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Lexicon :: Strong's H5516 - sîsrā'

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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 Box Jdg 4:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:2 - So the LORD sold them into the hands of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. Sisera, the commander of his army, was based in Harosheth Haggoyim.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:7

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:7 - I will lead Sisera, the commander of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his troops to the Kishon River and give him into your hands.’ ”

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:9 - “Certainly I will go with you,” said Deborah. “But because of the course you are taking, the honor will not be yours, for the LORD will deliver Sisera into the hands of a woman.” So Deborah went with Barak to Kedesh.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:12 - When they told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor,

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:13 - Sisera summoned from Harosheth Haggoyim to the Kishon River all his men and his nine hundred chariots fitted with iron.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:14 - Then Deborah said to Barak, “Go! This is the day the LORD has given Sisera into your hands. Has not the LORD gone ahead of you?” So Barak went down Mount Tabor, with ten thousand men following him.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:15 - At Barak’s advance, the LORD routed Sisera and all his chariots and army by the sword, and Sisera got down from his chariot and fled on foot.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:16 - Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth Haggoyim, and all Sisera’s troops fell by the sword; not a man was left.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:17

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:17 - Sisera, meanwhile, fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was an alliance between Jabin king of Hazor and the family of Heber the Kenite.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:18 - Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Come, my lord, come right in. Don’t be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 4:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 4:22 - Just then Barak came by in pursuit of Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him. “Come,” she said, “I will show you the man you’re looking for.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera with the tent peg through his temple—dead.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:20 - From the heavens the stars fought, from their courses they fought against Sisera.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:26 - Her hand reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:28 - “Through the window peered Sisera’s mother; behind the lattice she cried out, ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why is the clatter of his chariots delayed?’

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Unchecked Copy Box Jdg 5:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 5:30 - ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoils: a woman or two for each man, colorful garments as plunder for Sisera, colorful garments embroidered, highly embroidered garments for my neck— all this as plunder?’

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Unchecked Copy Box 1Sa 12:9

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 12:9 - “But they forgot the LORD their God; so he sold them into the hand of Sisera, the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Ezr 2:53

Unchecked Copy BoxEzr 2:53 -
Barkos, Sisera, Temah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Neh 7:55

Unchecked Copy BoxNeh 7:55 -
Barkos, Sisera, Temah,

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Unchecked Copy Box Psa 83:9

Unchecked Copy BoxPsa 83:9 - Do to them as you did to Midian, as you did to Sisera and Jabin at the river Kishon,
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