STRONGS NUMBER H5569


Word Summary
samar: bristling, rough
Original Word: סָמָר
Transliteration: samar
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-mar')
Part of Speech: Adjective
Short Definition: bristling, rough
Meaning: bristling, shaggy
Strong's Concordance
rough

From camar; bristling, i.e. Shaggy -- rough.

see HEBREW camar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5569. samar

סָמָרadjective bristling, rough; — ס ׳יֶלֶקJeremiah 51:27 bristling locust, perhaps with allusion to horn-like sheaths enclosing wings of the pupa, see DrJoel and Amos, 58 (on formation compare LagBN 50).