Hair
שְׂעַרStrong’s H8177sear (se-ar)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sear is the Aramaic word usually translated “hair of” and “hair his”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king’s counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.”
Meaning
- Hair (of head)
How it's translated
- and hair of 2
- hair his 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 3
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Daniel 4:33In contextThe same hour was the thing fulfilled upon Nebuchadnezzar: and he was driven from men, and did eat grass as oxen, and his body was wet with the dew of heaven, till his hairs were grown like eagles’ feathers, and his nails like birds’ claws.
- Daniel 7:9In contextI beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne was like the fiery flame, and his wheels as burning fire.
Aramaic dictionary
שְׂעַר sear · hair
hair (of head) Aramaic of se.ar (שֵׂעָר "hair" H8181)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “hair” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
HAIR, noun
- A small filament issuing from the skin of an animal, and from a bulbous root.
- The collection or mass of filaments growing from the skin of an animal, and forming an integument or covering; as the hair of the head. hair is the common covering of many beasts.
- Any thing very small or fine; or a very small distance; the breadth of a hair He judges to a hair that is, very exactly.
- A trifling value.
All definitions
- Course; order; grain; the hair falling in a certain direction. [Not used.]
- Long, straight and distinct filaments on the surface of plants; a species of down or pubescence.
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.