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Razor

תַּ֫עַרStrong’s H8593

taar (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.”
Numbers 6:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. 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.

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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.