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Strong's #1320 - בָּשָׂר
- Brown-Driver-Briggs
- Strong
- flesh
- of the body
- of humans
- of animals
- the body itself
- male organ of generation (euphemism)
- kindred, blood-relations
- flesh as frail or erring (man against God)
- all living things
- animals
- mankind
- of the body
- Book
- Word
did not use
this Strong's Number
2025) rxb (בסר BSR) AC: Report CO: Flesh AB: Good: When good news is brought a feast with meat is prepared.
V) rxb (בסר BSR) - Report: When good news is brought a feast with meat is prepared. [df: rVb] KJV (24): (vf: Hitpael, Piel) tidings, show forth, publish, messenger, preached - Strongs: H1319 (בָּשַׂר)
Nf ) rxb (בסר BSR) - Flesh: The skin and muscle or the whole of the person. Also meat as food. [Hebrew and Aramaic] [df: rVb] KJV (273): flesh, body - Strongs: H1154 (בֶּסֶר), H1320 (בָּשָׂר), H1321 (בְּשַׂר)
cf1 ) erfxb (בסורה BSWRH) - Good news: When good news is brought a feast with meat is prepared. [df: hrwVb] KJV (6): tidings - Strongs: H1309 (בְּשׂוֹרָה)
gm ) rxfb (בוסר BWSR) - Sour Grape: [Unknown connection to root;] [df: rVb] KJV (4): unripe grapes, sour grapes - Strongs: H1155 (בֹּסֶר)
nm ) rxba (אבסר ABSR) - Meat: A choice piece of meat. [df: rpSa] KJV (2): piece - Strongs: H829 (אֶשְׁפָּר)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
a. of animals Genesis 41:2-19 Exodus 21:28; Exodus 22:30; Numbers 12:12 (E) Numbers 11:4-33 (JE) Genesis 9:4 + (P 30t.) Deuteronomy 12:15 + (D 9t.) Judges 6:19-21 1 Samuel 2:13,15; 1 Kings 17:6; 1 Kings 19:21; Job 31:31; Job 41:15; Psalm 50:13; Proverbs 23:20; Isaiah 22:13; Isaiah 44:16,19; Isaiah 65:4; Isaiah 66:17; Jeremiah 7:21; Jeremiah 11:15; Ezekiel 4:14 6t. Daniel 10:3; Hosea 8:13; Micah 3:3; Haggai 2:12; Zechariah 11:9,16.
b. of men Genesis 40:19 (E) Genesis 2:21; Exodus 4:7 (J) Leviticus 12:3; Leviticus 13:2 16t. Leviticus 26:29 (P) Deuteronomy 28:53,55; Deuteronomy 32:42; Judges 8:7; 1 Samuel 17:44; 1 Kings 4:34; 1 Kings 5:10; 1 Kings 5:14; 1 Kings 6:30; 1 Kings 9:36; Job 2:5; Job 4:15; Job 6:12; Job 7:5; Job 10:11; Job 13:14; Job 19:20,22; Job 21:6; Job 33:21,25; Psalm 27:2; Psalm 38:4; Psalm 38:8; Psalm 79:2; Psalm 102:6; Psalm 109:24; Proverbs 4:22; Proverbs 5:11; Isaiah 9:19; Isaiah 17:4; Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 3:4; Ezekiel 32:5; Ezekiel 37:6,8; Ezekiel 39:17,18; Daniel 1:15; Zechariah 14:12. The flesh of the body is contrasted with stone Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26.
2 flesh for the body itself (especially in P): על בשׂר אדם לא ייסך upon the body of man it shall not be poured Exodus 30:32 (P); מכנסי בד ילבשׁ על בשׂרו linen drawers shall he put on his body Leviticus 6:3; Leviticus 16:4 (P); וישׂם שׂקעל בשׂרו 1 Kings 2;:27; ורחץ את בשׂרו and he shall bath his body Leviticus 14:9; Leviticus 15:13,16; Leviticus 16:24,26,28; Leviticus 17:16; Leviticus 22:6; Numbers 19:7,8 (P); שׂרט לנפשׁ לא תתנו בכשׂרכם ye shall not put any cutting for any one in your body Leviticus 19:28 compare Leviticus 21:5 (P); והעבירו תער על כל בשׂרם and they shall pass a razor over all their body Numbers 8:7 (P). Ecclesiastes uses בשׂר only in this sense Ecclesiastes 2:3; Ecclesiastes 4:5; Ecclesiastes 5:5; Ecclesiastes 11:10; Ecclesiastes 12:12; elsewhere this usage only in poetry; the body antithetical to נפשׁ Job 14:22; Isaiah 10:18; Psalm 63:2; לב Psalm 16:9; Psalm 84:3; Proverbs 14:30 (only here emphatic plural = entire body Bö§ 695, Leiblichkeit De); מִבְּשָׂרִי apart from my body, in disembodied state Job 19:26; סמר מפחדך בשׂרי my body trembleth for fear of thee Psalm 119:120.
3 make organ of Generation (euphemism): בְּשַׂר עָרְלַתְכֶם Genesis 17:11,14,23,24,25 (P); בשׂר ערוה Exodus 28:42 (P), but בשׂר Genesis 17:14; Leviticus 15:2-19 (P) Ezekiel 16:26; Ezekiel 23:20; Ezekiel 44:7,9.
