male
za.khar identifies humans, animals, and images as belonging to the male sex, often in contrast with female.
The term designates the male sex across human, animal, and image contexts. It marks male and female as a paired distinction, specifies male animals in sacrificial and firstborn instructions, and can identify groups of males in enrollments.
Senses in use
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Designation of the male sex · dominant
The term identifies a person or living creature as male, often within an explicit male-and-female pairing: in Genesis 1:27 the APB renders the creation clause "male and female he created them," and in Genesis 6:19 it renders the animals brought into the ark as "male and female." It also specifies male animals for offerings in Exodus 12:5 and Leviticus 1:3, denotes counted groups in Ezra 8:3, and describes "male images" in Ezekiel 16:17.
In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB commonly presents the term with "male" or "males," including the paired expression "male and female" in Genesis 6:19. These renderings confirm the clauses' sex distinction rather than establish a separate lexical sense.