Lexical Summary zakar: male Original Word: זָכָרTransliteration: zakar Phonetic Spelling: (zaw-kawr') Part of Speech: noun masculine; Adjective Short Definition: male Meaning: remembered, a male Strong's Concordance him, male, manchild, From zakar; properly, remembered, i.e. A male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex) -- X him, male, man(child, -kind). see HEBREW zakar Brown-Driver-Briggs H2145. zakar זָכָר noun masculine & adjective male (Assyrian zikaru, zikru, COTGloss LyonManual, Gloss; Arabic ; Aramaic דִּכְרָא, ; Sabean רם[כ]דֿ DHMZMG 1876, 675; relation to above √ obscure; male as mentioned, talked of, Lane969f.; from assumed original sense be sharp (traces of this in Arabic: see Lane), BöProb 207 Fl in ChWBi. 422, compare Arabic male organ; SchwZAW 1891, 176 ff. **(against Schwally's view see JPeritzWoman in the Ancient Hebrew Cult, JBL xvii {1898}, 111 ff.) from זָכַר = call upon in worship; hence male as competent to worship) — always absolute ׳ז Genesis 1:27 +; plural (ה)זְכָרִים Exodus 13:12 +; see also [זָכוּר]: — I. substantive male, offspring of men and animals Exodus 13:12, 15 (plural, both J E); opposed to נְקֵבָה Deuteronomy 4:16; specifically 1 of men: a. in phrase יָָֽדְעָה לא אשׁר זָכָר לְמִשְׁכַב אישׁ Judges 21:12 (BuRS 153 DrIntr. 151), compare 21:11, Numbers 31:17-18, 35 (all 3 P); זָכָר צַלְמֵי Ezekiel 16:17. b. alone = man Jeremiah 30:6 (זָכָ֑ר אִםיֹֿלֵד רְאוּ "" גֶּבֶר); usually collective, men, male persons (of all ages) Judges 21:11; 1 Kings 11:15-16, Genesis 34:25; Leviticus 6:11; 6:22; 7:6; Numbers 1:2, 20, 22; 3:28, 34, 39; 18:10; 26:62; 31:7, 17 (all P); plural (ה)זכרים2 Chronicles 31:16; Ezra 8:3-4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, so also Joshua 5:4 ("" כלֿ העם, and המלחמה כלאֿנשׁי), 17:2 (gloss? compare DrIntr. 104); especially of individual, in connection with circumcision Genesis 17:10, 12, 14, 23; 34:15, 22, 24; Exodus 12:48 (all P); of male child Leviticus 12:2 (P) Isaiah 66:7; opposed to נְקֵבָה Genesis 1:27; 5:2; Leviticus 12:7 (child) 15:33; 27:3, 5, 6, 7; Numbers 5:3 (all P; compare Sabean דֿ(כ)רם פאו אנתֿים DHMl.c.); opposed to אִשָּׁה in command ag. sodomy Leviticus 18:22; 20:13 (both H). 2 of animals, especially for sacrifice Exodus 34:19 (J E; read הַזָּכָר for תִּזָּכָר ᵑ0); 12:5; Leviticus 1:3, 10; 4:23 (all P) 22:19 (H), Malachi 1:14; opposed to נְקֵבָה Genesis 6:19; 7:3, 9, 16; Leviticus 3:1, 6 (all P). II. adjective singular male (only human beings) ז בֵּן ׳יֻלַּדלְֿךָ Jeremiah 20:15; ז ׳כָּלבְּֿכֹר Numbers 3:40, 43 (both P). |
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