Lexicon
שָׂעִר
sa.ir
H8163A
H:A Hebrew

hairy

2
Occurrences
1
Books
Hebrew
Language

sa.ir describes the bodily hairiness contrasted with Jacob's smoothness and associated with Esau's hands.

The term describes visible bodily hairiness: it characterizes Esau in contrast to Jacob's smoothness and describes hands made to resemble Esau's.

Senses in use

  1. Bodily hairiness in personal identification · dominant

    In Genesis 27:11, the masculine singular form characterizes Esau in Jacob's contrast between his brother and himself; the APB renders the contrast as “Esau my brother is a hairy man, and I am a smooth man.” In Genesis 27:23, the feminine plural form describes the hands that led to mistaken identification; the APB renders them as “like the hands of Esau his brother, hairy.”

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB uses “hairy” in both verses, once for Esau as a man and once for hands resembling his. These renderings confirm the clause-level portrayal rather than isolate each form mechanically.

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