שָׂרָה
Sârâh · saw-raw'
Sarah, Abraham's wife
Lexicon
Derivation: the same as H8282 (שָׂרָה);
Sarah, Abraham's wife
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Sarah.
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
- הHe5
Picture: a person with both arms raised
- Concrete
- a man calling out · a window · breath
- Extended
- behold! · revelation · to reveal · the (definite article)
Possible cultural reading (auto-composed)
to consume, to destroy › the head, the highest › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of the head, the highest that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שָׂרָה 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
38 occurrences · 38 OT · 0 NT · 19 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- and sarah10 · 26%
- sarah6 · 16%
- unto sarah2 · 5%
- and unto sarah2 · 5%
- of sarah2 · 5%
- for sarah2 · 5%
- sarah's2 · 5%
- and shall sarah1 · 3%
- which sarah1 · 3%
- is sarah1 · 3%
- and, lo, sarah1 · 3%
- to be with sarah1 · 3%
- therefore sarah1 · 3%
- did sarah1 · 3%
- then sarah1 · 3%
- him sarah1 · 3%
- unto him, whom sarah1 · 3%
- that sarah1 · 3%
- in all that sarah1 · 3%
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.