Bible Dictionary: Shaggy

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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) Rough with long hair or wool.

2. (n.) Rough; rugged; jaggy.

Strong's Hebrew

8163a. sair -- hairy
... hairy. Transliteration: sair or sair Short Definition: hairy. Word Origin from the
same as sear Definition hairy NASB Word Usage hairy (3), shaggy (2). ...
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6785. tsemer -- wool
... 16). woolen. From an unused root probably meaning to be shaggy; wool --
wool(-len). 6784, 6785. tsemer. 6786 . Strong's Numbers.
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8163. sa'iyr -- hairy
... devil, goat, hairy, kid, rough, satyr Or sabir {saw-eer'}; from sa'ar; shaggy; as
noun, a he-goat; by analogy, a faun -- devil, goat, hairy, kid, rough, satyr. ...
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5569. samar -- bristling, rough
... Word Origin from samar Definition bristling, rough NASB Word Usage bristly (1).
rough. From camar; bristling, ie Shaggy -- rough. see HEBREW camar. 5568, 5569 ...
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Library

Against Men who Embellish Themselves.
... spontaneously, as a horse in his mane; but has adorned man, like the lions, with
a beard, and endowed him, as an attribute of manhood, with shaggy breasts,"a ...
/.../clement/the instructor paedagogus/chapter iii against men who embellish.htm

Martyrdom of the Holy and Glorious Apostle Bartholomew.
... And the demon answered and said: He has black hair, a shaggy head, a fair skin,
[2410] large eyes, beautiful nostrils, his ears hidden by the hair of his head ...
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Change not Always Improvement.
... Whence comes it that men shaggy and hirsute learn to teach the resin [39] to feed
on their arms with such rapacity, the tweezers to weed their chin so ...
/.../tertullian/on the pallium/chapter iv change not always improvement.htm

The Symbols of the Republic.
... of Europe. It stretches itself out over three continents. The waves of
three oceans chafe against its shaggy sides. The energies ...
/.../chapin/humanity in the city/discourse iv the symbols of.htm

Gambling, Card-Playing
... of "dice. See him with his long, slender fingers; with his shaggy, unkempt
hair; with keen eyes, and a sordid countenance. He is ...
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Off to vienna
... sun.". And the shaggy fighting-men of the frontier villages watched him
ride through their streets, and thought: "This is an angel. ...
/.../chapter iv off to vienna.htm

The Adventure of the Three Sons of Saint George.
... like those of eagles, but infinitely larger and sharper; he had ears like a fox,
with a scaly breast, and wings like a bird; but his body was shaggy, and his ...
/.../the seven champions of christendom/chapter fourteen the adventure of.htm

The Spirit and Power of Elias.
... And we know that it was there amid the shaggy forests, and closely-set mountains,
with their rapid torrents, that John the Baptist waited, fulfilled his ...
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Through the Red Sea
... Where was the sea? After the camels followed a score of mules, little and
trim in contrast to the tall shaggy beasts ahead of them. ...
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Christ and the Dog
... own country. They act as scavengers, and live on whatever they can pick
up. They are shaggy and dirty and yellow. The people stone ...
/.../chidley/fifty-two story talks to boys and girls/christ and the dog.htm

Thesaurus

Shaggy (2 Occurrences)
... Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) Rough with long hair or wool. 2. (n.) Rough;
rugged; jaggy. Multi-Version Concordance Shaggy (2 Occurrences). ...
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Lions (50 Occurrences)
... (1.) Gor (ie, a "suckling"), the lion's whelp (Genesis 49:9; Jeremiah 51:38, etc.).
(2.) Kephir (ie, "shaggy"), the young lion (Judges 14:5; Job 4:10; Psalm 91 ...
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Lion (92 Occurrences)
... The adult male, in most varieties, has a thick mane of long shaggy hair that adds
to his apparent size, which is less than that of the largest tigers. ...
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Goat (92 Occurrences)
... Its flesh was a delicacy among the Hebrews (Genesis 27:9, 14, 17; Judges 6:19).
(4.) Hebrews sa'ir, meaning the "shaggy," a hairy goat, a he-goat (2 Chronicles ...
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Rough (24 Occurrences)
... water. 5. (n.) Marked by coarseness; shaggy; ragged; disordered; -- said
of dress, appearance, or the like; as, a rough coat. 6. (n ...
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Ragged (1 Occurrence)
... 5. (n.) Wearing tattered clothes; as, a ragged fellow. 6. (n.) Rough; shaggy;
rugged. Multi-Version Concordance Ragged (1 Occurrence). ...
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Rugged (7 Occurrences)
... mountain; a rugged road. 2. (n.) Not neat or regular; uneven. 3. (n.) Rough
with bristles or hair; shaggy. 4. (n.) Harsh; hard; crabbed ...
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Rug (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) A rough, woolly, or shaggy dog. 4. (vt) To pull roughly or hastily; to plunder;
to spoil; to tear. Int. Standard Bible Encyclopedia. RUG. ...
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Seirah (1 Occurrence)
... Moab (Judges 3:26). The name is from the same root as the foregoing, and
probably applied to some shaggy forest. The quarries by ...
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Shageh (1 Occurrence)

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Bible Concordance

Shaggy (2 Occurrences)

Isaiah 13:21 But wild-cats shall lie there; and their houses shall be full of ferrets; and ostriches shall dwell there, and satyrs shall dance there.
(See NAS)

Daniel 8:21 The rough male goat is the king of Greece: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.
(See NAS NIV)

Subtopics

Shaggy

Related Terms

Lions (50 Occurrences)

Lion (92 Occurrences)

Goat (92 Occurrences)

Rough (24 Occurrences)

Ragged (1 Occurrence)

Rugged (7 Occurrences)

Rug (1 Occurrence)

Seirah (1 Occurrence)