zahar · warn, teach; shine

What it means

zahar (זָהַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “warn, teach; shine”.

Warn, teach by giving warning. In other places, shine.

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. To alert someone to danger, instruct them.
2. To give a clear, intense light, like the sky.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• warn ×10
• warned ×5
• let himself be warned ×4
• Teach ×1
• warns ×1
• will shine ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Exodus×1
• 2 Kings×1
• 2 Chronicles×1
• Psalms×1
• Ecclesiastes×2
• Ezekiel×15
• Daniel×1

• Exodus 18:20

  Teach them the statutes and the instructions, and make known to them the way in which they must walk, and the work that they must do.

• 2 Kings 6:10

  The king of Israel sent to the place that the man of Elohim had told him and warned him about, and he was on guard there, not once or twice.

• 2 Chronicles 19:10

  In every dispute that comes to you from your brothers who live in their cities, between blood and blood, between law and commandment, statutes and rules, you shall warn them, so that they do not incur guilt before YHWH and wrath come on you and on your brothers. Thus you shall do, and you will not incur guilt.

• Psalms 19:11

  Also your servant is warned by them; in keeping them there is great reward.

• Ecclesiastes 4:13

  Better is a poor and wise youth than an old and senseless king who no longer knows how to be warned.

• Ecclesiastes 12:12

  And besides these, my son, be warned: of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh.

• Ezekiel 3:17

  “Son of man, a watchman I have made you for the house of Israel; you will hear a word from my mouth, and you will warn them from me.

• Ezekiel 3:18

  When I say to the wicked, ‘You will surely die,’ and you do not warn him and do not speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way to keep him alive, that wicked man will die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand.

• Ezekiel 3:19

  But you, if you warn the wicked and he does not turn from his wickedness or from his wicked way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.

• Ezekiel 3:20

  And when a righteous man turns from his righteousness and does injustice, and I put a stumbling block before him, he will die; because you did not warn him, for his sin he will die, and his acts of righteousness that he did will not be remembered, but his blood I will require from your hand.

• Ezekiel 3:21

  But you, if you warn him, the righteous man, so that the righteous man does not sin, and he does not sin, he will surely live, because he let himself be warned; and you will have delivered your soul.”

• Ezekiel 33:3

  and he sees the sword coming upon the land, and blows the horn and warns the people,

• Ezekiel 33:4

  and the hearer hears the sound of the horn and does not let himself be warned, and the sword comes and takes him away, his blood will be on his head.

• Ezekiel 33:5

  The sound of the horn he heard and did not let himself be warned; his blood will be on him; but he, had he let himself be warned, would have saved his soul.

• Ezekiel 33:6

  And the watchman, if he sees the sword coming and does not blow the horn, and the people do not let themselves be warned, and the sword comes and takes from them a soul, he is taken away for his iniquity, but his blood I will require from the hand of the watchman.

• Ezekiel 33:7

  And you, son of man, a watchman I have made you for the house of Israel; you will hear a word from my mouth, and you will warn them from me.

• Ezekiel 33:8

  When I say to the wicked, “Wicked man, you will surely die,” and you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man will die for his iniquity, but his blood I will require from your hand.

• Ezekiel 33:9

  But you, if you warn the wicked from his way to turn from it, and he does not turn from his way, he will die for his iniquity, but you will have delivered your soul.

• Daniel 12:3

  And the insightful will shine like the brightness of the vault, and those who make the many righteous, like the stars forever and ever.

And 3 more times.