שַׂר
sar · sar
a head person (of any rank or class)
Lexicon
Derivation: from H8323 (שָׂרַר);
a head person (of any rank or class)
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord,(-task-)master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
Letters
- שShin300
Picture: two front teeth (or a composite bow)
- Concrete
- teeth · sharp · press · bow
- Extended
- to consume · to destroy · to press or grind · to change · again
- רResh200
Picture: a human head
- Concrete
- head · face · person
- Extended
- first · top · beginning · chief · the highest
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest
To consume, to destroy of the head, the highest.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שַׂר above is the attested meaning; this pictographic reading is a tradition about how the sign-shapes may have been heard. Both can be held at once, they are answering different questions.
Usage
421 occurrences · 421 OT · 0 NT · 136 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- the princes23 · 10%
- and the princes22 · 9%
- princes16 · 7%
- the captain15 · 6%
- and captains13 · 6%
- of the princes12 · 5%
- and the captains12 · 5%
- captain11 · 5%
- captains11 · 5%
- and his princes11 · 5%
- the chief11 · 5%
- the captains10 · 4%
- the ruler10 · 4%
- and all the captains7 · 3%
- and princes7 · 3%
- all the princes6 · 3%
- and all the princes6 · 3%
- rulers5 · 2%
- and rulers5 · 2%
- her princes4 · 2%
- the governor4 · 2%
- of the chief4 · 2%
- of the captains3 · 1%
- unto the princes3 · 1%
- the chief captain3 · 1%
Where it is used, by book.
Inflected forms found in the text.
Counts are computed from the tagged Hebrew and Greek text aligned to the King James Version, not from an estimate.