Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
1. (
a.) Utter; complete; steep; thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics.
2. (v. i.) Very thin or transparent; -- applied to fabrics; as, sheer muslin.
3. (v. i.) Being only what it seems to be; obvious; simple; mere; downright; as, sheer folly; sheer nonsense.
4. (v. i.) Straight up and down; vertical; perpendicular.
5. (adv.) Clean; quite; at once.
6. (v. t.) To shear.
7. (v. i.) To decline or deviate from the line of the proper course; to turn aside; to swerve; as, a ship sheers from her course; a horse sheers at a bicycle.
8. (n.) The longitudinal upward curvature of the deck, gunwale, and lines of a vessel, as when viewed from the side.
9. (n.) The position of a vessel riding at single anchor and swinging clear of it.
10. (n.) A turn or change in a course.
11. (n.) Shears See Shear.
Strong's Hebrew
7607. sheer -- flesh... << 7606, 7607.
sheer. 7608 >>. flesh. Transliteration:
sheer Phonetic Spelling:
(sheh-ayr') Short Definition: relative.
... << 7606, 7607.
sheer. 7608 >>. Strong's Numbers
/hebrew/7607.htm - 6k 7892. shiyr -- song
... << 7891, 7892. shiyr. 7892a >>. song. Transliteration: shiyr Phonetic Spelling:
(sheer) Short Definition: musical. musicalick, singer song ...
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7534. raq -- thin, only, altogether, surely
... 4), except* (1), gaunt* (1), however (6), lean (2), moreover (1), never be anything
(1), nevertheless (5), nothing (2), only (64), only* (1), sheer (1), still ...
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6223. ashir -- rich
... << 6222, 6223. ashir. 6224 >>. rich. Transliteration: ashir Phonetic Spelling:
(aw-sheer') Short Definition: rich. Word Origin from ashar ...
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7891. shir -- to sing
... << 7890, 7891. shir. 7892 >>. to sing. Transliteration: shir Phonetic Spelling:
(sheer) Short Definition: singers. Word Origin denominative ...
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7608. shaarah -- near kinswomen
... near kinswomen. Transliteration: shaarah Phonetic Spelling: (shah-ar-aw') Short
Definition: kinswomen. Word Origin fem. of sheer, qv. near kinswomen ...
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7609. Sheerah -- an Ephraimite woman
... Word Origin from the same as sheer Definition an Ephraimite woman NASB Word Usage
Sheerah (1). Sherah. The same as sha'arah; Sheerah, an Israelitess -- Sherah. ...
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