International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
SHEARsher.
See SHEEP; SHEEP TENDING.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
v. t.) To cut, clip, or sever anything from with shears or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth.
2. (v. t.) To separate or sever with shears or a similar instrument; to cut off; to clip (something) from a surface; as, to shear a fleece.
3. (v. t.) To reap, as grain.
4. (v. t.) Fig.: To deprive of property; to fleece.
5. (v. t.) To produce a change of shape in by a shear. See Shear, n., 4.
6. (n.) A pair of shears; -- now always used in the plural, but formerly also in the singular. See Shears.
7. (n.) A shearing; -- used in designating the age of sheep.
8. (n.) An action, resulting from applied forces, which tends to cause two contiguous parts of a body to slide relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact; -- also called shearing stress, and tangential stress.
9. (n.) A strain, or change of shape, of an elastic body, consisting of an extension in one direction, an equal compression in a perpendicular direction, with an unchanged magnitude in the third direction.
10. (v. i.) To deviate. See Sheer.
11. (v. i.) To become more or less completely divided, as a body under the action of forces, by the sliding of two contiguous parts relatively to each other in a direction parallel to their plane of contact.
Strong's Hebrew
7610. Shear Yashub -- "a remnant shall return," son of IsaiahShear Yashub. << 7609, 7610.
Shear Yashub. 7611 >>. "a remnant shall return,"
son of Isaiah. Transliteration:
Shear Yashub Phonetic
... /hebrew/7610.htm - 6k 1494. gazaz -- to shear
... << 1493, 1494. gazaz. 1495 >>. to shear. Transliteration: gazaz Phonetic Spelling:
(gaw-zaz') Short Definition: off. Word Origin a prim. ...
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7606. shear -- rest, remainder
... << 7605, 7606. shear. 7607 >>. rest, remainder. Transliteration: shear Phonetic
Spelling: (sheh-awr') Short Definition: rest. ... << 7605, 7606. shear. 7607 >>. ...
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7605. shear -- rest, residue, remnant
... << 7604, 7605. shear. 7606 >>. rest, residue, remnant. Transliteration: shear Phonetic
Spelling: (sheh-awr') Short Definition: rest. ... << 7604, 7605. shear. 7606 > ...
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3697. kasam -- to shear, clip
... to shear, clip. Transliteration: kasam Phonetic Spelling: (kaw-sam') Short Definition:
trim. ... root Definition to shear, clip NASB Word Usage only trim (1). ...
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7094. qatsab -- to cut off, shear
... << 7093, 7094. qatsab. 7095 >>. to cut off, shear. Transliteration: qatsab Phonetic
Spelling: (kaw-tsab') Short Definition: off. Word Origin a prim. ...
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2685. chatsaph -- to show insolence or harshness
... hasty, be urgent. (Aramaic) a primitive root; properly, to shear or cut close;
figuratively, to be severe -- hasty, be urgent. << 2684, 2685. chatsaph. 2686 >>. ...
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1468. guz -- to pass over or away
... bring, cut off. A primitive root (compare gazaz); properly, to shear off; but used
only in the (figuratively) sense of passing rapidly -- bring, cut off. ...
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