בָּשָׂרbâsâr
Pronunciation: baw-sawr' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H1320
Meanings
1. of the body
a. of animals (Genesis 41:2-19; Exodus 21:28; Exodus 22:30)
b. of men (Genesis 40:19; Genesis 2:21; Exodus 4:7)
2. flesh for the body itself (Exodus 30:32; Leviticus 6:3; Leviticus 16:4)
3. male organ of generation (euphemism) (Genesis 17:11; Genesis 17:14; Genesis 17:23)
4. flesh for kindred, blood-relations (Genesis 2:23; Genesis 2:24; Genesis 29:14)
5. man over against God as frail or erring (Genesis 6:3; Psalms 56:5; Psalms 78:39)
6. the phrase ׃כָּלבָּֿשָׂר
a. all living beings (Genesis 6:17; Genesis 6:19; Genesis 7:21)
b. animals (Genesis 7:15; Genesis 7:16; Genesis 8:17)
c. mankind (Genesis 6:12; Genesis 6:18; Numbers 16:22)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 270 times in the Bible.
- Genesis 2:21 So the Lord God caused the man to fall into a deep sleep. While the man slept, the Lord God took out one of the man’s ribs and closed up the opening.
- Genesis 2:23 “At last!” the man exclaimed. “This one is bone from my bone, and flesh from my flesh! She will be called ‘woman,’ because she was taken from ‘man.’”
- Genesis 2:24 This explains why a man leaves his father and mother and is joined to his wife, and the two are united into one.
- Genesis 6:3 Then the Lord said, “My Spirit will not put up with humans for such a long time, for they are only mortal flesh. In the future, their normal lifespan will be no more than 120 years.”
- Genesis 6:12 God observed all this corruption in the world, for everyone on earth was corrupt.
- Genesis 6:13 So God said to Noah, “I have decided to destroy all living creatures, for they have filled the earth with violence. Yes, I will wipe them all out along with the earth!
See every passage
- Genesis 2:21, 2:23, 2:24, 6:3, 6:12, 6:13, 6:17, 6:19, 7:15, 7:16, 7:21, 8:17, 9:4, 9:11, 9:15, 9:16, 9:17, 17:11, 17:13, 17:14, 17:23, 17:24, 17:25, 29:14, 37:27, 40:19, 41:2, 41:3, 41:4, 41:18, 41:19
- Exodus 4:7, 12:8, 12:46, 16:3, 16:8, 16:12, 21:28, 22:31, 28:42, 29:14, 29:31, 29:32, 29:34, 30:32
- Leviticus 4:11, 6:10, 6:27, 7:15, 7:17, 7:18, 7:19, 7:20, 7:21, 8:17, 8:31, 8:32, 9:11, 11:8, 11:11, 12:3, 13:2, 13:3, 13:4, 13:10, 13:11, 13:13, 13:14, 13:15, 13:16, 13:18, 13:24, 13:38, 13:39, 13:43, 14:9, 15:2, 15:3, 15:7, 15:13, 15:16, 15:19, 16:4, 16:24, 16:26, 16:27, 16:28, 17:11, 17:14, 17:16, 18:6, 19:28, 21:5, 22:6, 25:49, 26:29
- Numbers 8:7, 11:4, 11:13, 11:18, 11:21, 11:33, 12:12, 16:22, 18:15, 18:18, 19:5, 19:7, 19:8, 27:16
- Deuteronomy 5:26, 12:15, 12:20, 12:23, 12:27, 14:8, 16:4, 28:53, 28:55, 32:42
- Judges 6:19, 6:20, 6:21, 8:7, 9:2
- 1 Samuel 2:13, 2:15, 17:44
- 2 Samuel 5:1, 19:12, 19:13
- 1 Kings 17:6, 19:21, 21:27
- 2 Kings 4:34, 5:10, 5:14, 6:30, 9:36
- 1 Chronicles 11:1
- 2 Chronicles 32:8
- Nehemiah 5:5
- Job 2:5, 4:15, 6:12, 7:5, 10:4, 10:11, 12:10, 13:14, 14:22, 19:20, 19:22, 19:26, 21:6, 31:31, 33:21, 33:25, 34:15, 41:23
- Psalms 16:9, 27:2, 38:3, 38:7, 50:13, 56:4, 63:1, 65:2, 78:39, 79:2, 84:2, 102:5, 109:24, 119:120, 136:25, 145:21
- Proverbs 4:22, 5:11, 14:30, 23:20
- Ecclesiastes 2:3, 4:5, 5:6, 11:10, 12:12
- Isaiah 9:20, 10:18, 17:4, 22:13, 31:3, 40:5, 40:6, 44:16, 44:19, 49:26, 58:7, 65:4, 66:16, 66:17, 66:23, 66:24
- Jeremiah 7:21, 11:15, 12:12, 17:5, 19:9, 25:31, 32:27, 45:5
- Lamentations 3:4
- Ezekiel 4:14, 10:12, 11:3, 11:7, 11:11, 11:19, 16:26, 20:48, 21:4, 21:5, 23:20, 24:10, 32:5, 36:26, 37:6, 37:8, 39:17, 39:18, 40:43, 44:7, 44:9
- Daniel 1:15, 10:3
- Hosea 8:13
- Joel 2:28
- Micah 3:3
- Haggai 2:12
- Zechariah 2:13, 11:9, 11:16, 14:12
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).