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Strong's H2145 זָכָר (zakar)

Zakar means “male” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.

Same number, other testament: Strong's G2145 — euprosedros in the Greek Bible.

Strong's Number H2145
Language Hebrew
Linked Usages 80
Books 14

Strong's H2145 Quick Answer

Strong's H2145 זָכָר (zakar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. zakar (zaw-kawr') adj. 1. (properly) remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex) [from H2142] It has 80 linked Bible usages across 14 books. Visible English usage signals include male, man, were, be, and is. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.

Meaning
zakar (zaw-kawr') adj. 1. (properly) remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex) [from H2142]
Usage
80 linked usages
Books
14 indexed books
Corpus
Old Testament
Usage Words
male, man, were, be, and is

Meaning and Definition

zakar (zaw-kawr') adj. 1. (properly) remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex) [from H2142] KJV: X him, male, man(child, -kind). Root(s): H2142

Original Word
זָכָר
Transliteration
zakar
Derivation
Root: זכר First root strongs: 2142
Morphology
adjective

Across Lexicons

How independent scholarly lexicons define Strong's H2145. Each definition is shown with its source so you can compare and cite the original reference works.

How Strong's H2145 Is Translated

The English word each shown verse actually uses to render zakar, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.

male Genesis 1:27 37× man Exodus 13:15 were Numbers 3:22 be Exodus 12:48 is Leviticus 6:29 are Ezra 8:13

How Strong's H2145 Usage Compares

Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.

  • The largest indexed corpus on this page is Old Testament with 80 linked usages.
  • The linked rows are Old Testament Hebrew usage, grouped by book for fast canonical scanning.

Strong's H2145 by Corpus

Indexed usage grouped by testament and extended corpus so readers can compare this word across the Bible, Septuagint, deuterocanonical books, and 1 Enoch where present.

Strong's H2145 in the Old Testament

80 indexed usages in Old Testament.

Genesis 1:27 KJV

So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.

Genesis 5:2 KJV

Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.

Genesis 6:19 KJV

And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.

Usage Excerpts

First 80 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H2145.