4 flesh for kindred, blood-relations: עצם מעצמי ובשׂר מבשׂרי bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh Genesis 2:23 (J); והיו לבשׂר אחד and they shall become one flesh Genesis 2:24 (J); עצמי ובשׂרי Genesis 29:14 (J) Judges 9:2; 2 Samuel 5:1; 2 Samuel 19:13; 2 Samuel 19:14; 1 Chronicles 11:1; בשׂר with suffix in same sense Genesis 37:27 (J) Nehemiah 5:5; Isaiah 58:7, for which שְׁאֵר בשׂרו near of kin, man or woman Leviticus 18:6; Leviticus 25:49 (both H; Leviticus 25:49 "" מִשְׁמָּחָה, compare RS k149).
5 man over against God as frail or erring Genesis 6:3 (J) Psalm 56:5; Psalm 78:39; eyes of flesh Job 10:4; arm of flesh 2 Chronicles 32:8; Jeremiah 17:5; horses are flesh not spirit Isaiah 31:3
6 the phrase׃כָּלבָּֿשָׂר
a. all living beings Genesis 6:17,19; Genesis 7:21; Genesis 9:11,15,16,17; Leviticus 17:14; Numbers 18:15 (P) Job 34:15; Psalm 136:25.
b. animals Genesis 7:15,16; Genesis 8:17 (P).
c. mankind Genesis 6:12,18; Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16 (P) Deuteronomy 5:28; Psalm 65:3; Psalm 145:21; Isaiah 40:5,6; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 66:16,23,24; Jeremiah 12:12; Jeremiah 25:31; Jeremiah 32:27; Jeremiah 45:5; Ezekiel 21:4; Ezekiel 21:9; Ezekiel 21:10; Joel 3:1; Zechariah 2:17; compare כל בשׂר אישׁ Job 12:10.
בָּשָׂר once in pl. בְּשָׂרִים Proverbs 14:30 m., flesh. As to its etymology, see the root. (Syr. ܒܣܶܪܳܐ, Ch. בִּסְרָא and בִּשְׂרָא id., Arab. بَشَرُ and بَشَرةَُ denote the exterior skin, and metaph. the human race, a signification which is taken from flesh.) Used
(a) of the flesh of the living body, whether of men or of beasts, Genesis 41:2, 19 Genesis 41:19; Job 33:21, 25 Job 33:25 once apparently for the skin itself (compare Arab.); Psalms 102:6, in describing extreme wasting, דָּבְקָה עַצְמִי לִבְשָׂרִי “my bone cleaveth to my skin.”
(b) used of the flesh of cattle which is eaten, Exodus 16:12; Leviticus 7:19; Numbers 11:4, 13 Numbers 11:13. Job 31:31, in praise of his hospitality, מִי יִתֵּן מִבְּשָׂרוֹ לֹא נִשְׂבַּע “who is there that was not satisfied with his flesh” (i.e. in his feasts)? Flesh is also used
(1) More generally for the whole body; opp. to נֶפֶשׁ Isaiah 10:18; Job 14:22. Proverbs 14:30, חַיֵּי בְשָׂרִים לֵב מַרְפֵּה “the welfare of the body is a tranquil heart;” sometimes with the added notion of weakness and proneness to sin (Matthew 26:41), Ecclesiastes 2:3, 5:5.
(2) of all living creatures. כָּל־בָּשָׂר “all living creatures,” Genesis 6:13, 17, 19 7:15, 16, 21 8:17 specially all men, the whole human race, Genesis 6:12; Psalms 65:3, 145:21 Isaiah 40:5, Isaiah 40:6. Very often used as opposed to God and his power (רוּחַ אֱלֹהִים, הָרִוּחַ), with the notion of weakness and frailty. Genesis 6:3; Job 10:4, הַעֵינֵי בָשָׂר לָךְ “hast thou mortal eyes?” i.e. dull, not-clear-sighted; Isaiah 31:3, “The Egyptians are men, not gods, סוּסֵיהֶם בָּשָׂר וְלֹא רוּחַ their horses are flesh, not endued with divine power;” Psalms 56:5, 78:39 Jeremiah 17:5 compare 2 Corinthians 10:4. In the New Test. similarly σὰρξ καὶ αἷμα, opp. to God and the Holy Spirit, Matthew 16:17; Galatians 1:16.
(3) עַצְמִי וּבְשָׂרִי “my bone and my flesh,” used often of a relative. Genesis 29:14; Judges 9:2; 2 Samuel 5:1, 19:13, 14 2 Samuel 19:14 comp. Genesis 2:23 also simply בְּשָׂרִי Genesis 37:27, כִּי אָחִינוּ בְשָׂרֵנוּ הוּא. Used of any other man, as being our brother, Isaiah 58:7. Comp. שְׁאֵר.
(4) by a euphemism for pudenda viri (compare Gr. σῶμα), more fully בְּשַׂר עֶרְוָה flesh of nakedness (Exodus 28:42). Genesis 17:11, seq.; Leviticus 15:2, Leviticus 15:3, Leviticus 15:7, 19 Leviticus 15:19.