סָרָה
sara · turning aside, rebellion
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H5627 · appears 8 times in the Bible
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sara (סָרָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “turning aside, rebellion”.
Turning aside: the act of turning away, rebellion; also a falsehood spoken against someone.
How to say it
sa·ra
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Moving away from God, rising up against him.
- Continuously and without pause, one blow after another.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- rebellion ×5
- turning aside ×2
- ceasing ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 13:5
But that prophet or that dreamer of dreams shall be put to death, because he has spoken turning aside against YHWH your Elohim, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and redeemed you from the house of slaves, to drag you away from the way in which YHWH your Elohim commanded you to walk. So you shall remove the evil from among you.
- Deuteronomy 19:16
If a violent witness rises up against a man to testify against him of turning aside,
- Isaiah 1:5
Why will you be struck again, that you keep adding rebellion? The whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Isaiah 14:6
that struck peoples in wrath with blows without ceasing, that ruled the nations in anger with persecution that no one held back.
- Isaiah 31:6
Return to the one against whom they have made deep the rebellion, sons of Israel.
- Isaiah 59:13
transgressing and denying YHWH, and turning away from following our Elohim, speaking oppression and rebellion, conceiving and muttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Jeremiah 28:16
Therefore thus says YHWH: Look, I am sending you from off the face of the ground; this year you will die, for you have spoken rebellion against YHWH.”
- Jeremiah 29:32
therefore thus says YHWH: Look, I am punishing Shemaiah the Nehelamite and his offspring; he will not have a man living in the midst of this people, and he will not see the good that I am doing for my people, declares YHWH, for he has spoken rebellion against YHWH.’”