Sair שָׂעִיר

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Sair
שָׂעִיר
Transliterationsair
Strong's numberH8163 (H8163B, H8163C, H8163A)
LanguageHebrew
Part of speechmasculine noun
Glosshe-goat
Occurrences59 in 57 verses
Most frequent inNumbers (27)

Sair (Hebrew שָׂעִיר, Strong's H8163) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “he-goat”. It occurs 59 times in 57 verses of the Old Testament.

Definition

H8163B: he-goat

1) he-goat, buck
1a) as sacrificial animal

H8163C: satyr

satyr, may refer to a demon possessed goat like the swine of Gadara (Mt 8:30-32)

H8163A: hairy

adj
hairy

From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.

Translated as

KJVkid (26), goat (21), goats (3), hairy (2), kids (2), devils (2), satyrs (1), satyr (1), rough (1)
BSBmale goat (32), goat (10), goats (3), male goats (2), goat demons (2), is a hairy (1), hairy (1), young goat (1), some of the goat's (1), goat's (1), wild goats (1), one wild goat (1), and 2 other renderings

Verses

Every verse with Sair, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).

Genesis

Leviticus

Numbers

2 Chronicles

Isaiah

Ezekiel

Daniel

Notes

  1. Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
  2. English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).
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