Remnant

rem'-nant: Remnant is the translation of yether, "what is left over" (Deut 3:11; Deut 28:54; Josh 12:4, etc.); of she'-ar, "the rest" (Ezra 3:8 the King James Version; Isa 10:20; Isa 10:21; Isa 10:22; Isa 11:16, etc.; Zech 1:4); more frequently of she'-erith, "residue," etc. (2 Kgs 19:4; 2 Kgs 19:31; 2 Chr 34:9; Ezra 9:14; Isa 14:30, etc.). As the translation of the last-mentioned two words, "remnant" has a special significance in the prophecies of Isaiah, as denoting "a holy seed," or spiritual kernel, of the nation which should survive impending judgment and become the germ of the people of God, being blessed of God and made a blessing (compare Mic 2:12; Mic 4:7; Mic 5:7; Mic 5:8; Mic 7:18; also Ze 2:7; 3:13; Hag 1:12; Hag 1:14; Zech 8:6; Joel 2:32). Paul, in Rom 9:27, quotes from Isa 10:22 f, "the remnant (kataleimma, "what is left over"] shall be saved"; compare also Rom 11:5 (where the word is leimma) with 2 Kgs 19:4. Several other Hebrew words are less frequently translated "remnant": 'ahar, "after"; yathar, "to be left over," etc.; in the New Testament (the King James Version) we have also loipos, "left," "remaining" (Matt 22:6; Rev 11:13, etc.).

For "remnant" the Revised Version (British and American) has "overhanging part" (Exod 26:12), "rest" (Lev 14:18, etc.); on the other hand gives "remnant" for "posterity" (Gen 45:7), for "rest" (Josh 10:20; 1 Chr 4:43; Isa 10:19), for "residue" (Hag 2:2; Zech 8:11), etc.

W. L. Walker