To shear
כָּסַםStrong’s H3697kasam (ka-sam)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Kasam is the Hebrew word usually translated “surely” and “trim”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Neither shall they shave their heads, nor suffer their locks to grow long; they shall only poll their heads.”
Meaning
- (Qal) to cut, clip, trim, shear
How it's translated
- surely 1
- they will trim 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
כָּסַם kasam · to shear
(Qal) to cut, clip, trim, shear
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “shear” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SHEAR, verb transitive
preterit tense sheared; participle passive sheared or shorn. The old preterit tense shore is entirely obsolete.
- To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
- To separate by shears; as, to shear a fleece.
- To reap. [Not in use.] Scotish.
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.