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Lexicon :: Strong's H2145 - zāḵār

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זָכָר
Transliteration
zāḵār
Pronunciation
zaw-kawr'
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Part of Speech
adjective, masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 551e

Strong’s Definitions

זָכָר zâkâr, zaw-kawr'; from H2142; properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex):—× him, male, man(child, -kind).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 81x

The KJV translates Strong's H2145 in the following manner: male (67x), man (7x), child (4x), mankind (2x), him (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 81x
The KJV translates Strong's H2145 in the following manner: male (67x), man (7x), child (4x), mankind (2x), him (1x).
masculine noun

  1. male (of humans and animals)

    adjective

  2. male (of humans)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
זָכָר zâkâr, zaw-kawr'; from H2142; properly, remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex):—× him, male, man(child, -kind).
STRONGS H2145: Abbreviations
† זָכָר noun masculine & adjective male (Assyrian zikaru, zikru, COTGloss LyonManual, Gloss; Arabic ذَكَرً; Aramaic דִּכְרָא, axrkeD; Sabean רם [כ]דֿ DHMZMG 1876, 675; relation to above √ obscure; male as mentioned, talked of, Lane969f.; from assumed original sense be sharp (traces of this in Arabic: see Lane), BöProb 207 Fl in ChWBi. 422, compare Arabic ذَكَرً male organ; SchwZAW 1891, 176 ff. **(against Schwally's view see JPeritzWoman in the Ancient Hebrew Cult, JBL xvii {1898}, 111 ff.) from זָכַר = call upon in worship; hence male as competent to worship) — always absolute ז׳ Genesis 1:27 +; plural (ה)זְכָרִים Exodus 13:12 +; see also [זָכוּר]: —
I. substantive male, offspring of men and animals Exodus 13:12, 15 (plural, both J E); opposed to נְקֵבָה Deuteronomy 4:16; specifically
1. of men:
a. in phrase יָֽדְעָה לא אשׁר זָכָר לְמִשְׁכַב איש Judges 21:12 (BuRS 153 DrIntr. 151), compare Judges 21:11, Numbers 31:17, 18, 35 (all 3 P); צַלְמֵי זָכָר Ezekiel 16:17.
b. alone = man Jeremiah 30:6 (רְאוּ אִםיֹֿלֵד זָכָ֑ר || גֶּבֶר); usually collective, men, male persons (of all ages) Judges 21:11; 1 Kings 11:15, 16; Genesis 34:25; Leviticus 6:11; Leviticus 6:22; Leviticus 7:6; Numbers 1:2, 20, 22; Numbers 3:28, 34, 39; Numbers 18:10; Numbers 26:62; Numbers 31:7, 17 (all P); plural (ה)זכרים 2 Chronicles 31:16; Ezra 8:3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, so also Joshua 5:4 (|| העם כלֿ, and כלאֿנשׁי המלחמה), Joshua 17:2 (gloss? compare DrIntr. 104); especially of individual, in connection with circumcision Genesis 17:10, 12, 14, 23; Genesis 34:15, 22, 24; Exodus 12:48 (all P); of male child Leviticus 12:2 (P) Isaiah 66:7; opposed to נְקֵבָה Genesis 1:27; Genesis 5:2; Leviticus 12:7 (child) Leviticus 15:33; Leviticus 27:3, 5, 6, 7; Numbers 5:3 (all P; compare Sabean אנתֿים פאו דֿ(כ)רם DHMl.c.); opposed to אִשָּׁה in command ag. sodomy Leviticus 18:22; Leviticus 20:13 (both H).
2. of animals, especially for sacrifice Exodus 34:19 (J E; read הַזָּכָר for MT תִּזָּכָר); Exodus 12:5; Leviticus 1:3, 10; Leviticus 4:23 (all P) Leviticus 22:19 (H), Malachi 1:14; opposed to נְקֵבָה Genesis 6:19; Genesis 7:3, 9, 16; Leviticus 3:1, 6 (all P).
II. adjective singular male (only human beings) יֻלַּדלְֿךָ בֵּן ז׳ Jeremiah 20:15; כָּלבְּֿכֹר ז׳ Numbers 3:40, 43 (both P).

