sarar · be stubborn

What it means

sarar (סָרַר) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “be stubborn”.

Turn away from what one is told, refuse to be led.

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 refuse to be led, insist on one's own way.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• stubborn ×9
• rebellious ×5
• obstinate ×2
• are rebels ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Deuteronomy×2
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×4
• Proverbs×1
• Isaiah×3
• Jeremiah×2
• Hosea×3
• Zechariah×1

• Deuteronomy 21:18

  If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not listen to the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and they discipline him and he will not listen to them,

• Deuteronomy 21:20

  and they shall say to the elders of his city, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not listen to our voice; he is a glutton and a drunkard.”

• Nehemiah 9:29

  And you testified against them to turn them back to your law; yet they acted with arrogance and did not listen to your commandments, and against your rules they sinned, which, if a person does them, he will live by them; and they gave a rebellious shoulder, and their neck they hardened, and did not listen.

• Psalms 66:7

  He rules by his might forever; his eyes watch the nations; let the rebellious not exalt themselves. Selah.

• Psalms 68:6

  Elohim makes the solitary dwell in a home; he brings out prisoners into prosperity; but the rebellious dwell in a parched land.

• Psalms 68:18

  You went up on high; you took captives; you took gifts among human beings, and even the rebellious, for Yah Elohim to dwell there.

• Psalms 78:8

  and not be like their fathers, a generation obstinate and rebellious, a generation that did not make steady its heart, and whose spirit was not faithful to El.

• Proverbs 7:11

  She is noisy and stubborn; in her house her feet do not stay;

• Isaiah 1:23

  Your princes are stubborn and companions of thieves; every one of them loves a bribe and chases after rewards. The orphan they do not judge the case of, and the cause of the widow does not come before them.

• Isaiah 30:1

  Woe to the stubborn children, declares YHWH, who make a plan, but not from me, and who pour out a libation, but not of my spirit, so as to add sin to sin;

• Isaiah 65:2

  I have spread out my hands all the day to an obstinate people, who walk in the way that is not good, after their thoughts;

• Jeremiah 5:23

  But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

• Jeremiah 6:28

  All of them are rebels among the stubborn, going about slandering; bronze and iron, all of them are corrupters.

• Hosea 4:16

  For like a stubborn heifer Israel has been stubborn; now will YHWH pasture them like a lamb in a broad place?

• Hosea 9:15

  All their evil is in Gilgal; for there I came to hate them; because of the evil of their deeds I will drive them out of my house; I will no longer love them; all their princes are rebels.

• Zechariah 7:11

  But they refused to pay attention, and gave a rebellious shoulder, and their ears they made heavy so as not to hear.

And 1 more times.