שְׂטַר
side
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Masculine
- Grammatically masculine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H7859 appears — 1 distinct verse across 1 book. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Daniel 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
At its core, שטר (shᵉṭar) means “side.” With only 1 verse it sits in the long tail of Hebrew Bible vocabulary. Its uses cluster heavily in Daniel (100% of all occurrences). Scripture uses it exactly once, at Daniel 7:5. Dig into 1-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7859 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 1
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 1 distinct verse.
- 1 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 1 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #6,101
- by frequency
- Rank #6,101 (rank 6,101 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 1 occurrence in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Daniel 1 verse 100%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 1 distinct verse.
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 100%
How translations render this word
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- King James Version: Side 1×
- American Standard Version: Side 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Sides 1×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: On 1×, Side 1×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7859 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7859 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7859 across 1 tagged occurrence — most commonly:
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7859 across 2 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- side ( Dan 7:5 )
Word origin
שְׂטַר n.m. side;—abs. Dn 7:5
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: of uncertain derivation
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
*שְׂטַר
- = סְטַר to slap. Y. Shebi. IV, 35ᵇ bot. ש׳ ותלי ביה he slaps (the fig-tree) &c., v. תָּחוּב. [Comment. refer to שְׁטַר: he smears clay over it.]
שָׁטַר
- to draw lines, arrange; [Assyr. šaṭâru to write]; v. שׁוֹטֵר.
שְׁטַר
- (preced.) to draw, spread, strike (butter, salve &c.). Targ. Is. XXXVIII, 21 ויִשְׁטְרוּן ed. Vien. (ed. Lag. וישיטרון; ed. Wil. וישורטון), v. שְׁטַח.—Gitt. 69ᵇ ונִשְׁטְרִינְהוּ בכמכא and let him strike kamakh (v. כָּמַךְ) over it; (Rashi: let him soak it in k.). Ib. ונשטרינהו בדובשא and strike honey over it. Pes. 44ᵃ אי מִשְׁטַר קָשְׁטַר וכ׳ if he spreads it (on bread) and eats it (Rashi: if he dips bread into it); Naz. 36ᵇ. B. Mets. 85ᵇ אִשְׁטַר לך משטר I will smear thee a salve (over thy eyes).
שֶׁטֶר
- (v. שׁוֹטֵר) executive office, execution. Yalk. Deut. 907 אלמלא שִׁטְרוֹ של יואב וכ׳ but for the executive office of Joab, David could not have executed justice; Yalk. Sam. 147 שוטרו (read: שִׁיטְרוֹ); Tanḥ. Shof’ṭim 2 סיטנו; ed. Bub. 3 שיטנו (corr. acc.).
שְׁטָר
- (v. שָׁטַר) writ, document. Kidd. I, 1 a woman may be acquired as wife בכסף בש׳ וכ׳ by handing her money (or money’s worth), by a writ (handing her a paper on which is written, ‘thou art betrothed unto me’) &c. Ib. 2 a slave is acquired בש׳ by a document (bill of sale). Ib. 3ᵇ; a. fr.—Esp. ש׳ חוב (or sub. חוב) note of indebtedness, bond. Y. Peah I, 16ᵇ bot. חוטף ש׳ אחד, v. נָשָׂא; Y. Snh. X, beg. 27ᶜ; Y. Kidd. I, end, 61ᵈ חוטף אחד (corr. acc.); Yalk. Num. 744 ש׳ חוב אחד. B. Mets. I, 8 מצא ש׳ בין שְׁטָרוֹתָין וכ׳ if a person finds (another man’s) bond among his papers, and does not know its nature (by whom it was deposited &c.); a. fr.—Pl. שְׁטָרוֹת, constr. שְׁטָרֵי. Gitt. I, 5, v. עַרְכִי. B. Mets. l. c. תכריך של ש׳ a roll of bonds; אגודה של ש׳ a bundle of bonds. Ib. ש׳ חליצה, ש׳ מיאונין v. respective determinants. Ib. 6; a. v. fr.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 1 verse that also exists in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 1 Hebrew verse it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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