Strong's Hebrew · H8163

H8163 sâʻîyr

שָׂעִיר

saw-eer'

hairy

sâʻîyr appears 59 times in Scripture, including Genesis 27:11 and Leviticus 4:23. In the Doxa app, open any verse that uses it, keep your notes on it, and ask Doxa Engage how it connects to what God has said to you.

Definition

shaggy; as noun, a he-goat; by analogy, a faun

In the King James Version

devil, goat, hairy, kid, rough, satyr.

Derivation

or שָׂעִר; from H8175 (שָׂעַר);

Appears 59 times in Scripture

Genesis 27:11

“Jacob answered his mother Rebekah, “Look, my brother Esau is a hairy man, but I am smooth-skinned.”

Leviticus 4:23

“When he becomes aware of the sin he has committed, he must bring an unblemished male goat as his offering.”

Leviticus 4:24

“He is to lay his hand on the head of the goat and slaughter it at the place where the burnt offering is slaughtered before the LORD. It is a sin offering.”

Numbers 7:87

“All the livestock for the burnt offering totaled twelve bulls, twelve rams, and twelve male lambs a year old—together with their grain offerings—and twelve male goats for the sin offering.”

Genesis 27:23

“Isaac did not recognize him, because his hands were hairy like those of his brother Esau; so he blessed him.”

Genesis 37:31

“Then they took Joseph’s robe, slaughtered a young goat, and dipped the robe in its blood.”

Leviticus 9:3

“Then speak to the Israelites and say, ‘Take a male goat for a sin offering, a calf and a lamb—both a year old and without blemish—for a burnt offering,”

Leviticus 10:16

“Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, and asked,”

Numbers 7:52

“one male goat for a sin offering;”

Leviticus 9:15

“Aaron then presented the people’s offering. He took the male goat for the people’s sin offering, slaughtered it, and offered it for sin like the first one.”

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Word study: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890, public domain), with glosses and editions from STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org); Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible Project (CC BY 4.0); Strong's Greek Dictionary in XML by Ulrik Sandborg-Petersen (CC0). Sources and changes Verse mappings: Berean Standard Bible interlinear tables (public domain).

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