Male
זָכוּרStrong’s H2138zakhur (za-khur)
Appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zakhur is the Hebrew word usually translated “male your” and “male its”. It appears in 4 verses of the Old Testament.
“Three times in the year all thy males shall appear before the LORD God.”
Meaning
- Male
How it's translated
- male your 3
- male its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Deuteronomy 2
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 34:23Thrice in the year shall all your menchildren appear before the LORD God, the God of Israel.
- Deuteronomy 16:16Three times in a year shall all thy males appear before the LORD thy God in the place which he shall choose; in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles: and they shall not appear before the LORD empty:
- Deuteronomy 20:13And when the LORD thy God hath delivered it into thine hands, thou shalt smite every male thereof with the edge of the sword:
Hebrew dictionary
זָכוּר zakhur · male
male
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “male” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
MALE, adjective
[Latin masculus, from mas, maris.]
- Pertaining to the sex that procreates young, and applied to animals of all kinds; as a male child; a male beast, fish, or fowl.
- Denoting the sex of a plant which produces the fecundating dust, or a flower or plant that bears the stamens only, without pistils.
- Denoting the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding or female screw.
All definitions and other forms of “male”
MALE, noun
Among animals, one of the sex whose office is to beget young; a he-animal.
- In botany, a plant of flower which produces stamens only, without pistils.
- In mechanics, the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding part or female screw.
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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.