Kinswomen
שַׁאֲרָהStrong’s H7608shaarah (sha-a-rah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shaarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “relative”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Thou shalt not uncover the nakedness of a woman and her daughter, neither shalt thou take her son’s daughter, or her daughter’s daughter, to uncover her nakedness; for they are her near kinswomen: it is wickedness.”
Meaning
- Kinswomen
How it's translated
- relative 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁאֲרָה shaarah · kinswomen
kinswomen A grammatical form of she.er (שְׁאֵר "flesh" H7607)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “relative” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REL'ATIVE, adjective
[Latin relativus.]
- Having relation; respecting.
- Not absolute or existing by itself; considered as belonging to or respecting something else.
- Incident to man in society; as relative rights and duties.
- Particular; positive. [Not in use.]
All definitions and other forms of “relative”
REL'ATIVE, noun
- A person connected by blood or affinity; strictly, one allied by blood; a relation; a kinsman or kinswoman.
- That which has relation to something else.
- In grammar, a word which relates to or represents another word, called its antecedent, or to a sentence or member of a sentence, or to a series of sentences, which constitutes its antecedent. 'He seldom lives frugally, who lives by chance.' Here who is the relative which represents he, the antecedent.
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.