שָׁאַרshâʼar

remain, be left over, synonym יָתַר

Pronunciation: shaw-ar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H7604

Meanings

Qal: remains. (1 Samuel 16:11)

Niph`al

1. be left over (Exodus 8:27; Exodus 10:19; Exodus 14:28)

2. be left behind (Exodus 10:26; Numbers 11:26; Genesis 42:38)

Hiph`il

1. leave over, spare (Exodus 10:12; 2 Kings 25:22; Jeremiah 49:9)

2. leave or keep over (Numbers 9:12)

3. shall have, left (Amos 5:3)

4. leave (Joel 2:14; Malachi 2:15)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 133 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 7:23 God wiped out every living thing on the earth—people, livestock, small animals that scurry along the ground, and the birds of the sky. All were destroyed. The only people who survived were Noah and those with him in the boat.
  • Genesis 14:10 As it happened, the valley of the Dead Sea was filled with tar pits. And as the army of the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, some fell into the tar pits, while the rest escaped into the mountains.
  • Genesis 32:8 He thought, “If Esau meets one group and attacks it, perhaps the other group can escape.”
  • Genesis 42:38 But Jacob replied, “My son will not go down with you. His brother Joseph is dead, and he is all I have left. If anything should happen to him on your journey, you would send this grieving, white-haired man to his grave.”
  • Genesis 47:18 But that year ended, and the next year they came again and said, “We cannot hide the truth from you, my lord. Our money is gone, and all our livestock and cattle are yours. We have nothing left to give but our bodies and our land.
  • Exodus 8:9 “You set the time!” Moses replied. “Tell me when you want me to pray for you, your officials, and your people. Then you and your houses will be rid of the frogs. They will remain only in the Nile River.”
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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).