STRONGS NUMBER H7611


Word Summary
sheerith: rest, residue, remnant, remainder
Original Word: שְׁאֵרִית
Transliteration: sheerith
Phonetic Spelling: (sheh-ay-reeth')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: rest, residue, remnant, remainder
Meaning: rest, residue, remnant, remainder
Strong's Concordance
remainder or residual

From sha'ar; a remainder or residual (surviving, final) portion -- that had escaped, be left, posterity, remain(-der), remnant, residue, rest.

see HEBREW sha'ar

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H7611. sheerith

שְׁאֵרִיתnoun feminine rest, residue, remnant, remainder ( = שָׁאָר‎); — ׳שׁ‎ absolute 2 Samuel 14:7 +, construct Ezekiel 36:3 +, שֵׁרִית‎ (Ges§ 23f) 1 Chronicles 12:39 (van d. H. v.12:38); suffix שְׁאֵרִיתֵךְIsaiah 14:30; Ezekiel 5:10, תוֺ‎- Isaiah 44:17, תָם‎- Jeremiah 15:9; —

1 rest, what is left, of wood Isaiah 44:17, land 15:9 ("" מְּלֵיטָה‎), Jeremiah 47:4-5, Ezekiel 25:16; ׳שׁ חֵמֹתPsalm 76: difficult (Gr [compare Che] proposes חֲמָתHamath, Du אֻמֹּתtribes); rest of princes Jeremiah 39:3, of nations ( = the other nations, Toy) Ezekiel 36:3-4, 5; of Israel 1 Chronicles 12:39 (van d. H. v.12:38), 2 Chronicles 34:9; Nehemiah 7:71 (van d. H. 7:72); = last remnant of people, Philistines Amos 1:8 (compare We), Isaiah 14:30, Edom Amos 9:12, Anathoth Jeremiah 11:23, Ashdod 25:20, Babylon 50:26, Amalek 1 Chronicles 4:43(+ הַמְּלֵיטָה‎), Israel 2 Kings 21:14; Jeremiah 6:9; 15:9; remnant left after catastrophe Amos 5:15; Jeremiah 8:3; 24:8; 40:11, 15; 41:10, 16; 42:2, 15, 19; 43:5; 44:12, 14, 28; Ezekiel 5:10; 9:8; 11:13; Haggai 1:12, 14; 2:2, even לִשׁ אֶתהַֿצֹּלֵעָה ׳וְשַׂמְתִּיMicah 4:7 (as promise, "" עָצוּם‎ compare GieBeiträge, 42f.); = survivors Jeremiah 44:7, ׳הַשּׁ מִןהַֿחֶרֶב2 Chronicles 36:20; = faithful remnant of Israel or Judah (technical term of prophets, compare שְׁאָר‎ near the end), 2 Kings 19:4=Isaiah 37:4; 2 Kings 19:31 ("" מְּלֵיטָה‎) = Isaiah 37:32 ("" id.), Micah 2:12; 5:6; 5:7; 7:18; Ezra 9:14 ("" id.), Isaiah 46:3; Jeremiah 23:3; 31:7; Zephaniah 2:7, 9 ("" יֶתֶר‎), 3:13; Zechariah 8:6, 11, 12.

2 remainder = descendants ( = שְׁאָרIsaiah 14:22): Genesis 45:7, וּשׁ ׳שֵׁם2 Samuel 14:7.

II. שׁאר‎ (√ of following; compare Assyrian šêru, Punic שאר‎, flesh, Arabic blood-revenge, so Sabean תֿאר‎, SabDenkmNo. 5, 1. 7; perhaps originally blood (compare Jeremiah 51:35), NöZMG xi (1886), 723 and IdM 101, who compare Mandean תירתא‎ = conscience, mind, etc., perhaps properly midriff, compare Hoffmbelow).