Strong's Hebrew · H2145

זָכָר

zâkâr · zaw-kawr'

[idiom] him, male, man(child, -kind).

Definition

properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex)

Derivation

from H2142 (זָכַר);

Appears 82 times in Scripture

Genesis 17:10

This is My covenant with you and your descendants after you, which you are to keep: Every male among you must be circumcised.

Genesis 6:19

And you are to bring two of every living creature into the ark—male and female—to keep them alive with you.

Genesis 7:3

and seven pairs of every kind of bird of the air, male and female, to preserve their offspring on the face of all the earth.

Genesis 5:2

Male and female He created them, and He blessed them. And in the day they were created, He called them “man.”

Genesis 17:23

On that very day Abraham took his son Ishmael and all those born in his household or purchased with his money—every male among the members of Abraham’s household—and he circumcised them, just as God had told him.

Genesis 17:14

But if any male is not circumcised, he will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”

Genesis 17:12

Generation after generation, every male must be circumcised when he is eight days old, including those born in your household and those purchased from a foreigner—even those who are not your offspring.

Genesis 1:27

So God created man in His own image; in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them.

Genesis 7:16

And they entered, the male and female of every living thing, as God had commanded Noah. Then the LORD shut him in.

Genesis 7:9

came to Noah to enter the ark, two by two, male and female, as God had commanded Noah.

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Lexicon: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), digital edition by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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