Hair
שְׂעַרStrong’s H8181sear (se-ar)
Appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sear is the Hebrew word usually translated “hair”, “hair of” and “hair his”. It appears in 27 verses of the Old Testament.
“And it shall come to pass in that day, that the prophets shall be ashamed every one of his vision, when he hath prophesied; neither shall they wear a rough garment to deceive:”
Meaning
- Hair (of head)
How it's translated
- hair 10
- hair of 4
- and hair 3
- hair his 3
- and hair its 2
- hair your 2
- for the hair 1
- some of hair of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Leviticus 14
- Numbers 2
- Song of Solomon 2
- Genesis 1
- Judges 1
- 2 Samuel 1
12 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Genesis 25:25And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau.
- Leviticus 13:3And the priest shall look on the plague in the skin of the flesh: and when the hair in the plague is turned white, and the plague in sight be deeper than the skin of his flesh, it is a plague of leprosy: and the priest shall look on him, and pronounce him unclean.
- Leviticus 13:4If the bright spot be white in the skin of his flesh, and in sight be not deeper than the skin, and the hair thereof be not turned white; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague seven days:
- Leviticus 13:10And the priest shall see him: and, behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising;
- Leviticus 13:20And if, when the priest seeth it, behold, it be in sight lower than the skin, and the hair thereof be turned white; the priest shall pronounce him unclean: it is a plague of leprosy broken out of the boil.
- Leviticus 13:21But if the priest look on it, and, behold, there be no white hairs therein, and if it be not lower than the skin, but be somewhat dark; then the priest shall shut him up seven days:
Hebrew 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 Hebrew, not from any one translation.