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שָׂעִיר

sâʻîyr · H8164 · Hebrew · 1 occurrence

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Meanings

  1. shower

    Shower of rain, regarded as a blessing

    Examples

    Deuteronomy 32:2 “May my teaching drip as the rain, My speech trickle as the dew, As droplets on the fresh grass, And as the showers on the vegetation.

How it’s used In 1 role

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

1 occurrences in 1 groups

When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.

MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.

Semantic domains 4 entries
Domestic Animals001001002002
שָׂעִיר (sâʻîyr, H8164)'s own occurrence (only 1, with no distinguishing gloss recovered) gives no independent basis for the "Domestic Animals" domain beyond what is recorded for its bundle partner. That classification is bundle-shared with שָׂעִיר (sâʻîyr, H8163) in the source data and is not independently confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrence.
Deities001001001
שָׂעִיר (sâʻîyr, H8164)'s own occurrence (only 1, with no distinguishing gloss recovered) gives no independent basis for the "Deities" domain beyond what is recorded for its bundle partner. That classification is bundle-shared with שָׂעִיר (sâʻîyr, H8163) in the source data and is not independently confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrence.
Shape002001001052
שָׂעִיר (sâʻîyr, H8164)'s own occurrence (only 1, with no distinguishing gloss recovered) gives no independent basis for the "Shape" domain beyond what is recorded for its bundle partner. That classification is bundle-shared with שָׂעִיר (sâʻîyr, H8163) in the source data and is not independently confirmed by this lexeme's own occurrence.
Rain001002005011
This noun denotes a light, gentle rain, as in Deuteronomy 32:2's comparison of Moses' teaching to showers falling on the vegetation.
Word family 10 words

Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.

שָׂעַר sâʻar · H8175 · to be in terror · 8×שָׂעִיר sâʻîyr · H8163 · (shaggy) he-goat, goat-demon, satyr · 59×שְׂעֹרָה sᵉʻôrâh · H8184 · barley · 34×שֵׂעָר sêʻâr · H8181 · hair · 28×שַׂעֲרָה saʻărâh · H8185 · hair · 7×שַׂעַר saʻar · H8178 · terror, to be in terror · 4×שְׂעַר sᵉʻar · H8177 · hair · 3×שְׂעִירָה sᵉʻîyrâh · H8166 · (shaggy) she-goat · 2×שְׂעָרָה sᵉʻârâh · H8183 · storm · 2×שָׂעִירsâʻîyr · H8164
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8164. sair שְׂעִירִים noun [masculine] plural rain (-drops), si vera lectio; (so…
H8164. sair
שְׂעִירִים noun [masculine] plural rain (-drops), si vera lectio; (so according to Vrss and context; Thes compare II.שַׂעַר; Lag proposes רְסִיסִים); — ׳כִּשׂ עֲלֵידֶֿשֶׁא Deu 32:2 (|| רְבִיבִים טַל, מָטָר,).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Sources

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