basar

The word basar, flesh, is the euphemism for genitalia used at the beginning of Leviticus 15.

Female Purity (Niddah). leBeit Yoreh 2009

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As a result, the Hebrew word for meat--basar--usually denotes the flesh of mammals and birds, but not fish.

Archive 2008-05-01 Kylopod 2008

As a result, the Hebrew word for meat--basar--usually denotes the flesh of mammals and birds, but not fish.

Manimal Kylopod 2008

An Orthodox person who I still count as a friend once told me that vegetarianism is to be avoided because G-d gave us the halachos of basar ve-chalav, shechittah, etc. — i.e., the existence of these halachos implies that He wants us to use them.

Vegetarians are “supremely un-Jewish” | Jewschool 2007

BTW, that bit about no joy without basar- many rabbinic authorites consider that to be a reference to another kind of meat wink, wink.

Vegetarians are “supremely un-Jewish” | Jewschool 2007

The suffix in mippenehem refers back to the collective basar.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

Critics call kol hayqum ( "all existence") 7: 4, 23, a mark of J, whereas P is said to prefer the expression kol basar ( "all flesh") 6: 12, 13; 7: 21.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

"Flesh" (basar) here refers to all forms of life as perishable.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942

Man is no longer simply sinful, as he has been right along since the Fall; the race has also as a whole practically sunk to the level of being "flesh" (basar), just plain, ordinary, weak and sinful stock, abandoned to a life of sin.

Exposition of Genesis: Volume 1 1892-1972 1942