שְׂרָיָה
Sᵉrâyâh · ser-aw-yaw'
Serajah, the name of nine Israelites
Lexicon
Derivation: or שְׂרָיָהוּ; from H8280 (שָׂרָה) and H3050 (יָהּ); Jah has prevailed;
Serajah, the name of nine Israelites
Definition from Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890). Wording is Strong's own, including his etymological notes, which are not separate meanings.
KJV renderings: Seraiah.
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
- יYod10
Picture: arm and closed hand
- Concrete
- hand · arm · work
- Extended
- a deed · to make · to work · to throw or worship
- 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 › the hand that works › to reveal, behold
To consume, to destroy of the head, the highest of the hand that works that works to reveal, behold.
Interpretive, not lexical. The dictionary sense of שְׂרָיָה 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
20 occurrences · 20 OT · 0 NT · 13 distinct forms
KJV renderings of this word, by how often each one is used.
- seraiah8 · 40%
- and seraiah7 · 35%
- of seraiah3 · 15%
- and this seraiah1 · 5%
- to seraiah1 · 5%
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.