sheerit · remnant

What it means

sheerit (שְׁאֵרִית) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “remnant”.

Those left alive after a disaster.

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. Those left alive after a disaster.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Remnant: what is left of something or of a group after a loss; above all, those of a people who survive after the judgment. It is of the root שָׁאַר (remain, be left, H7604).

• Preserving a remnant alive Genesis 45:7Jeremiah 42:2
• “From Jerusalem will go out a remnant” 2 Kings 19:31Isaiah 37:32
• The remnant YHWH will gather Jeremiah 23:3Micah 2:12Micah 4:7
• The remnant of the people that listens Haggai 1:12Zephaniah 3:13
• What is left of a thing Isaiah 44:17

How we translate it

“Remnant” 57 times, also in the prophets' announcements, so that the reader sees it is the same word as in the narratives (“all this remnant”, the people say to Jeremiah in 42:2); “rest” 8 when it is what is left of a thing (“the rest of it”, Isaiah 44:17). It often goes with פְּלֵיטָה, those who escape (2 Kings 19:31).

How it is translated

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

• remnant ×57
• rest ×8
• remainder ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• 2 Samuel×1
• 2 Kings×3
• 1 Chronicles×2
• 2 Chronicles×2
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1
• Isaiah×6
• Jeremiah×24
• Ezekiel×7
• Amos×3
• Micah×5
• Zephaniah×3
• Haggai×3
• Zechariah×3

• Genesis 45:7

  Elohim sent me before you to preserve for you a remnant on the earth, and to keep you alive by a great deliverance.

• 2 Samuel 14:7

  And look, the whole family has risen against your servant, and they have said, ‘Hand over the one who struck his brother, so that we may put him to death for the life of his brother whom he killed, and we will destroy the heir too.’ So they will quench my coal that is left, so as not to leave to my husband name or remnant on the face of the ground.”

• 2 Kings 19:4

  Perhaps YHWH your Elohim will hear all the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to taunt the living Elohim, and will rebuke him for the words that YHWH your Elohim has heard; so lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

• 2 Kings 19:31

  For from Jerusalem will go out a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of YHWH Tsevaot will do this.

• 2 Kings 21:14

  I will forsake the remnant of my heritage and give them into the hand of their enemies, and they will become plunder and spoil to all their enemies,

• 1 Chronicles 4:43

  And they struck the remnant of those who had escaped of Amalek, and they have lived there to this day.

• 1 Chronicles 12:38

  All these, men of war, drawn up in battle order, came with a whole heart to Hebron to make David king over all Israel; and also all the rest of Israel was of one heart to make David king.

• 2 Chronicles 34:9

  They came to Hilkiah the high priest and gave the silver that was brought into the house of Elohim, which the Levites, the keepers of the threshold, had gathered from the hand of Manasseh and Ephraim and from all the remnant of Israel and from all Judah and Benjamin, and the inhabitants of Jerusalem.

• 2 Chronicles 36:20

  He carried into exile the remnant left from the sword to Babylon, and they became slaves to him and to his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to reign;

• Ezra 9:14

  shall we again break your commandments and intermarry with the peoples of these abominations? Would you not be angry with us until you made an end of us, so that there is no remnant or escapees?

• Nehemiah 7:72

  And what the rest of the people gave was twenty thousand drachmas of gold, and two thousand minas of silver, and sixty-seven tunics of priests.

• Psalms 76:10

  For the fury of human beings will give you thanks; with the remainder of furies you will gird yourself.

• Isaiah 14:30

  And the firstborn of the poor will graze, and the needy will lie down in safety; but I will kill your root with famine, and it will kill your remnant.

• Isaiah 15:9

  For the waters of Dimon are full of blood; for I will bring upon Dimon additions: for the escaped of Moab a lion, and for the remnant of the ground.

• Isaiah 37:4

  Perhaps YHWH your Elohim will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom the king of Assyria his master has sent to taunt the living Elohim, and will rebuke him for the words that YHWH your Elohim has heard; so lift up a prayer for the remnant that is left.’”

• Isaiah 37:32

  For from Jerusalem will go out a remnant, and those who escape from Mount Zion. The zeal of YHWH Tsevaot will do this.

• Isaiah 44:17

  And the rest of it he makes into a god, his carved image; he falls down before it and bows down and prays to it and says, “Deliver me, for you are my god.”

• Isaiah 46:3

  “Listen to me, house of Jacob, and all the remnant of the house of Israel, you who have been loaded on me from the womb, who have been carried from the mother’s womb:

• Jeremiah 6:9

  Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: “They will glean thoroughly as a vine the remnant of Israel; turn back your hand like a grape gatherer over the branches.”

