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Lexicon :: Strong's H5516 - sîsrā'

Aa
סִיסְרָא
Transliteration
sîsrā'
Pronunciation
see-ser-aw'
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Part of Speech
proper masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
Of uncertain derivation
Strong’s Definitions

סִיסְרָא Çîyçᵉrâʼ, see-ser-aw'; of uncertain derivation; Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim:—Sisera.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x

The KJV translates Strong's H5516 in the following manner: Sisera (21x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 21x
The KJV translates Strong's H5516 in the following manner: Sisera (21x).

  1. Sisera = "battle array"

    1. the conquering general under king Jabin of Hazor and slain by Jael

    2. ancestor of a family of temple slaves who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
סִיסְרָא Çîyçᵉrâʼ, see-ser-aw'; of uncertain derivation; Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim:—Sisera.
STRONGS H5516: Abbreviations
סִיסְרָא 21 proper name, masculine (GFMJudges 4:2; PAOS xix (1898), 160 compare Hittite names in -sira);—
1. general of Jabin, king of Hazor Judges 4:2 + 12 times Judges 4; apparently himself king Judges 5:20, 26, 28, 30; compare 1 Samuel 12:9; Psalm 83:10; — on ס׳ see GFMJu, 107 ff.; PAOS l.c.; Greek Version of the LXX Σ(ε)ισαρα.
†2. בְּנֵיסִֿיסְרָא returned exiles, Ezra 2:53 = Nehemiah 7:55; Greek Version of the LXX Σεισαραθ, Σισαρα, etc.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Judges

4; 4:2; 4:2; 5:20; 5:26; 5:28; 5:30

1 Samuel

12:9

Ezra

2:53

Nehemiah

7:55

Psalms

83:10

H5516

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H5516 matches the Hebrew סִיסְרָא (sîsrā'),
which occurs 21 times in 19 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2 - And the Lord gave them up into the hands of Jabin, king of Canaan, who was ruling in Hazor; the captain of his army was Sisera, who was living in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:7 - And I will make Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his war-carriages and his forces, come against you at the river Kishon, where I will give him into your hands.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - And she said, I will certainly go with you: though you will get no honour in your undertaking, for the Lord will give Sisera into the hands of a woman. So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:12 - And word was given to Sisera that Barak, the son of Abinoam, had gone up to Mount Tabor.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:13 - So Sisera got together all his war-carriages, nine hundred war-carriages of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles as far as the river Kishon.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - Then Deborah said to Barak, Up! for today the Lord has given Sisera into your hands: has not the Lord gone out before you? So Barak went down from Mount Tabor and ten thousand men after him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - And the Lord sent fear on Sisera and all his war-carriages and all his army before Barak; and Sisera got down from his war-carriage and went in flight on foot.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - But Barak went after the war-carriages and the army as far as Harosheth of the Gentiles; and all Sisera's army was put to the sword; not a man got away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - But Sisera went in flight on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite; for there was peace between Jabin, king of Hazor, and the family of Heber the Kenite.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - And Jael went out to Sisera, and said to him, Come in, my lord, come in to me without fear. So he went into her tent, and she put a cover over him.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - Then Jael went out, and meeting Barak going after Sisera, said to him, Come, and I will let you see the man you are searching for. So he came into her tent and saw, and there was Sisera stretched out dead with the tent-pin in his head.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - The stars from heaven were fighting; from their highways they were fighting against Sisera.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:26 - She put out her hand to the tent-pin, and her right hand to the workman's hammer; and she gave Sisera a blow, crushing his head, wounding and driving through his brow.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - Looking out from the window she gave a cry, the mother of Sisera was crying out through the window, Why is his carriage so long in coming? When will the noise of his wheels be sounding?

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Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - Are they not getting, are they not parting the goods among them: a young girl or two to every man; and to Sisera robes of coloured needlework, worked in fair colours on this side and on that, for the neck of the queen?

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Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - But they were false to the Lord their God, and he gave them up into the hands of Sisera, captain of the army of Jabin, king of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the king of Moab, who made war against them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:53

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:53 - The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:55

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:55 - The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,

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Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:9 - Do to them what you did to the Midianites; what you did to Sisera and Jabin, at the stream of Kishon:
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