'Sheer' in the Bible

For he could see that it was out of sheer spite that the High Priests had handed Him over.

He has demonstrated power with his arm; he has scattered those whose pride wells up from the sheer arrogance of their hearts.

I tell you, even though the man inside will not get up and give him anything because he is his friend, yet because of the first man's sheer persistence he will get up and give him whatever he needs.

While they still did not believe it because of their joy and amazement, He asked them, “Do you have anything here to eat?”

For the message of the cross is foolishness [absurd and illogical] to those who are perishing and spiritually dead [because they reject it], but to us who are being saved [by God’s grace] it is [the manifestation of] the power of God.