שָׁאַר shaar

Hebrew word for “to remain” · Strong’s H7604 · used 133 times in 123 verses

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Meaning

1) to remain, be left over, be left behind;

How it is translated

Glosses given for shaar in context, with how often each is used:

• left 25
• remained 13
• which remains 6
• had left 6
• will be left 6
• will leave 6
• which remain 6
• who remained 6
• will remain 5
• those who remain 5
• left behind 5
• remains 4

Where it is used

Also in 15 more books.

Chapters where it is used most

Joshua 10 (6), Exodus 10 (4), 2 Kings 10 (4), Exodus 8 (3), Deuteronomy 28 (3), Joshua 11 (3), Joshua 13 (3), Joshua 23 (3), 2 Kings 25 (3), Leviticus 26 (2)

Forms

• השׁאיר 22
• הנשׁארים 21
• נשׁאר 20
• נשׁארו 9
• הנשׁאר 7
• והנשׁארים 5
• הנשׁארת 3
• ישׁאירו 3
• נשׁארה 3
• ונשׁאר 3

Words used with it

Words that share verses with shaar more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• נָכָה nakhah “to smite” 23
• שָׂרִיד sarid “survivor” 12
• עַד ad “till” 23
• עִיר ir “city” 17
• פְּלֵיטָה peletah “survivor” 8
• טַבָּח tabbach “guard” 8
• נָפַל naphal “to fall” 13
• מִן־ min “from” 17
• יְהוּדָה yehudah “Judah” 15
• בִּלְתִּי bilti “lest” 9
• נְבוּזַרְאֲדָן nevuzaradan “Nebuzaradan” 6
• יֶתֶר yeter “remainder” 8

Key verses

The verses using shaar that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 26:36 — And upon them that are left alive of you I will send a faintness into their hearts in the lands of their enemies; and the sound of a shaken leaf shall chase…
• Leviticus 26:39 — And they that are left of you shall pine away in their iniquity in your enemies’ lands; and also in the iniquities of their fathers shall they pine away with…
• Joshua 23:12 — Else if ye do in any wise go back, and cleave unto the remnant of these nations, even these that remain among you, and shall make marriages with them, and go…
• Ezra 9:8 — And now for a little space grace hath been shewed from the LORD our God, to leave us a remnant to escape, and to give us a nail in his holy place, that our God…
• Nehemiah 1:3 — And they said unto me, The remnant that are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach: the wall of Jerusalem also is…
• Isaiah 11:11 — And it shall come to pass in that day, that the Lord shall set his hand again the second time to recover the remnant of his people, which shall be left, from…
• Jeremiah 21:7 — And afterward, saith the LORD, I will deliver Zedekiah king of Judah, and his servants, and the people, and such as are left in this city from the pestilence,…
• Jeremiah 24:8 — And as the evil figs, which cannot be eaten, they are so evil; surely thus saith the LORD, So will I give Zedekiah the king of Judah, and his princes, and the…
• Jeremiah 38:4 — Therefore the princes said unto the king, We beseech thee, let this man be put to death: for thus he weakeneth the hands of the men of war that remain in this…
• Jeremiah 42:2 — And said unto Jeremiah the prophet, Let, we beseech thee, our supplication be accepted before thee, and pray for us unto the LORD thy God, even for all this…
• Jeremiah 50:20 — In those days, and in that time, saith the LORD, the iniquity of Israel shall be sought for, and there shall be none; and the sins of Judah, and they shall not…
• Joel 2:14 — Who knoweth if he will return and repent, and leave a blessing behind him; even a meat offering and a drink offering unto the LORD your God?

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.