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title: שְׁאָר — rest · The Tanakh dictionary
description: שְׁאָר (7605), a word of Biblical Hebrew, used 26 times: rest. BDB 1906: n.m. rest, residue, remnant. With 2 verses in Hebrew, word for word and JPS 1917.
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# שְׁאָר

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«שְׁאָר» in the Tanakh dictionary: **rest** — how often it is used, MACULA's glosses, its meanings in the printed dictionaries and why they were chosen, and 2 verses in layers.

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**Used:** 26 times · **Key:** 7605 · **BDB:** שְׁאָר

### Glosses

the.remnant (9); the.rest (9); a.remnant (4)

### Meaning (OSHB)

rest [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7605/#m1)

### Meaning (BDB 1906)

n.m. rest, residue, remnant [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7605/#m2)

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**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 16:14 rest, residue, remnant (= יֶתֶר, especially Is. and late; on form Köii. 1, 141 NöBeitr. z. Sem. W. 30);—שׁ׳ abs. Is 14:22 +, cstr. Is 10:19 +;—rest, residue, remainder, of trees Is 10:19, silver 2 Ch 24:14, city 1 Ch 11:8, territory Est 9:12; שׁ׳ דִּבְרֵי שְׁלֹמהֹ 2 Ch 9:29 (יֶתֶר in ‖ 1 K 11:41, and usually in like phrase, v. p. 451 f.); of men 1 Ch 16:41; Ezr 3:8; 4:3, 7; Ne 10:29; 11:1, 20; Est 9:16; of Moab Is 16:14; Aram 17:3 (= last remnant), archers of Kedar 21:17; = posterity, שֵׁם וּשׁ׳ וְנִין וָנֶכֶד Is 14:22 (of Babylon); שׁ׳ הַבַּעַל Zp 1:4, i.e. Baal, to the last remnant, vestige (so We al.; 𝔊 שֵׁם, cf. Schwally Now GASm); term. techn. = purified remnant of Israel (GieBeiträge 37 f.) Is 10:20 (‖ פְּלֵיטָה), v 21(×2), 22; 11:11, 16; 28:5.—וּשׁ׳ רוּחַ לוֹ Mal 2:15 is obscure; read וַיַּשְׁאֵר ר׳ לָנוּ We Now, cf. GASm.

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Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (6 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every English meaning of «שְׁאָר» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7605/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.

### In the verses

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[Isaiah 10:21](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.21/)

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שְׁאָ֥ר יָשׁ֖וּב שְׁאָ֣ר יַעֲקֹ֑ב אֶל־אֵ֖ל גִּבּֽוֹר׃

*Word for word:* a.remnant it.will.return the.remnant of.Jacob to \[the\].God mighty

*JPS 1917:* A remnant shall return, even the remnant of Jacob, unto God the Mighty.

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[Isaiah 10:19](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.10.19/)

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וּשְׁאָ֥ר עֵ֛ץ יַעְר֖וֹ מִסְפָּ֣ר יִֽהְי֑וּ וְנַ֖עַר יִכְתְּבֵֽם׃פ

*Word for word:* and the.remnant of.the.tree\[s\] his.forest his a.number they.will.be and a.child he will.record.them

*JPS 1917:* And the remnant of the trees of his forest shall be few, that a child may write them down.

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