Hair
שַׂעֲרָהStrong’s H8185saarah (sa-a-rah)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “one of hair of”, “more than hairs of” and “single hair”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“Among all this people there were seven hundred chosen men lefthanded; every one could sling stones at an hair breadth, and not miss.”
Meaning
- A single hair
How it's translated
- one of hair of 2
- more than hairs of 2
- the single hair 1
- one of hair his 1
- hair of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 2
- Judges 1
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Job 1
6 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Samuel 14:45And the people said unto Saul, Shall Jonathan die, who hath wrought this great salvation in Israel? God forbid: as the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of his head fall to the ground; for he hath wrought with God this day. So the people rescued Jonathan, that he died not.
- 2 Samuel 14:11Then said she, I pray thee, let the king remember the LORD thy God, that thou wouldest not suffer the revengers of blood to destroy any more, lest they destroy my son. And he said, As the LORD liveth, there shall not one hair of thy son fall to the earth.
- 1 Kings 1:52And Solomon said, If he will shew himself a worthy man, there shall not an hair of him fall to the earth: but if wickedness shall be found in him, he shall die.
- Job 4:15Then a spirit passed before my face; the hair of my flesh stood up:
- Psalms 40:12For innumerable evils have compassed me about: mine iniquities have taken hold upon me, so that I am not able to look up; they are more than the hairs of mine head: therefore my heart faileth me.
- Psalms 69:4They that hate me without a cause are more than the hairs of mine head: they that would destroy me, being mine enemies wrongfully, are mighty: then I restored that which I took not away.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׂעֲרָה saarah · hair
a single hair
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.