Hebrew noun · H8593
תַּעַר
taartah'-ar
razor
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: taʻar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8593is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 7 of 39Old Testament books
- 12spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8593
a knife or razor (as making bare); also a scabbard (as being bare, i.e. empty)
The King James renders it: (pen-) knife, razor, scabbard, shave, sheath.
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
taar is rendered "razor". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across seven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Ezekiel, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 6:5For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.
- The Greek text spells it twelve different ways.
The first use
For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.
Numbers 6:5תַּ֖עַר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- from sheath its4
- a razor2
- in sheath its1
- like a razor1
- sheath its1
- sheath your1
- the razor of1
- with a razor1
- with knife of1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| תַּעָב | taab | to abhor | Uses22 |
| תַּעֲנוּג | taanug | luxury | Uses5 |
| תַּעֲלֻמָּה | taalummah | secret | Uses3 |
| תַּעֲלוּל | taalul | caprice | Uses2 |
| תַּעֲרֻבָה | taarubah | security | Uses2 |
| תַּעְתֻּעַ | tatua | delusion | Uses2 |
| תַּעֲנִית | taanith | fasting | Uses1 |
| תַּעֲצֻמָה | taatsumah | power | Uses1 |
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
12 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
- מִתַּעְרָ֑הּ2
- בְּתַ֨עַר1
- בְּתַ֣עַר1
- בְּתַעְרָ֔הּ1
- כְּתַ֥עַר1
- מִתַּעְרָהּ֙1
- מִתַּעְרָ֛הּ1
- תַ֙עַר֙1
- תַּ֖עַר1
- תַּ֤עַר1
- תַּעְרָ֑הּ1
- תַּעְרֵ֔ךְ1
The grammar of each form
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular5HR/Ncbsc/Sp3fs
- noun · masculine or feminine singular2HNcbsa
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular2HR/Ncbsa
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcbsc
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singular1HNcbsc/Sp2fs
- noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singular1HNcbsc/Sp3fs
- preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncbsc
Numbers
two uses
For the entire period of his vow of separation, no razor shall pass over his head. He must be holy until the time of his separation to the LORD is complete; he must let the hair of his head grow long.
- תַּ֖עַרtaarnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a razor
This is what you must do to cleanse them: Sprinkle them with the water of purification. Have them shave their whole bodies and wash their clothes, and so purify themselves.
- תַ֙עַר֙taarnoun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: a razor
1 Samuel
one use
David ran and stood over him. He grabbed the Philistine’s sword and pulled it from its sheath and killed him; and he cut off his head with the sword. When the Philistines saw that their hero was dead, they turned and ran.
- מִתַּעְרָהּ֙mita'rahpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from sheath its
2 Samuel
one use
And while they were at the great stone in Gibeon, Amasa joined them. Now Joab was dressed in military attire, with a dagger strapped to his belt. And as he stepped forward, he slipped the dagger from its sheath.
- בְּתַעְרָ֔הּbeta'rahpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: in sheath its
Psalms
one use
Your tongue devises destruction like a sharpened razor, O worker of deceit.
- כְּתַ֥עַרketaarpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: like a razor
Isaiah
one use
On that day the Lord will use a razor hired from beyond the Euphrates—the king of Assyria—to shave your head and the hair of your legs, and to remove your beard as well.
- בְּתַ֨עַרbetaarpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singulartagged: with a razor
Jeremiah
two uses
And as soon as Jehudi had read three or four columns, Jehoiakim would cut them off with a scribe’s knife and throw them into the firepot, until the entire scroll had been consumed by the fire.
- בְּתַ֣עַרbetaarpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with knife of
‘Alas, O sword of the LORD, how long until you rest? Return to your sheath; cease and be still!’
- תַּעְרֵ֔ךְta'rekhnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person feminine singulartagged: sheath your
Ezekiel
five uses
“As for you, son of man, take a sharp sword, use it as a barber’s razor, and shave your head and beard. Then take a set of scales and divide the hair.
- תַּ֤עַרtaarnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: the razor of
and tell her that this is what the LORD says: ‘I am against you, and I will draw My sword from its sheath and cut off from you both the righteous and the wicked.
- מִתַּעְרָ֑הּmita'rahpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from sheath its
Because I will cut off both the righteous and the wicked, My sword will be unsheathed against everyone from south to north.
- מִתַּעְרָ֛הּmita'rahpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from sheath its
Then all flesh will know that I, the LORD, have taken My sword from its sheath, not to return it again.’
- מִתַּעְרָ֑הּmita'rahpreposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: from sheath its
Return the sword to its sheath! In the place where you were created, in the land of your origin, I will judge you.
- תַּעְרָ֑הּta'rahnoun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: sheath its
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.