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שָׁאַר shâʼar — properly, to swell up, i.e. be (causatively, make) redundant

pronounced shaw-ar' · Strong's H7604 · 133 occurrences in the Hebrew Bible · 3 stems: Niph'al, Hiph'il, Qal (Pa'al)

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 94×

Simple · passive — the plain action; the subject has it done to them

Participle (active) 41Perfect (qatal) 36Imperfect (yiqtol) 6Wayyiqtol 4Sequential perfect (weqatal) 4Participle (passive) 3

וַיִשָּׁ֧אֶר Gen 7:23 Wayyiqtol, 3rd person masculine singular

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. (KJV)

וְהַנִּשְׁאָרִ֖ים Gen 14:10 Participle (active), masculine plural

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. (KJV)

הַנִּשְׁאָ֖ר Gen 32:9 Participle (active), masculine singular

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: (KJV)

Hiph'il 38×

Causative · active — causing someone or something to do the action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 25Imperfect (yiqtol) 9Sequential perfect (weqatal) 2Cohortative 1Infinitive construct 1

הִשְׁאִ֖יר Exod 10:12 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

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. (KJV)

יַשְׁאִ֤ירוּ Num 9:12 Imperfect (yiqtol), 3rd person masculine plural

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. (KJV)

הִשְׁאִֽיר Num 21:35 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

So they smote him, and his sons, and all his people, until there was none left him alive: and they possessed his land. (KJV)

Qal (Pa'al)

Simple · active — the plain action; the subject does it

Perfect (qatal) 1

שָׁאַ֣ר 1Sam 16:11 Perfect (qatal), 3rd person masculine singular

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. (KJV)

What the stems mean

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Morphology from OpenScriptures MorphHB (CC BY 4.0); definitions from Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (public domain); text from the Westminster Leningrad Codex.

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