Genesis 1:27 Old Testament, KJV
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them.
Genesis 5:2 Old Testament, KJV
Male and female created he them; and blessed them, and called their name Adam, in the day when they were created.
Genesis 6:19 Old Testament, KJV
And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee; they shall be male and female.
Genesis 7:3 Old Testament, KJV
Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.
Genesis 7:9 Old Testament, KJV
There went in two and two unto Noah into the ark, the male and the female, as God had commanded Noah.
Genesis 7:16 Old Testament, KJV
And they that went in, went in male and female of all flesh, as God had commanded him: and the LORD shut him in.
Genesis 17:10 Old Testament, KJV
This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.
Genesis 17:12 Old Testament, KJV
And he that is eight days old shall be circumcised among you, every man child in your generations, he that is born in the house, or bought with money of any stranger, which is not of thy seed.
Genesis 17:14 Old Testament, KJV
And the uncircumcised man child whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul shall be cut off from his people; he hath broken my covenant.
Genesis 17:23 Old Testament, KJV
And Abraham took Ishmael his son, and all that were born in his house, and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham's house; and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin in the selfsame day, as God had said unto him.
Genesis 34:15 Old Testament, KJV
But in this will we consent unto you: If ye will be as we be, that every male of you be circumcised;
Genesis 34:22 Old Testament, KJV
Only herein will the men consent unto us for to dwell with us, to be one people, if every male among us be circumcised, as they are circumcised.
Genesis 34:24 Old Testament, KJV
And unto Hamor and unto Shechem his son hearkened all that went out of the gate of his city; and every male was circumcised, all that went out of the gate of his city.
Genesis 34:25 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass on the third day, when they were sore, that two of the sons of Jacob, Simeon and Levi, Dinah's brethren, took each man his sword, and came upon the city boldly, and slew all the males.
Exodus 12:5 Old Testament, KJV
Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year: ye shall take it out from the sheep, or from the goats:
Exodus 12:48 Old Testament, KJV
And when a stranger shall sojourn with thee, and will keep the passover to the LORD, let all his males be circumcised, and then let him come near and keep it; and he shall be as one that is born in the land: for no uncircumcised person shall eat thereof.
Exodus 13:12 Old Testament, KJV
That thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix, and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD's.
Exodus 13:15 Old Testament, KJV
And it came to pass, when Pharaoh would hardly let us go, that the LORD slew all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both the firstborn of man, and the firstborn of beast: therefore I sacrifice to the LORD all that openeth the matrix, being males; but all the firstborn of my children I redeem.
Leviticus 1:3 Old Testament, KJV
If his offering be a burnt sacrifice of the herd, let him offer a male without blemish: he shall offer it of his own voluntary will at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation before the LORD.
Leviticus 1:10 Old Testament, KJV
And if his offering be of the flocks, namely, of the sheep, or of the goats, for a burnt sacrifice; he shall bring it a male without blemish.
Leviticus 3:1 Old Testament, KJV
And if his oblation be a sacrifice of peace offering, if he offer it of the herd; whether it be a male or female, he shall offer it without blemish before the LORD.
Leviticus 3:6 Old Testament, KJV
And if his offering for a sacrifice of peace offering unto the LORD be of the flock; male or female, he shall offer it without blemish.
Leviticus 4:23 Old Testament, KJV
Or if his sin, wherein he hath sinned, come to his knowledge; he shall bring his offering, a kid of the goats, a male without blemish:
Leviticus 6:18 Old Testament, KJV
All the males among the children of Aaron shall eat of it. It shall be a statute for ever in your generations concerning the offerings of the LORD made by fire: every one that toucheth them shall be holy.
Leviticus 6:29 Old Testament, KJV
All the males among the priests shall eat thereof: it is most holy.
Leviticus 7:6 Old Testament, KJV
Every male among the priests shall eat thereof: it shall be eaten in the holy place: it is most holy.
Leviticus 12:2 Old Testament, KJV
Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, If a woman have conceived seed, and born a man child: then she shall be unclean seven days; according to the days of the separation for her infirmity shall she be unclean.
Leviticus 12:7 Old Testament, KJV
Who shall offer it before the LORD, and make an atonement for her; and she shall be cleansed from the issue of her blood. This is the law for her that hath born a male or a female.
Leviticus 15:33 Old Testament, KJV
