Hairy
שָׂעִרStrong’s H8163sair (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.”
Meaning
- Adj
- He-goat, buckas sacrificial animal
- 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.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 27:11And Jacob said to Rebekah his mother, Behold, Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man:
- Genesis 27:23And he discerned him not, because his hands were hairy, as his brother Esau’s hands: so he blessed him.
- Genesis 37:31And they took Joseph’s coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;
- Leviticus 4:23Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:
- Leviticus 4:24And he shall lay his hand upon the head of the goat, and kill it in the place where they kill the burnt offering before the LORD: it is a sin offering.
- Leviticus 9:3And unto the children of Israel thou shalt speak, saying, Take ye a kid of the goats for a sin offering; and a calf and a lamb, both of the first year, without blemish, for a burnt offering;
All 57 verses, by book
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.
- “Esau, my brother, is a hairy man” Genesis 27:11
- Consisting of hair; as hairy honors.
- 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.