Lexicon
שְׁאֵרִית
she.e.rit
H7611
H:N-F Hebrew

remnant

66
Occurrences
16
Books
Hebrew
Language

she.e.rit is the people or portion left remaining, often those preserved after loss, exile, or threat.

The word most often identifies a people regarded as those left or remaining, including groups reduced by danger, exile, or scattering and groups addressed as the people still present. In a smaller set of contexts, it marks what remains of an object or a listed body of people.

Senses in use

  1. People left or remaining · dominant

    The singular noun identifies a people viewed as those still left: in Jeremiah 42:2 the APB renders the group as “all this remnant” and says that they “remain few from many.” In Jeremiah 23:3, those gathered from lands of banishment are called the remnant of the flock, while Jeremiah 41:10 describes the people remaining at Mizpah; Isaiah 37:32 and 2 Chronicles 36:20 likewise place the group in settings of survival or removal.

  2. What remains of a thing or named body · occasional

    In Isaiah 44:17, the construct form occurs in the clause that the APB renders, “The rest of it he makes into a god,” identifying a remaining portion of the object. In Jeremiah 39:3, the APB renders the clause as “all the rest of the rulers of the king of Babylon,” and Amos 9:12 speaks of the remnant of Edom alongside all the nations.

In the Anselm Project Bible: Across these verses, the APB variously uses “remnant,” “survivors,” “the rest,” and “remaining.” Because the APB is a whole-verse translation, those variations show the verse contexts rather than separate fixed English equivalents.

Passages featuring this word

Across Scripture