שָׁאַר shâʼar — properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant
Translated in the KJV as leave, left, let, remain, remnant, reserve, the rest.
a primitive root; properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant.
shâʼar in each stem
Niph'al
Participle (active) 41Perfect (qatal) 36Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Wayyiqtol 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Participle (passive) 3
And every living substance was destroyed which was upon the face of the ground, both man, and cattle, and the creeping things, and the fowl of the heaven; and they were destroyed from the earth: and Noah only remained alive, and they that were with him in the ark.
And the vale of Siddim was full of slimepits; and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there; and they that remained fled to the mountain.
And Jacob said, O God of my father Abraham, and God of my father Isaac, the Lord which saidst unto me, Return unto thy country, and to thy kindred, and I will deal well with thee:
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 25Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Cohortative 1Infinitive construct 1
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand over the land of Egypt for the locusts, that they may come up upon the land of Egypt, and eat every herb of the land, even all that the hail hath left.
They shall leave none of it unto the morning, nor break any bone of it: according to all the ordinances of the passover they shall keep it.
So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land.
Qal (Pa'al)
Perfect (qatal) 1
And Samuel said unto Jesse, Are here all thy children? And he said, There remaineth yet the youngest, and, behold, he keepeth the sheep. And Samuel said unto Jesse, Send and fetch him: for we will not sit down till he come hither.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›
