shear · rest, remainder

What it means

shear (שְׁאָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “rest, remainder”.

Rest: what is left of something.

How to say it

Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.

Its senses in the Bible

1. What is left of something or a people.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• remnant ×14
• rest ×12

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×3
• Nehemiah×3
• Esther×2
• Isaiah×12
• Zephaniah×1
• Malachi×1

• 1 Chronicles 11:8

  He built the city all around, from the Millo to the surrounding area; and Joab revived the rest of the city.

• 1 Chronicles 16:41

  And with them Heman and Jeduthun, and the rest of the selected ones who were designated by name to give thanks to YHWH, for his loyal love is forever;

• 2 Chronicles 9:29

  The rest of the deeds of Solomon, the first and the last, are they not written in the words of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Jedo the seer concerning Jeroboam son of Nebat?

• 2 Chronicles 24:14

  When they had finished, they brought before the king and Jehoiada the rest of the silver, and they made it into vessels for the house of YHWH, vessels for ministering and for offering, and spoons and vessels of gold and silver. And they were offering burnt offerings in the house of YHWH continually all the days of Jehoiada.

• Ezra 3:8

  And in the second year of their coming to the house of Elohim at Jerusalem, in the second month, Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel and Jeshua the son of Jozadak and the rest of their brothers, the priests and the Levites, and all who had come from the captivity to Jerusalem, began; and they appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to direct the work of the house of YHWH.

• Ezra 4:3

  But Zerubbabel and Jeshua and the rest of the heads of the fathers’ houses of Israel said to them, “It is not for you and for us to build a house for our Elohim; but we alone will build for YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, as King Cyrus king of Persia commanded us.”

• Ezra 4:7

  And in the days of Artaxerxes Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of his companions wrote to Artaxerxes king of Persia; and the writing of the letter was written in Aramaic and translated in Aramaic.

• Nehemiah 10:28

  And the rest of the people, the priests, the Levites, the gatekeepers, the singers, the Nethinim, and all who had separated themselves from the peoples of the lands to the law of Elohim, their wives, their sons and their daughters, all who knew how to understand,

• Nehemiah 11:1

  The officials of the people lived in Jerusalem; and the rest of the people cast lots to bring one out of ten to live in Jerusalem, the holy city, and the nine parts in the cities.

• Nehemiah 11:20

  And the rest of Israel, the priests, the Levites, were in all the cities of Judah, each in his inheritance.

• Esther 9:12

  And the king said to Esther the queen, “In Susa, the fortress, the Jews have killed and made perish five hundred men and the ten sons of Haman; in the rest of the king’s provinces what have they done? And what is your request? It will be given to you. And what is your petition further? It will be done.”

• Esther 9:16

  And the rest of the Jews who were in the king’s provinces assembled and stood for their lives, and had rest from their enemies, and killed among those who hated them seventy-five thousand; but on the plunder they did not stretch out their hand.

• Isaiah 10:19

  And the remnant of the trees of his forest will be a number that a boy can write down.

• Isaiah 10:20

  And it will happen on that day that the remnant of Israel and the escaped of the house of Jacob will no longer lean on the one who struck them, but will lean on YHWH, the Holy One of Israel, in truth.

• Isaiah 10:21

  A remnant will return, the remnant of Jacob, to Valiant El.

• Isaiah 10:22

  For even if your people, Israel, were like the sand of the sea, a remnant of it will return; destruction is decreed, overflowing with righteousness.

• Isaiah 11:11

  And it will happen on that day that Adonai will again extend his hand a second time to acquire the remnant of his people that remains, from Assyria, from Egypt, from Pathros, from Cush, from Elam, from Shinar, from Hamath, and from the coastlands of the sea.

• Isaiah 11:16

  And there will be a highway for the remnant of his people that remains from Assyria, as there was for Israel on the day they came up from the land of Egypt.

• Isaiah 14:22

  “And I will rise up against them,” declares YHWH Tsevaot, “and I will cut off from Babylon name and remnant, progeny and posterity,” declares YHWH.

• Isaiah 16:14

  But now YHWH has spoken, saying, “Within three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt with all the great multitude; and the remnant will be small, tiny, not mighty.”

• Isaiah 17:3

  And the fortress will cease from Ephraim, and the kingdom from Damascus; and the remnant of Aram will be like the glory of the sons of Israel, declares YHWH Tsevaot.

• Isaiah 21:17

  and the remnant of the number of bows, of the mighty men of the sons of Kedar, will be few; for YHWH, Elohim of Israel, has spoken.”

• Isaiah 28:5

  On that day YHWH Tsevaot will be a crown of adornment and a diadem of beauty for the remnant of his people,

• Zephaniah 1:4

  And I will stretch out my hand against Judah and against all the inhabitants of Jerusalem; and I will cut off from this place the remnant of Baal, the name of the pagan priests along with the priests;

• Malachi 2:15

  And did he not make one, and a remnant of spirit is his? And what of the one? He was seeking offspring of Elohim. So guard yourselves in your spirit, and do not let anyone betray the wife of your youth.

And 1 more times.