Flesh
בְּשַׁרStrong’s H1321beshar (be-shar)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Beshar is the Aramaic word usually translated “flesh”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it is a rare thing that the king requireth, and there is none other that can shew it before the king, except the gods, whose dwelling is not with flesh.”
Meaning
- Flesh
How it's translated
- flesh 3
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:12In contextThe leaves thereof were fair, and the fruit thereof much, and in it was meat for all: the beasts of the field had shadow under it, and the fowls of the heaven dwelt in the boughs thereof, and all flesh was fed of it.
- Daniel 7:5In contextAnd behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh.
Aramaic dictionary
בְּשַׁר beshar · flesh
flesh Aramaic of ba.sar (בָּשָׂר "flesh" H1320)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flesh” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLESH, noun
[I know not the primary sense; it may be soft.]
- A compound substance forming a large part of an animal, consisting of the softer solids, as distinguished from the bones and the fluids.
- Animal food, in distinction from vegetable.
- The body of beasts and fowls used as food, distinct from fish.
- The body, as distinguished from the soul.
All definitions and other forms of “flesh”
- Animal nature; animals of all kinds.“The end of all flesh is come before me” Genesis 6:13
- Men in general; mankind.“My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh” Genesis 6:3
- Human nature.“The word was made flesh and dwelt among us” John 1:14
- Carnality; corporeal appetites.“The flesh lusteth against the spirit” Galatians 5:17
- A carnal state; a state of unrenewed nature.“They that are in the flesh cannot please God” Romans 8:8
- The corruptible body of man, or corrupt nature.“FLESH and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God” 1 Corinthians 15:50
- The present life; the state of existence in this world.“To abide in the flesh is more needful for you” Philippians 1:24
- Legal righteousness, and ceremonial services.“What shall we then say that Abraham, our father as pertaining to the flesh hath found?” Romans 4:1
- Kindred; stock; family.“He is our brother, and our flesh” Genesis 37:27
- In botany, the soft pulpy substance of fruit; also, that part of a root, fruit, etc., which is fit to be eaten.
FLESH, verb transitive
- To initiate; a sportsman's use of the word, from the practice of training hawks and dogs by feeding them with the first game they take or other flesh
- To harden; to accustom; to establish in any practice, as dogs by often feeding on any thing.
- To glut; to satiate.
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Aramaic, not from any one translation.