שהר

From Proto-Semitic *śahr- (“moon”). Compare Aramaic סהרא (sahrā, “moon”), Arabic شَهْر (šahr, “month, new moon”), Old South Arabian 𐩦𐩠𐩧 (s²hr, “beginning of the lunar month”), Ge'ez ሣህር (śahr, “moon, first day of the month”).

Possibly initially a dominant form of סַהַר. The form שַׂהַר survived through its derived term, שַׂהֲרוֹן (saharón, śahărṓn, “an ornament shaped like a small moon”, literally “little moon”).

• (Tiberian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.harˤ/ [ˈsaː.haʀ]
• (Ashkenazi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.haʁ/
• (Mizrahi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.har/
• (Sephardi Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsä.häɾ/, (Greek and Turkish) [ˈsä.äɾ]
• (Italian Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.ar/
• (Yemenite Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsæ.hær/ [ˈsæ(ː).hæ(ː)r]
• (Modern Israeli Hebrew) IPA^(key): /ˈsa.haʁ/ [ˈsä.äʁ̞], [sä(ː)ʁ̞]

שַׂהַר • (sáhar, śáhar) m (plural indefinite שְׂהָרִים, singular construct שַׂהַר־, plural construct שַׂהֲרֵי־) [pattern: קֶטֶל]

1. alternative form of סַהַר (sáhar)

• H7720 in Strong, James (1979), Strong’s Exhaustive Concordance to the Bible
• סהר - האקדמיה ללשון העברית
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “שַׂהַר”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[1], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 643
• Klein, Ernest (1987), “שַׂהֲרוֹן”, in A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the Hebrew Language for Readers of English‎^[2], Jerusalem: Carta, →ISBN, page 643
• Leslau, Wolf (1987), “śāhr”, in Comparative Dictionary of Geʿez (Classical Ethiopic), Wiesbaden: Otto Harrassowitz, →ISBN, reprinted 1991, 1997 and 2006