Offspring
שֶׁ֫גֶרStrong’s H7698sheger (she-ger)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sheger is the Hebrew word usually translated “young of” and “offspring of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD’s.”
Meaning
- Offspring, young or offspring of beasts
How it's translated
- young of 4
- offspring of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Deuteronomy 4
- Exodus 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 7:13And he will love thee, and bless thee, and multiply thee: he will also bless the fruit of thy womb, and the fruit of thy land, thy corn, and thy wine, and thine oil, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep, in the land which he sware unto thy fathers to give thee.
- Deuteronomy 28:4Blessed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy ground, and the fruit of thy cattle, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
- Deuteronomy 28:18Cursed shall be the fruit of thy body, and the fruit of thy land, the increase of thy kine, and the flocks of thy sheep.
- Deuteronomy 28:51And he shall eat the fruit of thy cattle, and the fruit of thy land, until thou be destroyed: which also shall not leave thee either corn, wine, or oil, or the increase of thy kine, or flocks of thy sheep, until he have destroyed thee.
Hebrew dictionary
שֶׁ֫גֶר sheger · offspring
offspring, young or offspring of beasts
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “offspring” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OFF'SPRING, noun
[off and spring.
- A child or children; a descendant or descendants, however remote from the stock. Acts 17:28Revelation 22:16
- Propagation; generation.
- Production of any kind.
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.