See related Aramaic BDB entry H1798.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

1:27; 1:27; 5:2; 6:19; 7:3; 7:9; 7:16; 17:10; 17:12; 17:14; 17:23; 34:15; 34:22; 34:24; 34:25

Exodus

12:5; 12:48; 13:12; 13:12; 13:15; 34:19

Leviticus

1:3; 1:10; 3:1; 3:6; 4:23; 6:11; 6:22; 7:6; 12:2; 12:7; 15:33; 18:22; 20:13; 22:19; 27:3; 27:5; 27:6; 27:7

Numbers

1:2; 1:20; 1:22; 3:28; 3:34; 3:39; 3:40; 3:43; 5:3; 18:10; 26:62; 31:7; 31:17; 31:17; 31:18; 31:35

Deuteronomy

4:16

Joshua

5:4; 17:2

Judges

21:11; 21:11; 21:12

1 Kings

11:15; 11:16

2 Chronicles

31:16

Ezra

8:3; 8:4; 8:5; 8:6; 8:7; 8:8; 8:9; 8:10; 8:11; 8:12; 8:13; 8:14

Isaiah

66:7

Jeremiah

20:15; 30:6

Ezekiel

16:17

Malachi

1:14

H2145

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H2145 matches the Hebrew זָכָר (zāḵār),
which occurs 82 times in 80 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Gen 1:27–Num 31:7)

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 1:27 - And God made man, according to the image of God [fn] he made him, male and female he made them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 5:2 - male and female he made them, and blessed them; and he called [fn]his name Adam, in the day in which he made them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:19

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 6:19 - And of all cattle and of all reptiles and of all wild beasts, even of all flesh, thou shalt bring by [fn]pairs of all, into the ark, that thou mayest feed them with thyself: male and female they shall be.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:3 - And of clean flying creatures of the sky sevens, male and female, and of all unclean flying creatures pairs, male and female, to maintain seed on all the earth.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:9

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:9 - pairs went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as God commanded Noe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:16

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 7:16 - And they that entered went in male and female of all flesh, as God commanded Noe, and the Lord God shut the ark outside of him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:10 - And this is the covenant which thou shalt fully keep between me and you, and between thy seed after thee for their generations; every male of you shall be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:12 - And the child of eight days old shall be circumcised by you, every male throughout your generations, and the servant born in the house and he that is bought with money, of every son of a stranger, who is not of thy seed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:14 - And the uncircumcised male, who shall not be circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin on the eighth day, that soul shall be utterly destroyed from its family, for he has broken my covenant.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:23 - And Abraam took Ismael his son, and all his home-born servants, and all those bought with money, and every male of the men in the house of Abraam, and he circumcised their foreskins in the time of that day, according as God spoke to him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:15 - Only on these terms will we conform to you, and dwell among you, if ye also will be as we are, in that every male of you be circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:22 - Only on these terms will the men conform to us to dwell with us so as to be one people, if every male of us be circumcised, as they also are circumcised.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:24 - And all that went in at the gate of their city hearkened to Emmor and Sychem his son, and they were circumcised in the flesh of their foreskin every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxGen 34:25 - And it came to pass on the third day, when they were in pain, the two sons of Jacob, Symeon and Levi, Dina's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city securely, and slew every male.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:5 - It shall be to you a lamb unblemished, a male of a year old: ye shall take it of the lambs and the kids.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 12:48 - And if any proselyte shall come to you to keep the passover to the Lord, thou shalt circumcise every male of him, and then shall he approach to sacrifice it, and he shall be even as the original inhabitant of the land; no uncircumcised person shall eat of it.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:12 - that thou shalt [fn]set apart every offspring opening the womb, the males to the Lord, every one that opens the womb out of the herds or among thy cattle, as many as thou shalt have: thou shalt sanctify the males to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15

Unchecked Copy BoxExo 13:15 - And when Pharao hardened his heart so as not to send us away, he slew every first-born in the land of Egypt, both the first-born of man and the first-born of beast; therefore do I sacrifice every offspring that opens the womb, the males to the Lord, and every first-born of my sons I will redeem.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:3 - If his gift be a whole-burnt-offering, he shall bring an unblemished male of the herd to the door of the tabernacle of witness, he shall bring it as acceptable before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 1:10 - And if his gift be of the sheep to the Lord, or of the lambs, or of the kids for whole-burnt-offerings, he shall bring it a male without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:1

