וְלִשְׁאֵרִ֖יתvelisheritconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and for remainder of
Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift up a prayer for the remnant that still survives.”
- הַשְּׁאֵרִ֖יתhasheeritthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the remnant
For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the LORD of Hosts will accomplish this.
- שְׁאֵרִ֔יתsheeritnoun · feminine singulartagged: a remnant
From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He bows down to it and worships; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.”
- וּשְׁאֵ֣רִית֔וֹusheeritoconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: and remainder of it
“Listen to Me, O house of Jacob, all the remnant of the house of Israel, who have been sustained from the womb, carried along since birth.
- שְׁאֵרִ֖יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Jeremiah
twenty-four uses
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Glean the remnant of Israel as thoroughly as a vine. Pass your hand once more like a grape gatherer over the branches.”
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
And wherever I have banished them, the remnant of this evil family will choose death over life,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- הַשְּׁאֵרִית֙hasheeritthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the remnant
There will be no remnant, for I will bring disaster on the people of Anathoth in the year of their punishment.”
- וּשְׁאֵרִ֕יתusheeritconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a remnant
The mother of seven will grow faint; she will breathe her last breath. Her sun will set while it is still day; she will be disgraced and humiliated. And the rest I will put to the sword in the presence of their enemies,” declares the LORD.
- וּשְׁאֵֽרִיתָ֗םusheeritamconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: and remnant their
Then I Myself will gather the remnant of My flock from all the lands to which I have banished them, and I will return them to their pasture, where they will be fruitful and multiply.
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
But like the bad figs, so bad they cannot be eaten,’ says the LORD, ‘so will I deal with Zedekiah king of Judah, his officials, and the remnant of Jerusalem—those remaining in this land and those living in the land of Egypt.
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
all the mixed tribes; all the kings of Uz; all the kings of the Philistines: Ashkelon, Gaza, Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;
- שְׁאֵרִ֥יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
For this is what the LORD says: “Sing with joy for Jacob; shout for the foremost of the nations! Make your praises heard, and say, ‘O LORD, save Your people, the remnant of Israel!’
- שְׁאֵרִ֥יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Then all the officials of the king of Babylon entered and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer of Samgar, Nebo-sarsekim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the rest of the officials of the king of Babylon.
- שְׁאֵרִ֔יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rest of
When all the Jews in Moab, Ammon, Edom, and all the other lands heard that the king of Babylon had left a remnant in Judah and had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, over them,
- שְׁאֵרִ֖יתsheeritnoun · feminine singulartagged: a remnant
Then Johanan son of Kareah spoke privately to Gedaliah at Mizpah. “Let me go and kill Ishmael son of Nethaniah,” he said. “No one will know it. Why should he take your life and scatter all the people of Judah who have gathered to you, so that the remnant of Judah would perish?”
- שְׁאֵרִ֥יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people of Mizpah—the daughters of the king along with all the others who remained in Mizpah—over whom Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had appointed Gedaliah son of Ahikam. Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and set off to cross over to the Ammonites.
- שְׁאֵרִ֨יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rest of
Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the armies with him took the whole remnant of the people from Mizpah whom he had recovered from Ishmael son of Nethaniah after Ishmael had killed Gedaliah son of Ahikam: the soldiers, women, children, and court officials he had brought back from Gibeon.
- שְׁאֵרִ֤יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rest of
Jeremiah the prophet and said, “May our petition come before you; pray to the LORD your God on behalf of this entire remnant. For few of us remain of the many, as you can see with your own eyes.
- הַשְּׁאֵרִ֣יתhasheeritthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the remnant
then hear the word of the LORD, O remnant of Judah! This is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you are determined to go to Egypt and reside there,
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O remnant of
The LORD has told you, O remnant of Judah, ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for sure that I have warned you today!
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O remnant of
Instead, Johanan son of Kareah and all the commanders of the forces took the whole remnant of Judah, those who had returned to the land of Judah from all the nations to which they had been scattered,
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
So now, this is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: Why are you doing such great harm to yourselves by cutting off from Judah man and woman, child and infant, leaving yourselves without a remnant?
- שְׁאֵרִֽית׃sheeritnoun · feminine singulartagged: a remnant
And I will take away the remnant of Judah who have resolved to go to the land of Egypt to reside there; they will meet their end. They will all fall by the sword or be consumed by famine. From the least to the greatest, they will die by sword or famine; and they will become an object of cursing and horror, of vilification and reproach.
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
so that none of the remnant of Judah who have gone to reside in Egypt will escape or survive to return to the land of Judah, where they long to return and live; for none will return except a few fugitives.”
- לִשְׁאֵרִ֣יתlisheritpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to remnant of
Those who escape the sword will return from Egypt to Judah, few in number, and the whole remnant of Judah who went to dwell in the land of Egypt will know whose word will stand, Mine or theirs!
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
For the day has come to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every remaining ally. Indeed, the LORD is about to destroy the Philistines, the remnant from the coasts of Caphtor.
