שֶׁמֶר
shemer · dregs, lees
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8105 · appears 5 times in the Bible
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shemer (שֶׁמֶר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “dregs, lees”.
Dregs: the thick sediment left at the bottom of wine.
How to say it
she·mer
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
- What settles at the bottom of wine.
- Wines kept a long time, settled.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- aged wines ×2
- dregs ×2
- lees ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Psalms 75:8
For a cup is in the hand of YHWH, and the wine foams, full of mixture; and he pours out from it; surely its dregs they will drain; all the wicked of the earth will drink.
- Isaiah 25:6
And YHWH Tsevaot will make for all the peoples on this mountain a feast of rich foods, a feast of aged wines, of rich foods full of marrow, of aged wines well refined.
- Jeremiah 48:11
Moab has been at ease from his youth, and he has rested quietly on his lees, and he has not been emptied from vessel to vessel, and into exile he has not gone; therefore his taste has remained in him, and his scent has not changed.
- Zephaniah 1:12
And it will happen at that time that I will search Jerusalem with lamps, and I will call to account the men who are congealed on their dregs, who say in their heart, ‘YHWH will not do good, nor will he do evil.’
And 1 more times.