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:1 - And if his gift to the Lord be a peace-offering, if he should bring it of the oxen, whether it be male or whether it be female, he shall bring it unblemished before the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 3:6 - And if his gift be of the sheep, a peace-offering to the Lord, male or female, he shall bring it unblemished.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 4:23 - and his trespass wherein he has sinned, be known to him,—then shall he offer for his gift a kid of the goats, a male without blemish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:18 - (LXX 6:11) Every male of the priests shall eat it: it is a perpetual ordinance throughout your generations of the burnt-offerings of the Lord; whosoever shall touch them shall be hallowed.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:29

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 6:29 - (LXX 6:22) Every male among the priests shall eat it: it is most holy to the Lord.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 7:6 - Every male of the priests shall eat them, in the holy place they shall eat them: they are most holy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:2

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:2 - Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, Whatsoever woman shall have conceived and born a male child shall be unclean seven days, she shall be unclean according to the days of separation for her monthly courses.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 12:7 - And he shall present it before the Lord, and the priest shall make atonement for her, and shall purge her from the fountain of her blood; this is the law of her who bears a male or a female.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 15:33 - And this is the law for her that has the issue of blood in her separation, and as to the person who has an issue of seed, in his issue: it is a law for the male and the female, and for the man who shall have lain with her that is set apart.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 18:22 - And thou shalt not lie with a man as with a woman, for it is an abomination.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 20:13 - And whoever shall lie with a male as with a woman, they have both wrought abomination; let them die the death, they are guilty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:19

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 22:19 - your free-will-offerings shall be males without blemish of the herds, or of the sheep, or of the goats.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:3

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:3 - the valuation of a male from twenty years old to sixty years old shall be—his valuation shall be fifty didrachms of silver by the standard of the sanctuary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:5 - And if it be from five years old to twenty, the valuation of a male shall be twenty didrachms, and of a female ten didrachms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:6

Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:6 - And from a month old to five years old, the valuation of a male shall be five didrachms, and of a female, three didrachms of silver.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLev 27:7 - And if from sixty years old and upward, if it be a male, his valuation shall be fifteen didrachms of silver, and if a female, ten didrachms.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:2 - Take the sum of all the congregation of Israel according to their kindreds, according to the houses of their fathers' families, according to their number by their names, according to their heads: every male

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:20 - And the sons of Ruben the first-born of Israel according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their heads, were—all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that went out with the host—

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 1:22 - For the children of Symeon according to their kindreds, according to their divisions, according to the houses of their families, according to the number of their names, according to their polls, all males from twenty years old and upward, every one that goes out with the host,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:15 - Take the number of the sons of Levi, according to the houses of their families, according to their divisions; number ye them every male from a month old and upwards.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:22 - The numbering of them according to the number of every male from a month old and upwards, their numbering was seven thousand and five hundred.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:28 - Every male from a month old and upward, eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charges of the holy things.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:34

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:34 - The mustering of them according to number, every male from a month old and upwards, was six thousand and fifty.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:39 - All the numbering of the Levites, whom Moses and Aaron numbered by the word of the Lord, according to their families, every male from a month old and upwards, were two and twenty thousand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:40 - And the Lord spoke to Moses, saying, Count every first-born male of the children of Israel from a month old and upwards, and take the number by name.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 3:43 - And all the male first-born in number by name, from a month old and upwards, were according to their numbering twenty-two thousand and two hundred and seventy-three.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 5:3 - Whether male or female, send them forth out of the camp; and they shall not defile their camps in which I dwell among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:10

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 18:10 - In the most holy place shall ye eat them; every male shall eat them, thou and thy sons: they shall be holy to thee.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62

Unchecked Copy BoxNum 26:62 - And there were according to their numbering, twenty-three thousand, every male from a month old and upward; for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because they have no inheritance in the midst of the children of Israel.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 31:7 - And they set themselves in array against Madian, as the Lord commanded Moses; and they slew every male.

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