- שְׁאֵרִ֖יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
The people of Gaza will shave their heads in mourning; Ashkelon will be silenced. O remnant of their valley, how long will you gash yourself?
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: O remnant of
Come against her from the farthest border. Break open her granaries; pile her up like mounds of grain. Devote her to destruction; leave her no survivors.
- שְׁאֵרִֽית׃sheeritnoun · feminine singulartagged: a remnant
Ezekiel
seven uses
As a result, fathers among you will eat their sons, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments against you and scatter all your remnant to every wind.’
- שְׁאֵרִיתֵ֖ךְsheeritekhnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: rest of you
While they were killing, I was left alone. And I fell facedown and cried out, “Oh, Lord GOD, when You pour out Your wrath on Jerusalem, will You destroy the entire remnant of Israel?”
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Now as I was prophesying, Pelatiah son of Benaiah died. Then I fell facedown and cried out in a loud voice, “Oh, Lord GOD, will You bring the remnant of Israel to a complete end?”
- שְׁאֵרִ֥יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Behold, I will stretch out My hand against the Philistines, and I will cut off the Cherethites and destroy the remnant along the coast.
- שְׁאֵרִ֖יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
therefore prophesy and declare that this is what the Lord GOD says: Because they have made you desolate and have trampled you on every side, so that you became a possession of the rest of the nations and were taken up in slander by the lips of their talkers,
- לִשְׁאֵרִ֣יתlisheritpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: of rest of
therefore, O mountains of Israel, hear the word of the Lord GOD. This is what the Lord GOD says to the mountains and hills, to the ravines and valleys, to the desolate ruins and abandoned cities, which have become a spoil and a mockery to the rest of the nations around you.
- לִשְׁאֵרִ֥יתlisheritpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to rest of
Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Surely in My burning zeal I have spoken against the rest of the nations, and against all Edom, who took My land as their own possession with wholehearted joy and utter contempt, so that its pastureland became plunder.
- שְׁאֵרִ֥יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rest of
Amos
three uses
I will cut off the ruler of Ashdod and the one who wields the scepter in Ashkelon. I will turn My hand against Ekron, and the remnant of the Philistines will perish,” says the Lord GOD.
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the LORD, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
- שְׁאֵרִ֥יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name,” declares the LORD, who will do this.
- שְׁאֵרִ֤יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Micah
five uses
I will surely gather all of you, O Jacob; I will collect the remnant of Israel. I will bring them together like sheep in a pen, like a flock in the midst of its pasture—a noisy throng.
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
And I will make the lame into a remnant, and the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
- לִשְׁאֵרִ֔יתlisheritpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a remnant
Then the remnant of Jacob will be in the midst of many peoples like dew from the LORD, like showers on the grass, which do not wait for man or linger for mankind.
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Then the remnant of Jacob will be among the nations, in the midst of many peoples, like a lion among the beasts of the forest, like a young lion among flocks of sheep, which tramples and tears as it passes through, with no one to rescue them.
- שְׁאֵרִ֨יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Who is a God like You, who pardons iniquity and passes over the transgression of the remnant of His inheritance—who does not retain His anger forever, because He delights in loving devotion?
- לִשְׁאֵרִ֖יתlisheritpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to remnant of
Zephaniah
three uses
The coast will belong to the remnant of the house of Judah; there they will find pasture. They will lie down in the evening among the houses of Ashkelon, for the LORD their God will attend to them and restore their captives.
- לִשְׁאֵרִ֛יתlisheritpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to remnant of
Therefore, as surely as I live,” declares the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, “surely Moab will be like Sodom and the Ammonites like Gomorrah—a place of weeds and salt pits, a perpetual wasteland. The remnant of My people will plunder them; the remainder of My nation will dispossess them.”
- שְׁאֵרִ֤יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
The remnant of Israel will no longer do wrong or speak lies, nor will a deceitful tongue be found in their mouths. But they will feed and lie down, with no one to make them tremble.”
- שְׁאֵרִ֨יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Haggai
three uses
Then Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as all the remnant of the people, obeyed the voice of the LORD their God and the words of the prophet Haggai, because the LORD their God had sent him. So the people feared the LORD.
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
So the LORD stirred the spirit of Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and the spirit of Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, as well as the spirit of all the remnant of the people. And they came and began the work on the house of the LORD of Hosts, their God,
- שְׁאֵרִ֣יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
“Speak to Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua son of Jehozadak, the high priest, and also to the remnant of the people. Ask them,
- שְׁאֵרִ֥יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
Zechariah
three uses
This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “If this is impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people in these days, should it also be impossible in My eyes?” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- שְׁאֵרִית֙sheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
But now I will not treat the remnant of this people as I did in the past,” declares the LORD of Hosts.
- לִשְׁאֵרִ֖יתlisheritpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to remnant of
“For the seed will be prosperous, the vine will yield its fruit, the ground will yield its produce, and the skies will give their dew. To the remnant of this people I will give all these things as an inheritance.
- שְׁאֵרִ֛יתsheeritnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: remnant of
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