sa.a.rah denotes hair, used of a single hair in protection and precision sayings and of hairs in bodily or overwhelming imagery.

The attested use most often concerns an individual hair in statements that no hair will fall to the ground, expressing protection, or as the tiny target of exceptional accuracy. Elsewhere the word occurs of the hair of flesh bristling and in plural construct forms within verses whose translation does not make its specific contribution explicit.

1. A single hair in protection or precise aim · dominant

   The singular construct form occurs in three assurances that no hair of a person will fall to the ground: in 1 Kings 1:52 the APB renders this promise concerning a man who proves to be valiant; in 1 Samuel 14:45 it concerns Jonathan; and in 2 Samuel 14:11 it concerns the woman's son. In Judges 20:16, the singular absolute form appears in the statement that each chosen man could sling a stone at a hair and not miss.

   1 Kings 1:521 Samuel 14:452 Samuel 14:11Judges 20:16
2. Hair reacting on the body · occasional

   In Job 4:15, the feminine singular construct form is linked with “the hair of my flesh” as a spirit passes before the speaker's face; the APB renders the result as “bristled.”

   Job 4:15
3. Plural hairs in clauses not reflected by the translation · occasional

   Psalm 40:13 and Psalm 69:5 contain feminine plural construct forms, but the supplied APB renderings do not display an identifiable hair expression in either verse. Their specific contribution cannot be isolated from the translation.

   Psalm 40:13Psalm 69:5

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “hair” in the protection sayings, the accuracy statement, and Job 4:15, where it renders the hair of flesh as having “bristled.” In Psalm 40:13 and Psalm 69:5, the supplied translation does not visibly reflect the plural forms.