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Lexicon :: Strong's H8283 - śārâ

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שָׂרָה
Transliteration
śārâ
Pronunciation
saw-raw'
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Part of Speech
proper feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
The same as שָׂרָה (H8282)
Strong’s Definitions

שָׂרָה Sârâh, saw-raw'; the same as H8282; Sarah, Abraham's wife:—Sarah.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x

The KJV translates Strong's H8283 in the following manner: Sarah (38x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 38x
The KJV translates Strong's H8283 in the following manner: Sarah (38x).
  1. Sarah = "noblewoman"

    1. wife of Abraham and mother of Isaac

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׂרָה Sârâh, saw-raw'; the same as H8282; Sarah, Abraham's wife:—Sarah.
STRONGS H8283: Abbreviations
II. שָׂרָה 37 proper name, feminine wife of Abraham (princess); — Σαρρα: Genesis 17:15 (where formal change from שָׂרַי), Genesis 17:17; Genesis 17:19; Genesis 17:21; Genesis 21:1b. 3; Genesis 23:1 (twice in verse); Genesis 23:2 (twice in verse); Genesis 23:19; Genesis 25:10, 12; Genesis 49:31 (all P), Genesis 18:6 + 9 times 18, Genesis 21:1a. 2a Genesis 24:36, 67 (all J), Genesis 20:2 (twice in verse); Genesis 20:14, 16, 18; Genesis 21:6, 7, 9, 12 (all E); as ancestress of Hebrews Isaiah 51:2.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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H8283

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H8283 matches the Hebrew שָׂרָה (śārâ),
which occurs 38 times in 32 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:15 - Then God said to Abraham, “Regarding Sarai, your wife—her name will no longer be Sarai. From now on her name will be Sarah.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:17 - Then Abraham bowed down to the ground, but he laughed to himself in disbelief. “How could I become a father at the age of 100?” he thought. “And how can Sarah have a baby when she is ninety years old?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:19 - But God replied, “No—Sarah, your wife, will give birth to a son for you. You will name him Isaac,[fn] and I will confirm my covenant with him and his descendants as an everlasting covenant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 17:21 - But my covenant will be confirmed with Isaac, who will be born to you and Sarah about this time next year.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:6 - So Abraham ran back to the tent and said to Sarah, “Hurry! Get three large measures[fn] of your best flour, knead it into dough, and bake some bread.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:9 - “Where is Sarah, your wife?” the visitors asked.
“She’s inside the tent,” Abraham replied.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:10 - Then one of them said, “I will return to you about this time next year, and your wife, Sarah, will have a son!”
Sarah was listening to this conversation from the tent.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:11 - Abraham and Sarah were both very old by this time, and Sarah was long past the age of having children.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:12 - So she laughed silently to herself and said, “How could a worn-out woman like me enjoy such pleasure, especially when my master—my husband—is also so old?”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:13 - Then the LORD said to Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh? Why did she say, ‘Can an old woman like me have a baby?’
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:14 - Is anything too hard for the LORD? I will return about this time next year, and Sarah will have a son.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 18:15 - Sarah was afraid, so she denied it, saying, “I didn’t laugh.”
But the LORD said, “No, you did laugh.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:2 - Abraham introduced his wife, Sarah, by saying, “She is my sister.” So King Abimelech of Gerar sent for Sarah and had her brought to him at his palace.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:14 - Then Abimelech took some of his sheep and goats, cattle, and male and female servants, and he presented them to Abraham. He also returned his wife, Sarah, to him.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:16 - And he said to Sarah, “Look, I am giving your ‘brother’ 1,000 pieces of silver[fn] in the presence of all these witnesses. This is to compensate you for any wrong I may have done to you. This will settle any claim against me, and your reputation is cleared.”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 20:18 - For the LORD had caused all the women to be infertile because of what happened with Abraham’s wife, Sarah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:1 - The LORD kept his word and did for Sarah exactly what he had promised.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:2 - She became pregnant, and she gave birth to a son for Abraham in his old age. This happened at just the time God had said it would.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:3 - And Abraham named their son Isaac.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:6 - And Sarah declared, “God has brought me laughter.[fn] All who hear about this will laugh with me.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:7 - Who would have said to Abraham that Sarah would nurse a baby? Yet I have given Abraham a son in his old age!”
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:9 - But Sarah saw Ishmael—the son of Abraham and her Egyptian servant Hagar—making fun of her son, Isaac.[fn]
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 21:12 - But God told Abraham, “Do not be upset over the boy and your servant. Do whatever Sarah tells you, for Isaac is the son through whom your descendants will be counted.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:1 - When Sarah was 127 years old,
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:2 - she died at Kiriath-arba (now called Hebron) in the land of Canaan. There Abraham mourned and wept for her.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 23:19 - Then Abraham buried his wife, Sarah, there in Canaan, in the cave of Machpelah, near Mamre (also called Hebron).
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:36 - “When Sarah, my master’s wife, was very old, she gave birth to my master’s son, and my master has given him everything he owns.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 24:67 - And Isaac brought Rebekah into his mother Sarah’s tent, and she became his wife. He loved her deeply, and she was a special comfort to him after the death of his mother.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:10 - This was the field Abraham had purchased from the Hittites and where he had buried his wife Sarah.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 25:12 - This is the account of the family of Ishmael, the son of Abraham through Hagar, Sarah’s Egyptian servant.
Unchecked Copy BoxGen 49:31 - There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried. There Isaac and his wife, Rebekah, are buried. And there I buried Leah.
Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 51:2 - Yes, think about Abraham, your ancestor,
and Sarah, who gave birth to your nation.
Abraham was only one man when I called him.
But when I blessed him, he became a great nation.”
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