sear · hair

What it means

sear (שֵׂעָר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hair”.

Body hair.

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. The hair of the body, of the head or of an animal.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hair ×26
• hairy ×2

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×15
• Numbers×2
• Judges×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Ezra×1
• Psalms×1
• Song of Songs×2
• Isaiah×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Zechariah×1

• Genesis 25:25

  The first came out reddish, all of him like a cloak of hair, and they called his name Esau.

• Leviticus 13:3

  The priest shall examine the sore on the skin of the body; and if the hair in the sore has turned white and the appearance of the sore is deeper than the skin of his body, it is a leprous sore; when the priest has examined him he shall declare him unclean.

• Leviticus 13:4

  But if the bright spot is white on the skin of his body and its appearance is not deeper than the skin, and its hair has not turned white, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore seven days.

• Leviticus 13:10

  The priest shall examine him, and if there is a white swelling in the skin, and it has turned the hair white, and there is a patch of raw flesh in the swelling,

• Leviticus 13:20

  The priest shall examine it, and if its appearance is lower than the skin and its hair has turned white, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore; it has broken out in the ulcer.

• Leviticus 13:21

  But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in it and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.

• Leviticus 13:25

  the priest shall examine it, and if the hair in the bright spot has turned white and its appearance is deeper than the skin, it is leprosy; it has broken out in the burn, and the priest shall declare him unclean; it is a leprous sore.

• Leviticus 13:26

  But if the priest examines it and, look, there is no white hair in the bright spot and it is not lower than the skin but it has faded, the priest shall isolate him seven days.

• Leviticus 13:30

  the priest shall examine the sore, and if its appearance is deeper than the skin and there is in it yellowish thin hair, the priest shall declare him unclean; it is ringworm; it is leprosy of the head or of the beard.

• Leviticus 13:31

  But if the priest examines the sore of ringworm and, look, its appearance is not deeper than the skin and there is no black hair in it, the priest shall isolate the one with the sore of ringworm seven days.

• Leviticus 13:32

  The priest shall examine the sore on the seventh day, and if the ringworm has not spread and there has not been yellowish hair in it, and the appearance of the ringworm is not deeper than the skin,

• Leviticus 13:36

  the priest shall examine him, and if the ringworm has spread in the skin, the priest need not look for the yellowish hair; he is unclean.

• Leviticus 13:37

  But if in his eyes the ringworm has stayed as it was and black hair has grown in it, the ringworm has healed; he is clean, and the priest shall declare him clean.

• Leviticus 14:8

  The one being purified shall wash his garments, shave off all his hair, and bathe in water, and he will be clean; and after that he may come into the camp, but he shall remain outside his tent seven days.

• Leviticus 14:9

  On the seventh day he shall shave off all his hair: his head, his beard, and the brows of his eyes; all his hair he shall shave off; he shall wash his garments and bathe his body in water, and he will be clean.

• Numbers 6:5

  All the days of his vow of consecration no razor shall pass over his head; until the days are fulfilled for which he separates himself to YHWH, he shall be holy; he shall let grow loose the hair of his head.

• Numbers 6:18

  And the Nazirite shall shave his consecrated head at the entrance of the tent of meeting, and take the hair of his consecrated head and put it on the fire that is under the sacrifice of peace.

• Judges 16:22

  But the hair of his head began to grow after he had been shaved.

• 2 Samuel 14:26

  When he shaved his head —and it was at the end of every year that he shaved it, for it was heavy on him, and he shaved it —he weighed the hair of his head: two hundred shekels by the weight of the king.

• 2 Kings 1:8

  They said to him, “A hairy man, with a belt of leather tied around his waist.” He said, “It is Elijah the Tishbite.”

• Ezra 9:3

  And when I heard this thing, I tore my garment and my robe, and pulled out some of the hair of my head and my beard, and sat appalled.

• Psalms 68:21

  Surely Elohim will crush the head of his enemies, the hairy crown of the one who walks in his guilt.

• Song of Songs 4:1

  Look, you are beautiful, my companion; look, you are beautiful; your eyes are doves behind your veil; your hair is like a flock of goats that ripple down from Mount Gilead.

• Song of Songs 6:5

  Turn away your eyes from me, for they unsettle me; your hair is like a flock of goats that ripple down from Gilead.

• Isaiah 7:20

  On that day Adonai will shave with a hired razor from beyond the River, with the king of Assyria, the head and the hair of the feet, and it will also sweep away the beard.

• Ezekiel 16:7

  A myriad, like the growth of the field, I made you, and you grew and became tall and came to the ornament of ornaments; your breasts were formed, and your hair had grown; yet you were naked and bare.

• Zechariah 13:4

  And it will happen on that day that the prophets will be ashamed, each of his vision when he prophesies; and they will not put on a mantle of hair in order to lie.

And 1 more times.