שֹׁרֶר“navel”The word shorer is the longer of the two spellings of the Hebrew noun for the navel, the small hollow at the center of the abdomen, and behind it the cord that once joined a child to its mother there. It is the spelling used in the Song of Songs, where the woman's body is praised part by part and this word is compared to a rounded bowl of mixed wine. It means exactly what the shorter spelling shor means, the form found in Ezekiel and Proverbs: one noun written two ways, listed under a single heading in the standard reference dictionaries, so the two are worth studying together rather than apart.