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Hairy

שָׂעִרStrong’s H8163

sair (sa-ir)

Appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Sair is the Hebrew word usually translated “male goat of”, “male goat” and “hairy”. It appears in 57 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.”
Daniel 8:21 KJV
Meaning
  1. Adj
  2. He-goat, buckas sacrificial animal
  3. Satyr, may refer to a demon possessed goat like the swine of Gadara (Mt 8:30-32)
How it's translated
  • a male goat of 21
  • and a male goat of 12
  • the male goat 9
  • male goat of 4
  • hairy 3
  • the male goats 2
  • male goats of 1
  • and the male goat 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Numbers 27
  • Leviticus 19
  • Genesis 3
  • Ezekiel 3
  • 2 Chronicles 2
  • Isaiah 2

7 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

שָׂעִר sair · hairy

adj hairy

שָׂעִיר sair · he-goat

1) he-goat, buck 1a) as sacrificial animal

שָׂעִיר sair · satyr

satyr, may refer to a demon possessed goat like the swine of Gadara (Mt 8:30-32)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “hairy” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

HA'IRY, adjective

[from hair.]

Overgrown with hair; covered with hair; abounding with hair.

  1. “Esau, my brother, is a hairy man” Genesis 27:11
  2. Consisting of hair; as hairy honors.
  3. Resembling hair; of the nature of hair.

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.