Male
זָכָרStrong’s H2145zakhar (za-khar)
Appears in 80 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Zakhar is the Hebrew word usually translated “male”, “males” and “from male”. It appears in 80 verses of the Old Testament.
“So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.”
Meaning
- Male (of humans and animals)
- Male (of humans)
How it's translated
- male 38
- a male 20
- the males 15
- the male 4
- for male 1
- for the male 1
- from male 1
- to males 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 18
- Numbers 17
- Genesis 14
- Ezra 12
- Exodus 4
- Deuteronomy 2
14 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 5:2Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
- Genesis 6:19And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
- Genesis 7:3Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
- Genesis 7:9There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
- Genesis 7:16And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
- Genesis 17:10This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
All 80 verses, by book
Hebrew dictionary
זָכָר zakhar · male
1) male (of humans and animals) adj 2) male (of humans)
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.