sarach · overhang

What it means

sarach (סָרַח) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “overhang”.

Hang over, spread out beyond.

How to say it

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

1. To droop, as extra cloth; grow wide, like a vine.
2. To lie stretched out at ease, careless.
3. To go bad.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• shall hang ×2
• sprawl ×2
• dangling ×1
• has decayed ×1
• spreading ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Exodus×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Ezekiel×2
• Amos×2

• Exodus 26:12

  As for the overhang that remains in the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remains shall hang over the back of the dwelling.

• Exodus 26:13

  And the cubit on this side and the cubit on that side, of what remains in the length of the curtains of the tent, shall hang over the sides of the dwelling on this side and on that side to cover it.

• Jeremiah 49:7

  Concerning Edom. Thus says YHWH Tsevaot: Is there no more wisdom in Teman? Counsel has perished from the discerning; their wisdom has decayed.

• Ezekiel 17:6

  And it sprouted and became a spreading vine, low in stature, so that its branches turned toward it, and its roots were under it; and it became a vine, and produced shoots and sent out foliage.

• Ezekiel 23:15

  girded with belts on their loins, with dangling turbans on their heads, with the appearance of officers, all of them, the likeness of the sons of Babylon, of Chaldea, the land of their birth.

• Amos 6:4

  those who lie on beds of ivory, and sprawl on their couches, and eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the midst of the stall;

• Amos 6:7

  Therefore now they will go into exile at the head of the exiles, and the banquet of those who sprawl will pass away.