Shᵉʼêr — H7607

Definition

masculine noun

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

1. flesh, food, body, near kin, near kinswoman
1. flesh
1. as food
2. for physical power (fig)
2. flesh relation, blood relation
3. self

Usually translated as

flesh, kin, kinswoman, body, food, kinsman, near

Origin

from H7604

• Derived from Shâʼar (H7604)

Greek equivalents

• deî (G1163)
• oikeîos (G3609)
• sárx (G4561)
• sōma (G4983)
• trápeza (G5132)

Occurrences

Shᵉʼêr occurs 16 times in the King James.

Distribution of the word across the Bible: Exodus (1), Leviticus (6), Numbers (1), Psalms (3), Proverbs (2), Jeremiah (1), Micah (2)

• Exodus 21:10 — If he take him another wife; her food (שְׁאֵרָ֛הּ), her raiment, and her duty of marriage, shall he not diminish.
• Leviticus 18:6 — None of you shall approach to any that is near (שְׁאֵ֣ר) of kin to him, to uncover their nakedness: I am the LORD.
• Leviticus 18:12 — Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy father’s sister: she is thy father’s near kinswoman (שְׁאֵ֥ר).
• Leviticus 18:13 — Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister: for she is thy mother’s near kinswoman (שְׁאֵ֥ר).
• Leviticus 20:19 — And thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of thy mother’s sister, nor of thy father’s sister: for he uncovereth his near kin (שְׁאֵר֛וֹ): they shall bear their iniquity.
• Leviticus 21:2 — But for his kin (לִשְׁאֵר֔וֹ), that is near unto him, that is, for his mother, and for his father, and for his son, and for his daughter, and for his brother,
• Leviticus 25:49 — Either his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any that is nigh (מִשְּׁאֵ֧ר) of kin unto him of his family may redeem him; or if he be able, he may redeem himself.
• Numbers 27:11 — And if his father have no brethren, then ye shall give his inheritance unto his kinsman (לִשְׁאֵר֞וֹ) that is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it: and it shall be unto the children of Israel a statute of judgment, as the LORD commanded Moses.
• Psalms 73:26 — My flesh (שְׁאֵרִ֗י) and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.
• Psalms 78:20 — Behold, he smote the rock, that the waters gushed out, and the streams overflowed; can he give bread also? can he provide flesh (שְׁאֵ֣ר) for his people?
• Psalms 78:27 — He rained flesh (שְׁאֵ֑ר) also upon them as dust, and feathered fowls like as the sand of the sea:
• Proverbs 5:11 — And thou mourn at the last, when thy flesh and thy body (וּשְׁאֵרֶֽךָ) are consumed,
• Proverbs 11:17 — The merciful man doeth good to his own soul: but he that is cruel troubleth his own flesh (שְׁ֝אֵר֗וֹ).
• Jeremiah 51:35 — The violence done to me and to my flesh (וּשְׁאֵרִי֙) be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.
• Micah 3:2 — Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh (וּשְׁאֵרָ֖ם) from off their bones;
• Micah 3:3 — Who also eat the flesh (שְׁאֵ֣ר) of my people, and flay their skin from off them; and they break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as flesh within the caldron.