ta.ar denotes a razor used in shaving or cutting and, in sword scenes, a sheath.

The term most often occurs for a cutting implement used on hair or for cutting a written scroll, with one figurative tongue context; it also occurs in scenes involving a sword and its sheath, while several sword-oracle contexts leave its precise contribution less explicit in the translation.

1. Razor or cutting implement · dominant

   The absolute form occurs where a razor is not to pass over a head in Numbers 6:5 and is passed over all flesh in Numbers 8:7. In Ezekiel 5:1 the construct form stands in the instruction to use a sharp sword described by the APB as “a barber's razor” on head and beard, and in Jeremiah 36:23 the APB describes cutting the scroll with “the scribe's razor.” Psalm 52:4 places the form in a clause about a deceitful tongue, though the APB does not isolate an English rendering for it.

   Numbers 6:5Numbers 8:7Ezekiel 5:1Isaiah 7:20Jeremiah 36:23Psalm 52:4
2. Sheath in sword scenes · common

   In 1 Samuel 17:51 the construct form occurs as David draws the Philistine's sword from its sheath; 2 Samuel 20:8 likewise places it with a sword fastened at Joab's waist in its sheath. Ezekiel 21:8, Ezekiel 21:9, Ezekiel 21:10, and Jeremiah 47:6 are also sword-focused clauses, but the APB's loose wording does not clearly isolate the term's contribution in each of those verses.

   1 Samuel 17:512 Samuel 20:8Ezekiel 21:8Ezekiel 21:9Ezekiel 21:10Jeremiah 47:6

In the Anselm Project Bible: The APB explicitly uses “razor” in shaving and cutting contexts and “sheath” in the two narrative sword scenes. In the Ezekiel sword passages and Psalm 52:4, its wording does not consistently isolate a rendering for the term.