שָׂרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8283

Sarah — used 38 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

Meaning

OpenScriptures lexical index

Sarah tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂרָה⁴: n.pr.f. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.f. wife of Abraham (princess);—Σαρρα: Gn 17:15 (where formal change from שָׂרַי), v 17, 19, 21; 21:1b, 3; 23:1(×2), 2(×2), 19; 25:10, 12; 49:31 (all P), 18:6 + 9 times 18, 21:1a, 2a; 24:36, 67 (all J), 20:2(×2), 14, 16, 18; 21:6, 7, 9, 12 (all E); an ancestress of Hebrews Is 51:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 25 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (19 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sarah (29); of Sarah (5); [is] Sarah (2).

In the verses

Genesis 21:9 · tree →

וַתֵּ֨רֶא שָׂרָ֜ה אֶֽת־בֶּן־הָגָ֧ר הַמִּצְרִ֛ית אֲשֶׁר־יָלְדָ֥ה לְאַבְרָהָ֖ם מְצַחֵֽק׃

Word for word: and she.saw Sarah (et) the.son of.Hagar the Egyptian whom she.had.borne to Abraham mocking

JPS 1917: And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.

Genesis 18:9 · tree →

וַיֹּאמְר֣וּ אֵׄלָׄ֔יׄוׄאַיֵּ֖ה שָׂרָ֣ה אִשְׁתֶּ֑ךָ וַיֹּ֖אמֶר הִנֵּ֥ה בָאֹֽהֶל׃

Word for word: and they.said to him where? [is].Sarah wife your and he.said there! in the tent

JPS 1917: And they said unto him: 'Where is Sarah thy wife?' And he said: 'Behold, in the tent.'

On Mova

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Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).

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