• Jeremiah 8:3

  And death will be chosen rather than life by all the remnant that remains of this evil clan, in all the places where they remain, where I have driven them, declares YHWH Tsevaot.

• Jeremiah 11:23

  and there will be no remnant left for them, for I will bring evil on the men of Anathoth, the year of their punishment.”

• Jeremiah 15:9

  She who bore seven languishes; she has breathed out her soul; her sun has gone down while it was still day; she has been put to shame and abashed. And the rest of them I will give to the sword before their enemies, declares YHWH.”

• Jeremiah 23:3

  And I will gather the remnant of my sheep out of all the lands where I have driven them, and I will bring them back to their abode, and they will be fruitful and multiply.

• Jeremiah 24:8

  And like the figs that are bad, which cannot be eaten for badness —for thus says YHWH— so will I give up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt.

• Jeremiah 25:20

  and all the mixed peoples, and all the kings of the land of Uz, and all the kings of the land of the Philistines, and Ashkelon, and Gaza, and Ekron, and the remnant of Ashdod;

• Jeremiah 31:7

  For thus says YHWH: “Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout at the head of the nations; proclaim, praise, and say, ‘Save, YHWH, your people, the remnant of Israel.’

• Jeremiah 39:3

  Then all the princes of the king of Babylon came and sat in the Middle Gate: Nergal-sharezer, Samgar-nebo, Sarsechim the Rabsaris, Nergal-sharezer the Rabmag, and all the rest of the princes of the king of Babylon.

• Jeremiah 40:11

  Likewise, all the Jews who were in Moab and among the sons of Ammon and in Edom and who were in all the lands, heard that the king of Babylon had given a remnant to Judah, and that he had appointed over them Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan.

• Jeremiah 40:15

  Then Johanan son of Kareah said to Gedaliah in secret at Mizpah, saying, “Let me go, please, and strike Ishmael son of Nethaniah, and no one will know. Why should he strike you dead, and all Judah be scattered, who are gathered to you, and the remnant of Judah perish?”

• Jeremiah 41:10

  Then Ishmael took captive all the remnant of the people who were at Mizpah, the daughters of the king and all the people who were left at Mizpah, whom Nebuzaradan the chief of the guard had entrusted to Gedaliah son of Ahikam; Ishmael son of Nethaniah took them captive and went to cross over to the sons of Ammon.

• Jeremiah 41:16

  Then Johanan son of Kareah and all the chiefs of the forces who were with him took all the remnant of the people whom he had brought back from Ishmael son of Nethaniah, from Mizpah, after he had struck down Gedaliah son of Ahikam: men, men of war, and women and little ones and court officials, whom he had brought back from Gibeon.

• Jeremiah 42:2

  and they said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication fall before you, and pray for us to YHWH your Elohim, for all this remnant —for we are left a few out of many, as your eyes see us—

• Jeremiah 42:15

  now, therefore, hear the word of YHWH, remnant of Judah: Thus says YHWH Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: If you really set your faces to go to Egypt, and go to reside as aliens there,

• Jeremiah 42:19

  YHWH has spoken against you, remnant of Judah: ‘Do not go to Egypt.’ Know for certain that I have warned you today.

• Jeremiah 43:5

  But Johanan son of Kareah and all the chiefs of the forces took all the remnant of Judah who had returned from all the nations where they had been driven to reside as aliens in the land of Judah:

• Jeremiah 44:7

  And now, thus says YHWH Elohim Tsevaot, the Elohim of Israel: Why are you doing great evil against your souls, to cut off from you man and woman, child and nursing child, from the midst of Judah, so as not to leave you a remnant,

• Jeremiah 44:12

  And I will take the remnant of Judah who have set their faces to go to the land of Egypt to reside as aliens there, and they will all come to an end; in the land of Egypt they will fall; by the sword and by famine they will come to an end; from the small to the great, by the sword and by famine they will die; and they will become an imprecation, a horror, and a curse and a reproach.

• Jeremiah 44:14

  And there will be no fugitive or survivor of the remnant of Judah who have come to reside as aliens there, in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Judah, where they lift up their soul to return to live there; for they will not return, except some escaped ones.”

• Jeremiah 44:28

  And those who escape the sword will return from the land of Egypt to the land of Judah, few in number; and all the remnant of Judah who have come to the land of Egypt to reside as aliens there will know whose word will stand, mine or theirs.

• Jeremiah 47:4

  because of the day that is coming to devastate all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon every survivor who helps; for YHWH is devastating the Philistines, the remnant of the island of Caphtor.

And 26 more times.