a. of animals Genesis 41:2-19 Exodus 21:28; Exodus 22:30; Numbers 12:12 (E) Numbers 11:4-33 (JE) Genesis 9:4 + (P 30 t.) Deuteronomy 12:15 + (D 9 t.) Judges 6:19-21 1 Samuel 2:13,15; 1 Kings 17:6; 1 Kings 19:21; Job 31:31; Job 41:15; Psalm 50:13; Proverbs 23:20; Isaiah 22:13; Isaiah 44:16,19; Isaiah 65:4; Isaiah 66:17; Jeremiah 7:21; Jeremiah 11:15; Ezekiel 4:14 6t. Daniel 10:3; Hosea 8:13; Micah 3:3; Haggai 2:12; Zechariah 11:9,16.

b. of men Genesis 40:19 (E) Genesis 2:21; Exodus 4:7 (J) Leviticus 12:3; Leviticus 13:2 16t. Leviticus 26:29 (P) Deuteronomy 28:53,55; Deuteronomy 32:42; Judges 8:7; 1 Samuel 17:44; 1 Kings 4:34; 1 Kings 5:10; 1 Kings 5:14; 1 Kings 6:30; 1 Kings 9:36; Job 2:5; Job 4:15; Job 6:12; Job 7:5; Job 10:11; Job 13:14; Job 19:20,22; Job 21:6; Job 33:21,25; Psalm 27:2; Psalm 38:4; Psalm 38:8; Psalm 79:2; Psalm 102:6; Psalm 109:24; Proverbs 4:22; Proverbs 5:11; Isaiah 9:19; Isaiah 17:4; Isaiah 49:26; Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 3:4; Ezekiel 32:5; Ezekiel 37:6,8; Ezekiel 39:17,18; Daniel 1:15; Zechariah 14:12. The flesh of the body is contrasted with stone Ezekiel 11:19; Ezekiel 36:26.

2 flesh for the body itself (especially in P): על בשׂר אדם לא ייסך upon the body of man it shall not be poured Exodus 30:32 (P); מכנסי בד ילבשׁ על בשׂרו linen drawers shall he put on his body Leviticus 6:3; Leviticus 16:4 (P); וישׂם שׂק על בשׂרו 1 Kings 2;:27; ורחץ את בשׂרו and he shall bath his body Leviticus 14:9; Leviticus 15:13,16; Leviticus 16:24,26,28; Leviticus 17:16; Leviticus 22:6; Numbers 19:7,8 (P); שׂרט לנפשׁ לא תתנו בכשׂרכם ye shall not put any cutting for any one in your body Leviticus 19:28 compare Leviticus 21:5 (P); והעבירו תער על כל בשׂרם and they shall pass a razor over all their body Numbers 8:7 (P). Ecclesiastes uses בשׂר only in this sense Ecclesiastes 2:3; Ecclesiastes 4:5; Ecclesiastes 5:5; Ecclesiastes 11:10; Ecclesiastes 12:12; elsewhere this usage only in poetry; the body antithetical to נפשׁ Job 14:22; Isaiah 10:18; Psalm 63:2; לב Psalm 16:9; Psalm 84:3; Proverbs 14:30 (only here emphatic plural = entire body Bö^{§ 695}, Leiblichkeit De); מִבְּשָׂרִי apart from my body, in disembodied state Job 19:26; סמר מפחדך בשׂרי my body trembleth for fear of thee Psalm 119:120.

3 make organ of Generation (euphemism): בְּשַׂר עָרְלַתְכֶם Genesis 17:11,14,23,24,25 (P); בשׂר ערוה Exodus 28:42 (P), but בשׂר Genesis 17:14; Leviticus 15:2-19 (P) Ezekiel 16:26; Ezekiel 23:20; Ezekiel 44:7,9.

4 flesh for kindred, blood-relations: עצם מעצמי ובשׂר מבשׂרי bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh Genesis 2:23 (J); והיו לבשׂר אחד and they shall become one flesh Genesis 2:24 (J); עצמי ובשׂרי Genesis 29:14 (J) Judges 9:2; 2 Samuel 5:1; 2 Samuel 19:13; 2 Samuel 19:14; 1 Chronicles 11:1; בשׂר with suffix in same sense Genesis 37:27 (J) Nehemiah 5:5; Isaiah 58:7, for which שְׁאֵר בשׂרו near of kin, man or woman Leviticus 18:6; Leviticus 25:49 (both H; Leviticus 25:49 "" מִשְׁמָּחָה, compare RS_k¹⁴⁹).

5 man over against God as frail or erring Genesis 6:3 (J) Psalm 56:5; Psalm 78:39; eyes of flesh Job 10:4; arm of flesh 2Chronicles 32:8; Jeremiah 17:5; horses are flesh not spirit Isaiah 31:3

6 the phrase ׃כָּלבָּֿשָׂר

a. all living beings Genesis 6:17,19; Genesis 7:21; Genesis 9:11,15,16,17; Leviticus 17:14; Numbers 18:15 (P) Job 34:15; Psalm 136:25.

b. animals Genesis 7:15,16; Genesis 8:17 (P).

c. mankind Genesis 6:12,18; Numbers 16:22; Numbers 27:16 (P) Deuteronomy 5:28; Psalm 65:3; Psalm 145:21; Isaiah 40:5,6; Isaiah 49:26; Isaiah 66:16,23,24; Jeremiah 12:12; Jeremiah 25:31; Jeremiah 32:27; Jeremiah 45:5; Ezekiel 21:4; Ezekiel 21:9; Ezekiel 21:10; Joel 3:1; Zechariah 2:17; compare כל בשׂר אישׁ Job 12:10.