שָׂעַרsâʻar

שָׂעַר: bristle, with horror

Pronunciation: saw-ar' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H8175

Meanings

שָׂעַר: sweep or whirl away

Qal: he, shall sweep it away (Psalms 58:10)

Niph`al: it is tempestuous (Psalms 50:3)

Pi`el: and it, shall whirl him away (Job 27:21)

Hitph.: shall storm against him (Daniel 11:40)

שָׂעַר: perhaps be acquainted with

Qal: with whom, had (Deuteronomy 32:17)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 8 times in the Bible.

  • Deuteronomy 32:17 They offered sacrifices to demons, which are not God, to gods they had not known before, to new gods only recently arrived, to gods their ancestors had never feared.
  • Job 27:21 The east wind carries them away, and they are gone. It sweeps them away.
  • Psalms 50:3 Our God approaches, and he is not silent. Fire devours everything in his way, and a great storm rages around him.
  • Psalms 58:9 God will sweep them away, both young and old, faster than a pot heats over burning thorns.
  • Jeremiah 2:12 The heavens are shocked at such a thing and shrink back in horror and dismay,” says the Lord.
  • Ezekiel 27:35 All who live along the coastlands are appalled at your terrible fate. Their kings are filled with horror and look on with twisted faces.
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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).