Lexical Summary sheerith: rest, residue, remnant, remainder Original Word: שְׁאֵרִיתTransliteration: sheerith Phonetic Spelling: (sheh-ay-reeth') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: rest, residue, remnant, remainder Meaning: rest, residue, remnant, remainder Strong's Concordance remainder or residualFrom sha'ar; a remainder or residual (surviving, final) portion -- that had escaped, be left, posterity, remain(-der), remnant, residue, rest. see HEBREW sha'ar Brown-Driver-Briggs H7611. sheerith שְׁאֵרִית noun feminine rest, residue, remnant, remainder ( = שָׁאָר); — ׳שׁ absolute 2 Samuel 14:7 +, construct Ezekiel 36:3 +, שֵׁרִית (Ges§ 23f) 1 Chronicles 12:39 (van d. H. v.12:38); suffix שְׁאֵרִיתֵךְ Isaiah 14:30; Ezekiel 5:10, תוֺ- Isaiah 44:17, תָם- Jeremiah 15:9; — 1 rest, what is left, of wood Isaiah 44:17, land 15:9 ("" מְּלֵיטָה), Jeremiah 47:4-5, Ezekiel 25:16; ׳שׁ חֵמֹת Psalm 76: difficult (Gr [compare Che] proposes חֲמָת Hamath, Du אֻמֹּת tribes); rest of princes Jeremiah 39:3, of nations ( = the other nations, Toy) Ezekiel 36:3-4, 5; of Israel 1 Chronicles 12:39 (van d. H. v.12:38), 2 Chronicles 34:9; Nehemiah 7:71 (van d. H. 7:72); = last remnant of people, Philistines Amos 1:8 (compare We), Isaiah 14:30, Edom Amos 9:12, Anathoth Jeremiah 11:23, Ashdod 25:20, Babylon 50:26, Amalek 1 Chronicles 4:43(+ הַמְּלֵיטָה), Israel 2 Kings 21:14; Jeremiah 6:9; 15:9; remnant left after catastrophe Amos 5:15; Jeremiah 8:3; 24:8; 40:11, 15; 41:10, 16; 42:2, 15, 19; 43:5; 44:12, 14, 28; Ezekiel 5:10; 9:8; 11:13; Haggai 1:12, 14; 2:2, even לִשׁ אֶתהַֿצֹּלֵעָה ׳וְשַׂמְתִּי Micah 4:7 (as promise, "" עָצוּם compare GieBeiträge, 42f.); = survivors Jeremiah 44:7, ׳הַשּׁ מִןהַֿחֶרֶב2 Chronicles 36:20; = faithful remnant of Israel or Judah (technical term of prophets, compare שְׁאָר near the end), 2 Kings 19:4=Isaiah 37:4; 2 Kings 19:31 ("" מְּלֵיטָה) = Isaiah 37:32 ("" id.), Micah 2:12; 5:6; 5:7; 7:18; Ezra 9:14 ("" id.), Isaiah 46:3; Jeremiah 23:3; 31:7; Zephaniah 2:7, 9 ("" יֶתֶר), 3:13; Zechariah 8:6, 11, 12. 2 remainder = descendants ( = שְׁאָר Isaiah 14:22): Genesis 45:7, וּשׁ ׳שֵׁם 2 Samuel 14:7. II. שׁאר (√ of following; compare Assyrian šêru, Punic שאר, flesh, Arabic blood-revenge, so Sabean תֿאר, SabDenkmNo. 5, 1. 7; perhaps originally blood (compare Jeremiah 51:35), NöZMG xi (1886), 723 and IdM 101, who compare Mandean תירתא = conscience, mind, etc., perhaps properly midriff, compare Hoffmbelow). |