Genesis 31:19
And Laban went to shear his sheep: and Rachel had stolen the images that were her father's.
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Shear
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1 Samuel 25:4
And David heard in the wilderness that Nabal did shear his sheep.
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גָּזַז
gazâz · gaw-zaz'
4 times translated as this KJV form15 total Strong's occurrences
to cut off; specifically to shear a flock or shave the hair; figuratively to destroy an enemy
Strong's KJV usage: cut off (down), poll, shave, (sheep-) shear(-er).
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Strong's first: Genesis 31:19Strong's last: 1 Samuel 25:4
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H1494
All the firstling males that come of thy herd and of thy flock thou shalt sanctify unto the LORD thy God: thou shalt do no work with the firstling of thy bullock, nor shear the firstling of thy sheep.
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shear
SHEAR, verb transitive preterit tense sheared; participle passive sheared or shorn. The old preterit tense shore is entirely obsolete.
1. To cut or clip something from the surface with an instrument of two blades; to separate any thing from the surface by shears, scissors or a like instrument; as, to shear sheep; to shear cloth. It is appropriately used for the cutting of wool from sheep on their skins, for clipping the nap from cloth, but may be applied to other things; as, a horse shears the ground in feeding much closer than an ox.
2. To separate by shears; as, to shear a fleece.
3. To reap. [Not in use.] Scotish.
SHEAR, To deviate. [See Sheer.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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