sarid · survivor

What it means

sarid (שָׂרִיד) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “survivor”.

One who remains alive after a battle or a disaster.

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. Someone left alive after a disaster.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• survivor ×22
• survivors ×6

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×2
• Deuteronomy×2
• Joshua×9
• Judges×1
• 2 Kings×1
• Job×4
• Isaiah×1
• Jeremiah×4
• Lamentations×1
• Joel×1
• Obadiah×2

• Numbers 21:35

  So they struck him and his sons and all his people, until no survivor was left to him; and they took possession of his land.

• Numbers 24:19

  And one from Jacob shall rule and destroy the survivor from the city.”

• Deuteronomy 2:34

  We captured all his cities at that time and devoted to destruction every city: men, women, and little ones; we left no survivor.

• Deuteronomy 3:3

  So YHWH our Elohim gave into our hand also Og king of Bashan and all his people, and we struck him until no survivor was left to him.

• Joshua 8:22

  And these came out from the city to meet them, so that they were in the middle of Israel, some on this side and some on that side; and they struck them until no survivor or fugitive was left to them.

• Joshua 10:20

  And it came about, when Joshua and the sons of Israel had finished striking them with a very great blow, until they were finished, and the survivors who survived of them had entered into the fortified cities,

• Joshua 10:28

  And Makkedah Joshua took on that day and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king; he devoted to destruction them and every person who was in it; he left no survivor. And he did to the king of Makkedah as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:30

  And YHWH gave it also, and its king, into the hand of Israel; and he struck it with the edge of the sword, and every person who was in it; he left no survivor in it. And he did to its king as he had done to the king of Jericho.

• Joshua 10:33

  Then Horam king of Gezer came up to help Lachish, and Joshua struck him and his people until he had left him no survivor.

• Joshua 10:37

  They took it and struck it with the edge of the sword, and its king and all its cities and every person who was in it; he left no survivor, according to all that he had done to Eglon; and he devoted it to destruction and every person who was in it.

• Joshua 10:39

  He took it and its king and all its cities, and they struck them with the edge of the sword and devoted to destruction every person who was in it; he left no survivor. As he had done to Hebron, so he did to Debir and to its king, and as he had done to Libnah and to its king.

• Joshua 10:40

  So Joshua struck all the land: the hill country, the Negev, the Shephelah, and the slopes, and all their kings; he left no survivor, and he devoted to destruction all that breathed, just as YHWH, the Elohim of Israel, had commanded.

• Joshua 11:8

  And YHWH gave them into the hand of Israel, and they struck them and pursued them as far as Great Sidon and as far as Misrephoth-maim, and as far as the valley of Mizpah to the east; and they struck them until they had left them no survivor.

• Judges 5:13

  Then the survivor went down toward the nobles; the people of YHWH went down for me against the mighty men.

• 2 Kings 10:11

  Jehu struck all who remained of the house of Ahab in Jezreel, and all his great men and his close friends and his priests, until he left him no survivor.

• Job 18:19

  He has no son nor descendant among his people, and there is no survivor where he resided.

• Job 20:21

  There was no survivor from his eating; therefore his prosperity will not last.

• Job 20:26

  All darkness is hidden for his treasures; a fire not blown will devour him; it will go ill with the survivor in his tent.

• Job 27:15

  His survivors will be buried by death, and his widows will not weep.

• Isaiah 1:9

  Unless YHWH Tsevaot had left us a few survivors, we would have been like Sodom, we would have resembled Gomorrah.

• Jeremiah 31:2

  Thus says YHWH: “It found favor in the wilderness, the people of the survivors of the sword; Israel goes to his rest.”

• Jeremiah 42:17

  And it will be that all the men who have set their faces to go to Egypt to reside as aliens there will die by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence; and they will have no survivor or fugitive from the evil that I am bringing on them.

• Jeremiah 44:14

  And there will be no fugitive or survivor of the remnant of Judah who have come to reside as aliens there, in the land of Egypt, to return to the land of Judah, where they lift up their soul to return to live there; for they will not return, except some escaped ones.”

• Jeremiah 47:4

  because of the day that is coming to devastate all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and from Sidon every survivor who helps; for YHWH is devastating the Philistines, the remnant of the island of Caphtor.

• Lamentations 2:22

  You have summoned, as on a day of appointed feast, my terrors from all around; and there was not in the day of the anger of YHWH a fugitive or a survivor; those whom I raised with care and brought up, my enemy has consumed them.

• Joel 2:32

  And it will happen that everyone who calls on the name of YHWH will be delivered; for on Mount Zion and in Jerusalem there will be escape, as YHWH has said, and among the survivors will be those whom YHWH calls.”

• Obadiah 1:14

  Nor should you have stood at the crossroads to cut off his fugitives, nor handed over his survivors on the day of distress.

• Obadiah 1:18

  And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; and they will burn among them and consume them, and there will not be a survivor of the house of Esau, for YHWH has spoken.