Gematria of Flesh
5 Hebrew words of the lexicon are rendered “flesh” in our Hebrew lexicon, and they stand 294 times between them in the twenty-four books. Hebrew and English do not answer one another word for word, so every candidate is here and none of them is called the translation.
- Hebrew equivalents
- 5
- Occurrences
- 294
- Distinct values
- 4
The 5 Hebrew words rendered “flesh”
The count beside each word is every form of it the twenty-four books use — inflected, and with its prefixes — as the morphology tags them. The link under each row opens the search on the dictionary spelling alone, which is a different question and usually a smaller number, and it says so.
flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman
First appearance ·Genesis 2:21בראשית ב:כאבָּשָׂר
flesh (as swelling out), as living or forfood; generally food of any kind; figuratively, kindred by blood
First appearance ·Exodus 21:10שמות כא:ישְׁאֵרָהּ
{flesh (from its freshness); by extension, body, person; also (by euphemistically) the pudenda of aman}
First appearance ·Daniel 2:11דניאל ב:יאבִּשְׂרָא
{properly, something slaughtered; hence, a beast (or meat, as butchered); abstractly butchery (or concretely, a place of slaughter)}
First appearance ·1 Samuel 25:11שמואל א כה:יאטִבְחָתִי
properly, eaten, i.e. food; also flesh, i.e. body
First appearance ·Zephaniah 1:17צפניה א:יזוּלְחֻמָם
The values on this page
Quick answers
What is the gematria of flesh?
The Tanakh renders “flesh” with 5 Hebrew words, each with its own gematria in the standard method: בשר = 502, שאר = 501, טבחה = 24, and 1 more.
How do you say flesh in Hebrew?
The Tanakh uses 5 Hebrew words for “flesh”; the most frequent are בשר (bâsâr), 273 times; שאר (shᵉʼêr), 16 times; טבחה (ṭibchâh), 3 times. Every one is listed on this page.
The Hebrew words on this page and their English senses come from our Hebrew lexicon, credited on the About page. Every value, every count and every reference is computed from the Westminster Leningrad Codex at the moment this page is served — the consonantal written text, vowel points and cantillation stripped, exactly as the search engine computes it.