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שַׂר

sar · chief, official

Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8269 · appears 421 times in the Bible

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What it means

sar (שַׂר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “chief, official”.

Chief, a person in command: prince, captain, official, leader.

How to say it

sar

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 set over others, in the army or in the state.
  2. Someone of high rank by family or office: a noble, a great lord.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

Word study

Chief, a person in command, of any rank (BDB): a king's prince, a captain of troops, one in charge of a work. Sarah's name, שָׂרָה, is its feminine: “princess”.

How we translate it

“Princes” 107 times, “commanders” 86, “officials” 67, “chiefs” 47, “commander” 46, “chief” 42, “prince” 9. This edition writes “princes” for the nobles of a king, “officials” for those who hold office at court, and “commander” or “chief of…” in the titles of a post (“the commander of his army”, “the chief of the guard”).

How it is translated

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

  • princes ×107
  • commanders ×86
  • officials ×67
  • chiefs ×47
  • commander ×46
  • chief ×42
  • prince ×9
  • ruler ×9
  • leaders ×3
  • governor ×2
  • others ×3

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Comes from

Words that come from it

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

Where it appears

  • Genesis 12:15

    Pharaoh’s princes saw her and praised her to Pharaoh, and the woman was taken into the house of Pharaoh.

  • Genesis 21:22

    It happened at that time that Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, spoke to Abraham, saying, “Elohim is with you in all that you do.

  • Genesis 21:32

    So they made a covenant at Beersheba. Then Abimelech and Phicol, the commander of his army, rose up and returned to the land of the Philistines.

  • Genesis 26:26

    Abimelech went to him from Gerar, with Ahuzzath his friend and Phicol, the commander of his army.

  • Genesis 37:36

    Meanwhile the Medanites sold him in Egypt to Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard.

  • Genesis 39:1

    Now Joseph had been brought down to Egypt, and Potiphar, an official of Pharaoh, the chief of the guard, an Egyptian man, bought him from the hand of the Ishmaelites who had brought him down there.

  • Genesis 39:21

    But YHWH was with Joseph and extended to him loyal love, and gave him favor in the eyes of the chief of the prison.

  • Genesis 39:22

    The chief of the prison put into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who were in the prison; and all that was done there, he was the one doing it.

  • Genesis 39:23

    The chief of the prison did not look into anything in his hand, because YHWH was with him; and whatever he did, YHWH made successful.

  • Genesis 40:2

    Pharaoh was angry with his two officials, with the chief of the cupbearers and with the chief of the bakers,

  • Genesis 40:3

    and he put them in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, in the prison, the place where Joseph was confined.

  • Genesis 40:4

    The chief of the guard appointed Joseph to be with them, and he attended them; and they were some days in custody.

  • Genesis 40:9

    So the chief of the cupbearers told his dream to Joseph and said to him, “In my dream, look, a vine was before me,

  • Genesis 40:16

    When the chief of the bakers saw that he had interpreted well, he said to Joseph, “In my dream I too saw, and look, three baskets of white bread were on my head.

  • Genesis 40:20

    On the third day, Pharaoh’s birthday, he made a feast for all his servants, and he lifted up the head of the chief of the cupbearers and the head of the chief of the bakers among his servants.

  • Genesis 40:21

    He restored the chief of the cupbearers to his post as cupbearer, and he put the cup in Pharaoh’s hand;

  • Genesis 40:22

    but the chief of the bakers he hanged, just as Joseph had interpreted to them.

  • Genesis 40:23

    Yet the chief of the cupbearers did not remember Joseph, but forgot him.

  • Genesis 41:9

    Then the chief of the cupbearers spoke to Pharaoh, saying, “My sins I am remembering today.

  • Genesis 41:10

    Pharaoh was angry with his servants, and he put me in custody in the house of the chief of the guard, me and the chief of the bakers.

  • Genesis 41:12

    A young man was there with us, a Hebrew, a slave of the chief of the guard. We told him, and he interpreted for us our dreams; to each according to his dream he interpreted.

  • Genesis 47:6

    The land of Egypt is before you; in the best of the land settle your father and your brothers; let them live in the land of Goshen. And if you know that there are among them capable men, put them as chiefs over livestock, over what is mine.”

  • Exodus 1:11

    So they set over them chiefs of forced labor to afflict them with their burdens. And they built for Pharaoh store cities, Pithom and Rameses.

  • Exodus 2:14

    He said, “Who made you a man, a ruler and judge over us? Are you thinking of killing me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and said, “Surely the thing is known.”

  • Exodus 18:21

    And you shall look for, from all the people, capable men, who fear Elohim, men of truth, who hate unjust gain; and place them over them as chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.

  • Exodus 18:25

    Moses chose capable men from all Israel and made them heads over the people, chiefs of thousands, chiefs of hundreds, chiefs of fifties, and chiefs of tens.

  • Numbers 21:18

    The well that the princes dug, that the nobles of the people excavated, with the scepter, with their staffs.” And from the wilderness they went to Mattanah,

  • Numbers 22:8

    And he said to them, “Spend the night here tonight, and I will bring back to you word, as YHWH speaks to me.” So the princes of Moab stayed with Balaam.

  • Numbers 22:13

    So Balaam rose in the morning and said to the princes of Balak, “Go to your land, for YHWH has refused to let me go with you.”

  • Numbers 22:14

    And the princes of Moab rose and came to Balak and said, “Balaam refused to come with us.”

  • Numbers 22:15

    And Balak sent again princes, more numerous and more honored than these.

  • Numbers 22:21

    So Balaam rose in the morning and saddled his donkey and went with the princes of Moab.

  • Numbers 22:35

    And the angel of YHWH said to Balaam, “Go with the men, but only the word that I speak to you, that you shall speak.” So Balaam went with the princes of Balak.

  • Numbers 22:40

    And Balak sacrificed oxen and sheep and sent some to Balaam and to the princes who were with him.

  • Numbers 23:6

    So he returned to him, and look, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and all the princes of Moab.

  • Numbers 23:17

    And he came to him, and look, he was standing beside his burnt offering, and the princes of Moab with him. And Balak said to him, “What has YHWH spoken?”

  • Numbers 31:14

    Moses was angry with the appointed officers of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, who came from the army of the war.

  • Numbers 31:48

    Then the appointed officers who were over the thousands of the army, the commanders of thousands and the commanders of hundreds, came near to Moses,

  • Numbers 31:52

    And all the gold of the contribution that they set apart for YHWH was sixteen thousand seven hundred fifty shekels, from the commanders of thousands and from the commanders of hundreds.

  • Numbers 31:54

    Moses and Eleazar the priest took the gold from the commanders of thousands and of hundreds, and brought it into the tent of meeting as a memorial for the sons of Israel before YHWH.

And 381 more times.