Limitless Word
שְׁאֵרshᵉʼêr/sheh-ayr'/
HebrewH760716 occurrences (KJV)

flesh (as swelling out), as living or forfood; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood

KJV renders it: body, flesh, food, (near) kin(-sman, -swoman), near (nigh) (of kin).

Where it appears

  • Exod 21:10If he takes another wife to himself, he shall not diminish her food, her clothing, and her marital rights.
  • Lev 18:6“‘None of you shall approach anyone who are his close relatives, to uncover their nakedness: I am Yahweh.
  • Lev 18:12“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your father’s sister: she is your father’s near kinswoman.
  • Lev 18:13“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister: for she is your mother’s near kinswoman.
  • Lev 20:19“‘You shall not uncover the nakedness of your mother’s sister, nor of your father’s sister; for he has made his close relative naked. They shall bear their iniquity.
  • Lev 21:2except for his relatives that are near to him: for his mother, for his father, for his son, for his daughter, for his brother,
  • Lev 25:49or his uncle, or his uncle’s son, may redeem him, or any who is a close relative to him of his family may redeem him; or if he has grown rich, he may redeem himself.
  • Num 27:11If his father has no brothers, then you shall give his inheritance to his kinsman who is next to him of his family, and he shall possess it. This shall be a statute and ordinance for the children of Israel, as Yahweh commanded Moses.’”
  • Ps 73:26My flesh and my heart fails, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.
  • Ps 78:20Behold, he struck the rock, so that waters gushed out, and streams overflowed. Can he give bread also? Will he provide meat for his people?”
  • Ps 78:27He rained also meat on them as the dust; winged birds as the sand of the seas.
  • Prov 5:11You will groan at your latter end, when your flesh and your body are consumed,
  • Prov 11:17The merciful man does good to his own soul, but he who is cruel troubles his own flesh.
  • Jer 51:35May the violence done to me and to my flesh be on Babylon!” the inhabitant of Zion will say; and, “May my blood be on the inhabitants of Chaldea!” will Jerusalem say.
  • Mic 3:2You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
  • Mic 3:3who also eat the flesh of my people, and flay their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.

Lexical data: Strong’s Hebrew & Greek Dictionaries (1890, public domain; openscriptures, CC-BY-SA). Word tagging from the Strong’s-numbered KJV.