And of her that is sick of her flowers, and of him that hath an issue, of the man, and of the woman, and of him that lieth with her that is unclean.
Leviticus 18:22 Old Testament, KJV
Thou shalt not lie with mankind, as with womankind: it is abomination.
Leviticus 20:13 Old Testament, KJV
If a man also lie with mankind, as he lieth with a woman, both of them have committed an abomination: they shall surely be put to death; their blood shall be upon them.
Leviticus 22:19 Old Testament, KJV
Ye shall offer at your own will a male without blemish, of the beeves, of the sheep, or of the goats.
Leviticus 27:3 Old Testament, KJV
And thy estimation shall be of the male from twenty years old even unto sixty years old, even thy estimation shall be fifty shekels of silver, after the shekel of the sanctuary.
Leviticus 27:5 Old Testament, KJV
And if it be from five years old even unto twenty years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male twenty shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Leviticus 27:6 Old Testament, KJV
And if it be from a month old even unto five years old, then thy estimation shall be of the male five shekels of silver, and for the female thy estimation shall be three shekels of silver.
Leviticus 27:7 Old Testament, KJV
And if it be from sixty years old and above; if it be a male, then thy estimation shall be fifteen shekels, and for the female ten shekels.
Numbers 1:2 Old Testament, KJV
Take ye the sum of all the congregation of the children of Israel, after their families, by the house of their fathers, with the number of their names, every male by their polls;
Numbers 1:20 Old Testament, KJV
And the children of Reuben, Israel's eldest son, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 1:22 Old Testament, KJV
Of the children of Simeon, by their generations, after their families, by the house of their fathers, those that were numbered of them, according to the number of the names, by their polls, every male from twenty years old and upward, all that were able to go forth to war;
Numbers 3:15 Old Testament, KJV
Number the children of Levi after the house of their fathers, by their families: every male from a month old and upward shalt thou number them.
Numbers 3:22 Old Testament, KJV
Those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, even those that were numbered of them were seven thousand and five hundred.
Numbers 3:28 Old Testament, KJV
In the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were eight thousand and six hundred, keeping the charge of the sanctuary.
Numbers 3:34 Old Testament, KJV
And those that were numbered of them, according to the number of all the males, from a month old and upward, were six thousand and two hundred.
Numbers 3:39 Old Testament, KJV
All that were numbered of the Levites, which Moses and Aaron numbered at the commandment of the LORD, throughout their families, all the males from a month old and upward, were twenty and two thousand.
Numbers 3:40 Old Testament, KJV
And the LORD said unto Moses, Number all the firstborn of the males of the children of Israel from a month old and upward, and take the number of their names.
Numbers 3:43 Old Testament, KJV
And all the firstborn males by the number of names, from a month old and upward, of those that were numbered of them, were twenty and two thousand two hundred and threescore and thirteen.
Numbers 5:3 Old Testament, KJV
Both male and female shall ye put out, without the camp shall ye put them; that they defile not their camps, in the midst whereof I dwell.
Numbers 18:10 Old Testament, KJV
In the most holy place shalt thou eat it; every male shall eat it: it shall be holy unto thee.
Numbers 26:62 Old Testament, KJV
And those that were numbered of them were twenty and three thousand, all males from a month old and upward: for they were not numbered among the children of Israel, because there was no inheritance given them among the children of Israel.
Numbers 31:7 Old Testament, KJV
And they warred against the Midianites, as the LORD commanded Moses; and they slew all the males.
Numbers 31:17 Old Testament, KJV
Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him.
Numbers 31:18 Old Testament, KJV
But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves.
Numbers 31:35 Old Testament, KJV
And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him.
Deuteronomy 4:16 Old Testament, KJV
Lest ye corrupt yourselves, and make you a graven image, the similitude of any figure, the likeness of male or female,
Deuteronomy 15:19 Old Testament, KJV
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.
Joshua 5:4 Old Testament, KJV
And this is the cause why Joshua did circumcise: All the people that came out of Egypt, that were males, even all the men of war, died in the wilderness by the way, after they came out of Egypt.
Joshua 17:2 Old Testament, KJV
There was also a lot for the rest of the children of Manasseh by their families; for the children of Abiezer, and for the children of Helek, and for the children of Asriel, and for the children of Shechem, and for the children of Hepher, and for the children of Shemida: these were the male children of Manasseh the son of Joseph by their families.
