A remainder or residual (surviving, final) portion
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H7611 names a remainder or surviving portion, often people left after judgment, war, exile, or another severe reduction, and sometimes the group through whom hope continues. The noun carries the history that produced the remainder, so a remnant may be endangered, chastened, preserved, repentant, or still accountable rather than automatically pure.
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H7611 names a remainder or surviving portion, often people left after judgment, war, exile, or another severe reduction, and sometimes the group through whom hope continues. The noun carries the history that produced the remainder, so a remnant may be endangered, chastened, preserved, repentant, or still accountable rather than automatically pure.
The BSB source-word alignment has 66 aligned rows for this entry. Common renderings include the remnant (24), remnant (7), a remnant (4), the rest (4), and the remnant (3).
The source-word alignment first shows this entry at Genesis 45:7. Its strongest book concentrations include Jeremiah (24), Ezekiel (7), Isaiah (6), Micah (5).
H7611 names a remainder or surviving portion, often people left after judgment, war, exile, or another severe reduction, and sometimes the group through whom hope continues. The noun carries the history that produced the remainder, so a remnant may be endangered, chastened, preserved, repentant, or still accountable rather than automatically pure. In 2Kgs. 19.
31, Isaiah promises that a remnant will go out from Jerusalem and that the zeal of the Lord will accomplish the deliverance. In 2Chr. 36. 20, those who survive the sword are carried to Babylon and serve there until Persian rule, so survival includes exile and loss. H7611 opens teaching on hope after devastation without minimizing the losses that make a remnant small, wounded, displaced, or dependent on mercy.
It corrects remnant pride that treats minority status as proof of purity and disaster teaching that speaks of preservation without grief, justice, or repentance. H7611 joins grief and hope: a remnant escapes from Jerusalem and takes root, survivors of Babylonian conquest live under exile, and Amos calls a morally compromised people to seek good because the Lord may show grace to Josephs remnant.
For H7611, responsible teaching keeps lexical meaning, passage context, canonical synthesis, and present application distinguishable. The noun does not guarantee that every small group is faithful, erase the dead and displaced, or authorize survivors to claim unaccountable spiritual status.
H7611 appears across passages that develop survival after judgment, exile, preservation, repentance, renewed hope, and responsibility among those who remain. For H7611, the immediate setting decides which part of the range is active, so the witnesses must remain distinct rather than being merged into one formula.
For a remnant will go forth from Jerusalem, and survivors from Mount Zion. The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will accomplish this.
Isaiah promises that a remnant will go out from Jerusalem and that the zeal of the Lord will accomplish the deliverance.
Those who escaped the sword were carried by Nebuchadnezzar into exile in Babylon, and they became servants to him and his sons until the kingdom of Persia came to power.
Those who survive the sword are carried to Babylon and serve there until Persian rule, so survival includes exile and loss.
Hate evil and love good; establish justice in the gate. Perhaps the Lord, the God of Hosts, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
Amos commands hatred of evil, love of good, and justice at the gate while holding out possible grace for Josephs remnant.
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Hebrew word. Surviving remnant chosen by God for covenant continuation and future restoration after judgment
Surviving remnant chosen by God for covenant continuation and future restoration after judgment
a remainder or residual (surviving, final) portion BDB: rest Usage: that had escaped, be left, posterity, remain(-der), remnant, residue, rest.
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Selected passage-level study witnesses for this word. This section is not the full occurrence list.
Showing 4 selected witnesses from 66 lexical occurrence verses.
שְׁאֵרִית is built from this root:
It anchors Micah’s theology of hope, showing that God’s covenant purposes endure beyond national collapse.Isaiah 37:1-7
It underscores that restoration arises from God’s preserving grace amid judgment.Micah 2:12-13
It reinforces continuity of covenant promise and mission under messianic rule.Micah 4:6-8
Highlights covenant preservation amid threat.Micah 5:6-9
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H7611 joins grief and hope: a remnant escapes from Jerusalem and takes root, survivors of Babylonian conquest live under exile, and Amos calls a morally compromised people to seek good because the Lord may show grace to Josephs remnant. H7611 names a remainder or surviving portion, often people left after judgment, war, exile, or another severe reduction, and sometimes the group through whom hope continues.
The selected witnesses keep the teaching concrete: 2Kgs. 19. 31 shows that isaiah promises that a remnant will go out from Jerusalem and that the zeal of the Lord will accomplish the deliverance. , while 2Chr. 36. 20 shows that those who survive the sword are carried to Babylon and serve there until Persian rule, so survival includes exile and loss.. Amos. 5.
15 Adds that amos commands hatred of evil, love of good, and justice at the gate while holding out possible grace for Josephs remnant.. H7611 opens teaching on hope after devastation without minimizing the losses that make a remnant small, wounded, displaced, or dependent on mercy. It corrects remnant pride that treats minority status as proof of purity and disaster teaching that speaks of preservation without grief, justice, or repentance.
A church teaching H7611 faithfully will name both the promise and the boundary carried by these contexts, attend to vulnerable hearers, and refuse to make the lexical item prove more than its passages support. The noun does not guarantee that every small group is faithful, erase the dead and displaced, or authorize survivors to claim unaccountable spiritual status.
2Kgs.19.31
H7611 is a Hebrew noun for a remaining or final portion; its associations with survival and future hope come from narrative and prophetic settings rather than from an automatic technical meaning.
Prophets use remnant language within judgment and promised restoration. Paul later discusses a remnant according to grace, preserving divine mercy and covenant purpose while refusing boasting by either the preserved group or outsiders.