Razor
תַּ֫עַרStrong’s H8593taar (ta-ar)
Appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Taar is the Hebrew word usually translated “from sheath its”, “razor” and “sheath its”. It appears in 13 verses of the Old Testament.
“All the days of the vow of his separation there shall no razor come upon his head: until the days be fulfilled, in the which he separateth himself unto the LORD, he shall be holy, and shall let the locks of the hair of his head grow.”
Meaning
- Razor, sheath (making naked)razor · sheath (of sword)
How it's translated
- from sheath its 4
- a razor 2
- in sheath its 1
- like a razor 1
- with a razor 1
- with knife of 1
- sheath your 1
- razor of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Ezekiel 5
- Numbers 2
- Jeremiah 2
- 1 Samuel 1
- 2 Samuel 1
- Psalms 1
7 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 8:7And thus shalt thou do unto them, to cleanse them: Sprinkle water of purifying upon them, and let them shave all their flesh, and let them wash their clothes, and so make themselves clean.
- 1 Samuel 17:51Therefore David ran, and stood upon the Philistine, and took his sword, and drew it out of the sheath thereof, and slew him, and cut off his head therewith. And when the Philistines saw their champion was dead, they fled.
- 2 Samuel 20:8When they were at the great stone which is in Gibeon, Amasa went before them. And Joab’s garment that he had put on was girded unto him, and upon it a girdle with a sword fastened upon his loins in the sheath thereof; and as he went forth it fell out.
- Psalms 52:2Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs; like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
- Isaiah 7:20In the same day shall the Lord shave with a razor that is hired, namely, by them beyond the river, by the king of Assyria, the head, and the hair of the feet: and it shall also consume the beard.
- Jeremiah 36:23And it came to pass, that when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, he cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was on the hearth, until all the roll was consumed in the fire that was on the hearth.
Hebrew dictionary
תַּ֫עַר taar · razor
1) razor, sheath (making naked) 1a) razor 1b) sheath (of sword)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “razor” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
RA'ZOR, noun
[Latin rasus, rado, to scrape.]
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.