sisra · Sisera

What it means

sisra (סִיסְרָא) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “Sisera”.

Commander of the army of Jabin, the Canaanite king of Hazor. Later another person bears the same name (Ezra 2:53).

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.

Where it appears

• Judges×17
• 1 Samuel×1
• Ezra×1
• Nehemiah×1
• Psalms×1

• Judges 4:2

  YHWH sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his army was Sisera, and he lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

• Judges 4:7

  And I will draw out to you, to the brook Kishon, Sisera, the commander of the army of Jabin, with his chariots and his multitude, and I will give him into your hand.’”

• Judges 4:9

  She said, “I will certainly go with you; only, the honor will not be yours on the road on which you are going, for into the hand of a woman YHWH will sell Sisera.” Deborah arose and went with Barak to Kedesh.

• Judges 4:12

  They told Sisera that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up to Mount Tabor.

• Judges 4:13

  Sisera summoned all his chariots, nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the brook Kishon.

• Judges 4:14

  Deborah said to Barak, “Rise, for this is the day on which YHWH has given Sisera into your hand. Has not YHWH gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men behind him.

• Judges 4:15

  YHWH threw into confusion Sisera and all the chariots and all the camp with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera got down from the chariot and fled on foot.

• Judges 4:16

  Barak pursued the chariots and the camp as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and all the camp of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; not even one was left.

• Judges 4:17

  Sisera fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, for there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

• Judges 4:18

  Jael went out to meet Sisera and said to him, “Turn aside, my lord, turn aside to me; do not be afraid.” So he turned aside to her into the tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

• Judges 4:22

  And look, Barak was pursuing Sisera, and Jael went out to meet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you are seeking.” He went in with her, and there was Sisera, fallen dead, with the peg in his temple.

• Judges 5:20

  From the heavens they fought; the stars from their courses fought against Sisera.

• Judges 5:26

  Her hand she stretched out to the peg, and her right hand to the mallet of the workmen; she hammered Sisera, she crushed his head, she shattered and pierced his temple.

• Judges 5:28

  Through the window she looked out and cried, the mother of Sisera, through the lattice: ‘Why is his chariot slow in coming? Why are the hoofbeats of his chariots delayed?’

• Judges 5:30

  ‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil? A girl, two girls for each head of a man; spoil of dyed cloth for Sisera, spoil of dyed cloth embroidered; dyed cloth, two embroideries, for the necks of the spoil.’

• 1 Samuel 12:9

  But they forgot YHWH their Elohim, and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.

• Ezra 2:53

  the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,

• Nehemiah 7:55

  the sons of Barkos, the sons of Sisera, the sons of Temah,

• Psalms 83:9

  Do to them as to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin at the brook Kishon,

And 2 more times.