שָׂרַי

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8297

Sarai — used 17 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

Sarai tree →

Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂרַי²: n.pr.f. tree →

The whole BDB entry

n.pr.f. wife of Abram (NöZMG xiii (1888), 484 Ges§ 801 Köii. 1, 427 make = foregoing, with old fem. ending י—ַ; >LagBN 92, Anm.*, emphasizing diff. in 𝔊, der.froma √ شرى, and cp. شراة, name of a barren mt.; cf. RS יִשְׂרָאֵל supr., sub I. שׂרה);—𝔊 Σαρα;—Gn 11:30 (J), v 31 (P), 12:5, 11, 17; 16:1, 2, 3, 5, 6(×2), 8(×2) (all J), 17:15 (P); שָׂרָ֑י 11:29 (J), 16:2 (J), 17:15 (P).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 13 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (22 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (18 candidates)

Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sarai (13); of Sarai (3); [was] Sarai (1).

In the verses

Genesis 11:30 · tree →

וַתְּהִ֥י שָׂרַ֖י עֲקָרָ֑ה אֵ֥ין לָ֖הּ וָלָֽד׃

Word for word: and she.was Sarai barren there.[belonged].not to her a.child

JPS 1917: And Sarai was barren; she had no child.

Genesis 12:17 · tree →

וַיְנַגַּ֨ע יְהוָ֧ה ׀ אֶת־פַּרְעֹ֛ה נְגָעִ֥ים גְּדֹלִ֖ים וְאֶת־בֵּית֑וֹ עַל־דְּבַ֥ר שָׂרַ֖י אֵ֥שֶׁת אַבְרָֽם׃

Word for word: and he.struck Yahweh (et) Pharaoh plagues great and (et) house his on the.matter of.Sarai the.wife of.Abram

JPS 1917: And the LORD plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai Abram's wife.

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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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