H1320. basar

בָּשָׂר‎₂₆₆ noun masculine flesh (compare Arabic skin, Syriac , Assyrian bišru, blood-relation, Dl^{Assyrian Stud. i. 143, compare Pr. 170}, Sabean תורם בשר‎ flesh of bulls) — Genesis 2:21 126t.; construct בְּשַׂר‎ 17:11 40t.; suffix בּשָׂרִי‎ etc. Psalm 16:9 96t.; plural בְּשָׂרִים‎ Proverbs 14:30; — 1 of the body:

a. of animals Genesis 41:2-19 Exodus 21:28; 22:30; Numbers 12:12 (E) 11:4-33 (JE) Genesis 9:4 + (P 30 t.) Deuteronomy 12:15 + (D 9 t.) Judges 6:19-21 1 Samuel 2:13, 15; 1 Kings 17:6; 19:21; Job 31:31; 41:15; Psalm 50:13; Proverbs 23:20; Isaiah 22:13; 44:16, 19; 65:4; 66:17; Jeremiah 7:21; 11:15; Ezekiel 4:14 6t. Daniel 10:3; Hosea 8:13; Micah 3:3; Haggai 2:12; Zechariah 11:9, 16.

b. of men Genesis 40:19 (E) 2:21; Exodus 4:7 (J) Leviticus 12:3; 13:2 16t. 26:29 (P) Deuteronomy 28:53, 55; 32:42; Judges 8:7; 1 Samuel 17:44; 1 Kings 4:34; 5:10; 5:14; 6:30; 1 Kings 9:36; Job 2:5; 4:15; 6:12; 7:5; 10:11; 13:14; 19:20, 22; 21:6; 33:21, 25; Psalm 27:2; 38:4; 38:8; 79:2; 102:6; 109:24; Proverbs 4:22; 5:11; Isaiah 9:19; 17:4; 49:26; Jeremiah 19:9; Lamentations 3:4; Ezekiel 32:5; 37:6, 8; 39:17-18, Daniel 1:15; Zechariah 14:12. The flesh of the body is contrasted with stone Ezekiel 11:19; 36:26.

2 flesh for the body itself (especially in P): ייסך לא אדם בשׂר על‎ upon the body of man it shall not be poured Exodus 30:32 (P); בשׂרו על ילבשׁ בד מכנסי‎ linen drawers shall he put on his body Leviticus 6:3; 16:4 (P); בשׂרו על שׂק וישׂם‎ 1 Kings 2;:27; בשׂרו את ורחץ‎ and he shall bath his body 14:9; 15:13, 16; 16:24, 26, 28; 17:16; 22:6; Numbers 19:7-8, (P); בכשׂרכם תתנו לא לנפשׁ שׂרט‎ ye shall not put any cutting for any one in your body Leviticus 19:28 compare 21:5 (P); בשׂרם כל על תער והעבירו‎ and they shall pass a razor over all their body Numbers 8:7 (P). Ecclesiastes uses בשׂר‎ only in this sense Ecclesiastes 2:3; 4:5; 5:5; 11:10; 12:12; elsewhere this usage only in poetry; the body antithetical to נפשׁ‎ Job 14:22; Isaiah 10:18; Psalm 63:2; לב‎ 16:9; 84:3; Proverbs 14:30 (only here emphatic plural = entire body Bö^{§ 695}, Leiblichkeit De); מִבְּשָׂרִי‎ apart from my body, in disembodied state Job 19:26; בשׂרי מפחדך סמר‎ my body trembleth for fear of thee Psalm 119:120.

3 make organ of Generation (euphemism): עָרְלַתְכֶם בְּשַׂר‎ Genesis 17:11, 14, 23, 24, 25 (P); ערוה בשׂר‎ Exodus 28:42 (P), but בשׂר‎ Genesis 17:14; Leviticus 15:2-19 (P) Ezekiel 16:26; 23:20; 44:7, 9.

4 flesh for kindred, blood-relations: מבשׂרי ובשׂר מעצמי עצם‎ bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh Genesis 2:23 (J); אחד לבשׂר והיו‎ and they shall become one flesh 2:24 (J); ובשׂרי עצמי‎ 29:14 (J) Judges 9:2; 2 Samuel 5:1; 19:13; 19:14; 1 Chronicles 11:1; בשׂר‎ with suffix in same sense Genesis 37:27 (J) Nehemiah 5:5; Isaiah 58:7, for which בשׂרו שְׁאֵר‎ near of kin, man or woman Leviticus 18:6; 25:49 (both H; 25:49 "" מִשְׁמָּחָה‎, compare RS_k¹⁴⁹).

5 man over against God as frail or erring Genesis 6:3 (J) Psalm 56:5; 78:39; eyes of flesh Job 10:4; arm of flesh 2 Chronicles 32:8; Jeremiah 17:5; horses are flesh not spirit Isaiah 31:3

6 the phrase ׃כָּלבָּֿשָׂר‎

a. all living beings Genesis 6:17, 19; 7:21; 9:11, 15, 16, 17; Leviticus 17:14; Numbers 18:15 (P) Job 34:15; Psalm 136:25.

b. animals Genesis 7:15-16, 8:17 (P).

c. mankind Genesis 6:12, 18; Numbers 16:22; 27:16 (P) Deuteronomy 5:28; Psalm 65:3; 145:21; Isaiah 40:5-6, 49:26; 66:16, 23, 24; Jeremiah 12:12; 25:31; 32:27; 45:5; Ezekiel 21:4; 21:9; 21:10; Joel 3:1; Zechariah 2:17; compare אישׁ בשׂר כל‎ Job 12:10.