sheer · flesh, close relative

What it means

sheer (שְׁאֵר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flesh, close relative”.

Flesh, meat; also food. And so a close relative, someone "of the same flesh".

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 soft tissue of the body, or animal food.
2. The provisions owed.
3. Oneself, one's own person.
4. A close relative.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• close relative ×5
• body ×3
• flesh ×3
• meat ×2
• close relatives ×1
• food ×1
• relative ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• Leviticus×6
• Numbers×1
• Psalms×3
• Proverbs×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Micah×2

• Exodus 21:10

  If he takes another wife for himself, he shall not reduce her food, her clothing, or her conjugal rights.

• Leviticus 18:6

  None of you shall approach any close relative to uncover nakedness. I am YHWH.

• Leviticus 18:12

  The nakedness of your father’s sister you shall not uncover; she is a close relative of your father.

• Leviticus 18:13

  The nakedness of your mother’s sister you shall not uncover, for she is a close relative of your mother.

• Leviticus 20:19

  And the nakedness of your mother’s sister or of your father’s sister you shall not uncover, for that is laying bare one’s own close relative; they shall bear their iniquity.

• Leviticus 21:2

  except for his close relative who is near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, and for his brother,

• Leviticus 25:49

  or his uncle or his uncle’s son may redeem him, or one of his close relatives from his clan may redeem him; or if his hand prospers, he may redeem himself.

• Numbers 27:11

  And if there are no brothers of his father, you shall give his inheritance to his relative who is nearest to him from his family, and he shall possess it. And it shall be for the sons of Israel a statute of justice, as YHWH commanded Moses.”

• Psalms 73:26

  My body and my heart are consumed; the rock of my heart and my portion is Elohim forever.

• Psalms 78:20

  Look, he struck the rock and waters flowed, and streams overflowed; can he also give bread, or provide meat for his people?”

• Psalms 78:27

  and rained down upon them meat like dust, and like the sand of the seas, winged birds,

• Proverbs 5:11

  and you groan at your end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,

• Proverbs 11:17

  A man of loyal love does good to his soul, but the cruel man troubles his body.

• Jeremiah 51:35

  ‘My violence and my flesh be upon Babylon,’ the inhabitant of Zion will say; ‘and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea,’ Jerusalem will say.”

• Micah 3:2

  You who hate good and love evil, who tear away their skin from off them and their flesh from off their bones;

• Micah 3:3

  and who eat the flesh of my people, and their skin from off them they strip, and their bones they break, and they chop them up as in the pot, and like meat in the midst of the cauldron.”