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שְׂרָיָה

Sᵉrâyâh · H8304 · Hebrew · proper noun · 20 occurrences

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This name belongs to 8 people

Meanings

  1. Seraiah

    Seraiah, also known as Shavsha, a secretary in the time of King David

    Examples

    2 Samuel 8:17 Zadok the son of Ahitub and Ahimelech the son of Abiathar were priests, and Seraiah was scribe.

  2. Seraiah

    Seraiah, son of Azariah, high priest in the time of King Zedekiah

    Examples

    2 Kings 25:18 Then the captain of the bodyguards took Seraiah the chief priest and Zephaniah the second priest, with the three doorkeepers.

  3. Seraiah

    Seraiah, son of Tanhumeth, an army officer of Judah at the time of the exile

    Examples

    2 Kings 25:23 When all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah, namely, Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, Johanan the son of Kareah, Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.

  4. Seraiah

    Seraiah, also known as Azariah, son of Hilkiah, a priest after the exile

    Examples

    Nehemiah 11:11 Seraiah the son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the overseer of the house of God,

  5. Seraiah

    Man; son of Kenaz; tribe of Judah

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 4:13 Now the sons of Kenaz were Othniel and Seraiah. And the sons of Othniel were Hathath and Meonothai.

  6. Seraiah

    Man; son of Asiel; tribe of Simeon

    Examples

    1 Chronicles 4:35 Joel, Jehu the son of Joshibiah, the son of Seraiah, the son of Asiel,

  7. Seraiah

    A priest who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

    Examples

    Ezra 2:2 These came with Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the number of the men of the people of Israel:

  8. Seraiah

    A signatory to Nehemiah's covenant document after the exile

    Examples

    Nehemiah 10:2 Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,

  9. Seraiah

    Seraiah, head of a family of priests after the exile

    Examples

    Nehemiah 12:12 Now in the days of Joiakim, the priests, the heads of fathers’ households were: of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;

  10. Seraiah

    Seraiah, son of Neriah and brother of Baruch, an official in the time of King Zedekiah

    Examples

    Jeremiah 51:59 The command that Jeremiah the prophet gave Seraiah the son of Neriah, the grandson of Mahseiah, when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah to Babylon in the fourth year of his reign. (And Seraiah was quartermaster.)

How it’s used In 7 roles

Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.

the word studied the word it goes with

Named alongside itApposition

9 occurrences in 3 groups

What it doesIt is the subject

2 occurrences in 1 groups

What is done to itIt is the object

6 occurrences in 4 groups

What it is said to bePredicate

3 occurrences in 3 groups

What is said to be itIt is the predicate

1 occurrences in 1 groups

After prepositionsPrepositional phrases

2 occurrences in 2 groups

In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive

2 occurrences in 1 groups

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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Semantic domains 1 entry
Names of People003001007
This proper name identifies more than one Seraiah, including the scribe under David in 2 Samuel 8:17 and the chief priest taken captive at the fall of Jerusalem in 2 Kings 25:18.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8304. Serayah or Serayahu שְׂרָיָה(וּׅ proper name, masculine (׳י persisteth DrHast. DB.…
H8304. Serayah
or Serayahu שְׂרָיָה(וּׅ proper name, masculine (׳י persisteth DrHast. DB. ii. 530 JACOB); — usually Σαραια(ς); — שְׂרָיָה:
1 secretary of David 2Sa 8:17, but ᵐ5B Ασα, || שיא 2Sa 20:25 Kt (שְׁוָא Qr), שַׁוְשָׁא 1Ch 18:16 (in both Ἰησοῦς, ᵐ5L Σουσα), שִׁישָׁא 1Ki 4:3 (Σαβα, A Σεισα, ᵐ5L Σαφατ); originally in all probably ששא We Dr Klo (Sausa), HPS (שושא), Now (Šoša), Bu.
2 chief priest 2Ki 25:18 = Jer 52:24.
3 a captain 2Ki 25:23; Jer 40:8; Jer 51:59 (twice in verse); Jer 51:61.
4. a. son of Kenaz 1Ch 4:13-14,.
b. name in Simeon 1Ch 4:35.
c. Levite name 1 Chronicles 5:40 (twice in verse).
5. a. companion of Zerubbabel Ezr 2:2.
b. father of Ezra Ezr 7:1.
c. one sealed Neh 10:3.
d. priest Neh 11:11; Neh 12:1, Neh 12:12.
6 שְׂרָיָהוּ, officer of king Jehoiakim, Jer 36:26, τῷ Σαρεα.
II. שׂרה (√ of following; = rule ? compare שׂרר).

Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain

Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Names of People20 occurrences

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

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