Judges 21:11 Old Testament, KJV
And this is the thing that ye shall do, Ye shall utterly destroy every male, and every woman that hath lain by man.
Judges 21:12 Old Testament, KJV
And they found among the inhabitants of Jabeshgilead four hundred young virgins, that had known no man by lying with any male: and they brought them unto the camp to Shiloh, which is in the land of Canaan.
1 Kings 11:15 Old Testament, KJV
For it came to pass, when David was in Edom, and Joab the captain of the host was gone up to bury the slain, after he had smitten every male in Edom;
1 Kings 11:16 Old Testament, KJV
(For six months did Joab remain there with all Israel, until he had cut off every male in Edom:)
2 Chronicles 31:16 Old Testament, KJV
Beside their genealogy of males, from three years old and upward, even unto every one that entereth into the house of the LORD, his daily portion for their service in their charges according to their courses;
2 Chronicles 31:19 Old Testament, KJV
Also of the sons of Aaron the priests, which were in the fields of the suburbs of their cities, in every several city, the men that were expressed by name, to give portions to all the males among the priests, and to all that were reckoned by genealogies among the Levites.
Ezra 8:3 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons of Shechaniah, of the sons of Pharosh; Zechariah: and with him were reckoned by genealogy of the males an hundred and fifty.
Ezra 8:4 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons of Pahathmoab; Elihoenai the son of Zerahiah, and with him two hundred males.
Ezra 8:5 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons of Shechaniah; the son of Jahaziel, and with him three hundred males.
Ezra 8:6 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons also of Adin; Ebed the son of Jonathan, and with him fifty males.
Ezra 8:7 Old Testament, KJV
And of the sons of Elam; Jeshaiah the son of Athaliah, and with him seventy males.
Ezra 8:8 Old Testament, KJV
And of the sons of Shephatiah; Zebadiah the son of Michael, and with him fourscore males.
Ezra 8:9 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons of Joab; Obadiah the son of Jehiel, and with him two hundred and eighteen males.
Ezra 8:10 Old Testament, KJV
And of the sons of Shelomith; the son of Josiphiah, and with him an hundred and threescore males.
Ezra 8:11 Old Testament, KJV
And of the sons of Bebai; Zechariah the son of Bebai, and with him twenty and eight males.
Ezra 8:12 Old Testament, KJV
And of the sons of Azgad; Johanan the son of Hakkatan, and with him an hundred and ten males.
Ezra 8:13 Old Testament, KJV
And of the last sons of Adonikam, whose names are these, Eliphelet, Jeiel, and Shemaiah, and with them threescore males.
Ezra 8:14 Old Testament, KJV
Of the sons also of Bigvai; Uthai, and Zabbud, and with them seventy males.
Isaiah 66:7 Old Testament, KJV
Before she travailed, she brought forth; before her pain came, she was delivered of a man child.
Jeremiah 20:15 Old Testament, KJV
Cursed be the man who brought tidings to my father, saying, A man child is born unto thee; making him very glad.
Jeremiah 30:6 Old Testament, KJV
Ask ye now, and see whether a man doth travail with child? wherefore do I see every man with his hands on his loins, as a woman in travail, and all faces are turned into paleness?
Ezekiel 16:17 Old Testament, KJV
Thou hast also taken thy fair jewels of my gold and of my silver, which I had given thee, and madest to thyself images of men, and didst commit whoredom with them,
Malachi 1:14 Old Testament, KJV
But cursed be the deceiver, which hath in his flock a male, and voweth, and sacrificeth unto the LORD a corrupt thing: for I am a great King, saith the LORD of hosts, and my name is dreadful among the heathen.

All Indexed Usage Links

Every indexed verse link for Strong's H2145, grouped by book.

Genesis 14 usages, Old Testament
Exodus 4 usages, Old Testament
Leviticus 18 usages, Old Testament
Numbers 17 usages, Old Testament
Deuteronomy 2 usages, Old Testament
Joshua 2 usages, Old Testament
Judges 2 usages, Old Testament
1 Kings 2 usages, Old Testament
2 Chronicles 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezra 12 usages, Old Testament
Isaiah 1 usage, Old Testament
Jeremiah 2 usages, Old Testament
Ezekiel 1 usage, Old Testament
Malachi 1 usage, Old Testament

Strong's H2145 FAQ

What does zakar (זָכָר) mean?

Zakar (Strong's H2145) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "male". zakar (zaw-kawr') adj. 1. (properly) remembered, i.e. a male (of man or animals, as being the most noteworthy sex) [from H2142]

How many times is zakar (זָכָר) used in the Bible?

This page currently indexes 80 linked usages for Strong's H2145 across 14 books.

Where can I study zakar (זָכָר) in context?

Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H2145 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.

What English words translate zakar (זָכָר)?

The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as male, man, were, be, is, and are. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.