סָרָה
çârâh · H5627 · Hebrew · 8 occurrences
Meanings
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ceasing
Process by which an event comes to an end
ExamplesIsaiah 14:6 Which used to strike the peoples in fury with unceasing strokes, Which subdued the nations in anger with unrestrained persecution.
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rebellion, stubbornness, obstinacy
State by which humans stand up to or oppose the authority of a person or ruler or deity
ExamplesDeuteronomy 13:5 “But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken falsely against the LORD your God who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slavery, to drive you from the way in which the LORD your God commanded you to walk. So you shall eliminate the evil from among you.
Deuteronomy 19:16 “If a malicious witness rises up against a person to testify against him of wrongdoing,
Isaiah 1:5 Where will you be stricken again, As you continue in your rebellion? The entire head is sick And the entire heart is faint.
How it’s used In 2 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
What is done to itIt is the object
7 occurrences in 4 groups
- דָבַרto speak, to say 4
- יָסַףto add 1
- עָמַקto make deep, to go deep 1
- עָנָהto answer 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
1 occurrences in 1 groups
- בִּלְתִּיnot 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 1 word
- מְרִי mᵉrîy · H4805 · rebellious
- Both words denote rebellion, defiance and unwillingness to obey, and refer to acts of rebellion or revolt that can substitute in context.
Semantic domains 2 entries
- Engage002003003011
- A broader attested sense of persisting or continuing without ceasing, as when Isaiah asks Judah why it continues in its rebellion, or describes an unrestrained persecution without ceasing.
- Unwilling002001002031
- Its more frequent sense, willful rebellion or turning away from the LORD, as repeatedly warned against in the laws concerning false prophets and malicious witnesses, and repeatedly charged against Judah by Isaiah.
Word family 3 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H5627. sarah סָרָה noun feminine a turning aside, defection, apostasy, withdrawal; —…
סָרָה noun feminine a turning aside, defection, apostasy, withdrawal; — always absolute ׳ס; —
1 defection, used apparently of any moral or legal offence Deu 19:16, so probably Isa 59:13 (+ שָׁ֑קֶר דִּבְרֵי עשֶׁק,).
2 apostasy, Deu 13:6; Isa 1:5; Isa 31:6; Jer 28:16; Jer 29:32.
3 בִּלְתִּי סָרָה non-withdrawal Isa 14:6 (compare verb, Isa 14:25; Amo 6:7).
סִרָה see הַסּ ׳בּוֺר above יסור, only in יסורי Jer 17:13 Kt, but see Qr סור
Qal Participle
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 2 entries
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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