Shear-jashub
שְׁאָר יָשׁוּבStrong’s H7610shear yashuv (she-ar ya-shuv)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Shear yashuv is the Hebrew word usually translated “shear-” and “jashub”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“Then said the LORD unto Isaiah, Go forth now to meet Ahaz, thou, and Shearjashub thy son, at the end of the conduit of the upper pool in the highway of the fuller’s field;”
Meaning
- A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at Isa.7.3
How it's translated
- and shear- 1
- jashub 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 1
1 book in all.
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Hebrew dictionary
שְׁאָר יָשׁוּב shear yashuv · Shear-jashub
A man living at the time of Divided Monarchy, only mentioned at Isa.7.3; son of: Isaiah (H3470A); brother of: Maher-shalal-hash-baz (H4122) § Shear-jashub = "a remnant shall return" a symbolical name for the son of Isaiah the prophet
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.