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תַּעַר

taʻar · H8593 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences

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A word for 2 things

Meanings

  1. a razor or penknife

    A sharp knife used to shave hair from the skin and also to sharpen one's pen

    Examples

    Numbers 6:5 ‘All the days of his vow of consecration no razor shall pass over his head. He shall be holy until the days are fulfilled which he lives as a Nazirite for the LORD; he shall let the locks of hair on his head grow long.

    Numbers 8:7 “This is what you shall do to them, for their cleansing: sprinkle purifying water on them, and have them use a razor over their whole body, and they shall wash their clothes and cleanse themselves.

    Psalm 52:2 Your tongue devises destruction, Like a sharp razor, you worker of deceit.

  2. a sheath or scabbard

    A case or bag about the size and shape of a sword, hung from a strap or belt, used to cover and carry the sword

    Examples

    1 Samuel 17:51 Then David ran and stood over the Philistine, and took his sword and drew it out of its sheath and finished him, and cut off his head with it. When the Philistines saw that their champion was dead, they fled.

    2 Samuel 20:8 When they were at the large stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa came to meet them. Now Joab was dressed in his military attire, and over it he had a belt with a sword in its sheath strapped on at his waist; and as he went forward, it fell out.

    Jeremiah 47:6 “Ah, sword of the LORD, How long will you not be quiet? Withdraw into your sheath; Rest and stay still.

How it’s used In 6 roles

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

the word studied the word it goes with

Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive

10 occurrences in 5 groups

Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

1 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

Second object ofSecond object

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

9 occurrences in 4 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.

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Semantic domains 3 entries
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This noun denotes a razor, as in Numbers 6:5's instruction that no razor pass over the head of one under a Nazirite vow.
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The noun also denotes a sheath holding a sword, as in 1 Samuel 17:51's account of David drawing the Philistine's sword out of its sheath.
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The noun also denotes military equipment worn at the waist, as in 2 Samuel 20:8's description of Joab's sword strapped in its sheath on his belt.
Word family 9 words

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

עָרָה ʻârâh · H6168 · to uncover, to make bare, to strip · 15×עֶרְוָה ʻervâh · H6172 · nakedness, to have intercourse, to have sex · 54×תַּעַרtaʻar · H8593עֶרְיָה ʻeryâh · H6181 · naked, to uncover · 6×מַעַר maʻar · H4626 · empty space, nakedness · 2×מַעֲרֶה maʻăreh · H4629 · open space · 1×עָרָה ʻârâh · H6169 · bare place, reed grass, reeds · 1×עַרְוָה ʻarvâh · H6173 · dishonor · 1×מַעֲרָה maʻărâh · H4630 · row, layer, battle order · 0×
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8593. taar תַּ֫עַר noun masculinePsa 52:4 and (Isa 7:20) feminine razor, sheath; — 1. a.…
H8593. taar
תַּ֫עַר noun masculinePsa 52:4 and (Isa 7:20) feminine razor, sheath; —
1. a. razor, absolute בְּת ׳יְגַלַּח Isa 7:20 (figurative); subject of עַלרֿאֹשׁ יַעֲבֹר לֹא Num 6:5, object of עַלֿ הֶעֱבִיר Num 8:7 (P), compare construct ׳ת הַגַּלָּבִים Eze 5:1; absolute ׳כְּת מְלֻטָּשׁ Psa 52:4 (simile of tongue).
b. construct ׳ת הַסֹּפֵר Jer 36:23 = penknife.
2 sheath, always suffix of sword: בְּתַעְרָהּ 2Sa 20:8; of drawing sword, מִתּ ׳שָׁלַף 1Sa 17:51, מִתּ ׳הוֺצִיא Eze 21:8; Eze 21:10, מִתּ ׳תֵּצֵא Eze 21:9; of sheathing, אֶלתַּֿרְעֵךְ הֵאָֽסְפִי Jer 47:6; אֶלתַּֿעְרָהּ הָשַׁב Ezekiel 21:35.

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

Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Containers7 occurrencesTools6 occurrences

Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; 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.

Sources

eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0

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