saara · hair

What it means

saara (שַׂעֲרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “hair”.

A single hair; also hair in general.

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. A single hair of the head, the least anyone could lose.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• hair ×4
• than the hairs ×2
• hairs ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Judges×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 1 Kings×1
• Job×1
• Psalms×2

• Judges 20:16

  Of all this people there were seven hundred chosen men who were left-handed; every one of these could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

• 1 Samuel 14:45

  The people said to Saul, “Shall Jonathan die, who has worked this great salvation in Israel? Far be it! As YHWH lives, not a hair of his head shall fall to the ground, for with Elohim he has worked this day.” So the people ransomed Jonathan, and he did not die.

• 2 Samuel 14:11

  She said, “Please let the king remember YHWH your Elohim, so that the avenger of blood may not destroy any more, and they may not destroy my son.” He said, “As YHWH lives, not one hair of your son shall fall to the ground.”

• 1 Kings 1:52

  And Solomon said, “If he shows himself a man of worth, not one of his hairs will fall to the ground; but if evil is found in him, he will die.”

• Job 4:15

  A spirit passed over my face; the hair of my flesh bristled.

• Psalms 40:12

  For evils have surrounded me without number; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I am not able to see; they are more than the hairs of my head, and my heart has abandoned me.

• Psalms 69:4

  More than the hairs of my head are those who hate me without cause; mighty are those who would annihilate me, my enemies with lies; what I did not steal, then I restore.