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Lexicon :: Strong's H8297 - śāray

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שָׂרַי
Transliteration
śāray
Pronunciation
saw-rah'-ee
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Strong’s Definitions

שָׂרַי Sâray, saw-rah'-ee; from H8269; dominative; Sarai, the wife of Abraham:—Sarai.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x

The KJV translates Strong's H8297 in the following manner: Sarai (17x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 17x
The KJV translates Strong's H8297 in the following manner: Sarai (17x).

  1. Sarai = "princess"

    1. original name of Sarah the wife of Abram or Abraham

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׂרַי Sâray, saw-rah'-ee; from H8269; dominative; Sarai, the wife of Abraham:—Sarai.
STRONGS H8297: Abbreviations
† שָׂרַי proper name, feminine wife of Abram (NöZMG xiii (1888). 484 Ges§ 80l Köii. 1. 427 make = foregoing H8283, with old feminine ending ַ י; > LagBN 92, Anm. *, emphasizing different in Greek Version of the LXX, derived from a √ bdb097901, and compare bdb097902, name of a barren mountain; compare RS יִשְׂרָאֵל above, below I. שׂרה); — Greek Version of the LXX Σαρα; — Genesis 11:30 (J), Genesis 11:31 (P), Genesis 12:5, 11, 17; Genesis 16:1, 2, 3, 5, 6 (twice in verse); Genesis 16:8 (twice in verse) (all J), Genesis 17:15 (P); שָׂרָ֑י Genesis 11:29 (J), Genesis 16:2 (J), Genesis 17:15 (P).
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

11:29; 11:30; 11:31; 12:5; 12:11; 12:17; 16:1; 16:2; 16:2; 16:3; 16:5; 16:6; 16:8; 17:15; 17:15

H8297

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Strong's Number H8297 matches the Hebrew שָׂרַי (śāray),
which occurs 17 times in 13 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:29

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:29 - Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. The name of Abram’s wife was Sarai; H8297 and the name of Nahor’s wife was Milcah, the daughter of Haran, the father of Milcah [fn]and Iscah.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:30

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:30 - Sarai H8297 was barren; she had no child.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 11:31

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 11:31 - Terah took Abram his son, and Lot the son of Haran, his grandson, and Sarai H8297 his daughter-in-law, his son Abram’s wife; and they went out [fn]together from Ur of the Chaldeans in order to enter the land of Canaan; and they went as far as Haran, and [fn]settled there.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:5 - Abram took Sarai H8297 his wife and Lot his nephew, and all their possessions which they had accumulated, and the [fn]persons which they had acquired in Haran, and they [fn]set out for the land of Canaan; thus they came to the land of Canaan.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:11

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:11 - It came about when he [fn]came near to Egypt, that he said to Sarai H8297 his wife, “See now, I know that you are a [fn]beautiful woman;

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 12:17

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 12:17 - But the LORD struck Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, H8297 Abram’s wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:1

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:1 - Now Sarai, H8297 Abram’s wife had borne him no children, and she had an Egyptian maid whose name was Hagar.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:2

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:2 - So Sarai H8297 said to Abram, “Now behold, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go in to my maid; perhaps I will [fn]obtain children through her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai. H8297

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:3

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:3 - After Abram had [fn]lived ten years in the land of Canaan, Abram’s wife Sarai H8297 took Hagar the Egyptian, her maid, and gave her to her husband Abram as his wife.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:5

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:5 - And Sarai H8297 said to Abram, “May the wrong done me be upon you. I gave my maid into your [fn]arms, but when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her [fn]sight. May the LORD judge between [fn]you and me.”

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:6

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:6 - But Abram said to Sarai, H8297 “Behold, your maid is in your [fn]power; do to her what is good in your [fn]sight.” So Sarai H8297 treated her harshly, and she fled from her presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 16:8

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 16:8 - He said, “Hagar, Sarai’s H8297 maid, where have you come from and where are you going?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the presence of my mistress Sarai.” H8297

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Unchecked Copy Box Gen 17:15

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai H8297 your wife, you shall not call her name Sarai, H8297 but [fn]Sarah shall be her name.
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