Lexical Definition

‎שֹׁר‎ shôr (shore) umbilical cord ^H:N-M
from ‎שָׁרַר‎; (compare ‎שָׁרִיר‎)

navel.

• a string (as twisted ), i.e. (specifically) the umbilical cord (also figuratively, as the centre of strength)

1) umbilical cord, navel, navel-string

Brown-Driver-Briggs

[‎שֹׁר‎] noun [masculine] navel-string (compare Aramaic ‎שׁוּרָא‎ Ezek 16:4 ᵑ7, , Arabic , all id.); — suffix ‎לאֹ כָרַּת שָׁרֵּךְ‎ Ezek 16:4 (Ges^{«GKC:22s»§ 22s} Kö^{ii. 1. 45}) thy navel-string was nut cut; questioned are: ‎שָׁרֶּ֑ךָ‎ Prov 3:8 (De and others navel, synechd. for body, || ‎עַצְמוֺתֶתךָ‎; ᵐ5 τῷ σώματι; σου, compare ᵑ6, Clericus Bi Frankenb ‎בְּשָֽׂרְךָ‎, Ew Hi Kmp and others ‎שְׁאֵרְךָ‎, Toy either); ‎שָׂרְרֵךְ‎ Song 7:3* (ᵐ5 ὀμφαλάς σοὺ || ‎בִּטְנֵךְ‎), = ‎שָׁרֵּךְ‎ Thes and others; now often interpreted as = vulva, compare Arabic secret part, Hi Stickel Buhl Öttli, noticed also by Thes, but Arabism dubious, see Bu.

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