Abbott-Smith Greek Lexicon
Σάρρα
- Transliteration
- Sarra
- Language
- Greek
- Part of speech
- N:N-F-P
- Indexed occurrences
- 4
Glosses
Sarah, Sara, Sarah
Lexicon definition
Σάρρα, -ας, ἡ (Heb. שָׂרָה, Gen.17:15), Sarah: Rom.4:19 9:9, Heb.11:11, 1Pe.3:6.† (AS)
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Sarah
The wife of Abraham, and his sister, as he himself informs us, by the same father, but not the same mother, Gen. xx, 12. Sarah is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “lady; princess; princess of the multitude.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.
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- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
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- Subject type
- Subject
- Strong’s
- G4564, H8283, H8294
- Hebrew
- שָׂרָה · Sârâh
- Greek
- Σάρρα · Sarra
- Name meaning
- lady; princess; princess of the multitude According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Strong’s and original-language information
G4564
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
שָׂרָה
- Transliteration
- Sârâh
- Pronunciation
- saw-raw'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 38
Glosses
Sarah.
Lexicon definition
Sarah, Abraham's wife
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
שֶׂרַח
- Transliteration
- Serach
- Pronunciation
- seh'-rakh
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 3
Glosses
Sarah, Serah.
Lexicon definition
Serach, an Israelitess
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
שָׂרָה
- Transliteration
- sârâh
- Pronunciation
- saw-raw'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 3
Glosses
have power (as a prince).
Lexicon definition
to prevail
Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon
שָׂרָה
- Transliteration
- sârâh
- Pronunciation
- saw-raw'
- Language
- Hebrew
- Indexed occurrences
- 5
Glosses
lady, princess, queen.
Lexicon definition
a mistress, i.e. female noble
Complete dictionary entries
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Sarah
lady; princess; princess of the multitude
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A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
SARAH
the wife of Abraham, and his sister, as he himself informs us, by the same father, but not the same mother, Gen. xx, 12. See ABRAHAM.
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Concordance
Strong's Concordance
Sarah
Indexed occurrences: 37
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All Scripture references61 references
Genesis 35
Genesis 11:29Genesis 12:10Genesis 16:1Genesis 16:4Genesis 17:15Genesis 17:17Genesis 17:19Genesis 17:21Genesis 18:6Genesis 18:9Genesis 18:10Genesis 18:11Genesis 18:13Genesis 18:14Genesis 18:15Genesis 20:1Genesis 20:2Genesis 20:13Genesis 20:14Genesis 20:16Genesis 20:18Genesis 21:1Genesis 21:2Genesis 21:3Genesis 21:6Genesis 21:7Genesis 21:9Genesis 21:12Genesis 23Genesis 23:1Genesis 23:19Genesis 24:36Genesis 24:67Genesis 25:10Genesis 49:31
Ruth 2
1 Kings 3
2 Kings 2
Job 2
Isaiah 1
Jonah 1
Micah 1
Mark 1
Luke 2
John 4
Acts 3
Romans 1
Hebrews 1
1 Peter 2
Topical Bible
Nave's Topical Bible
SARAH
Entry:
Nave’s Topical Bible references for SARAH.
Indexed references: 10
Scripture references:
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Bible Names
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
Sarah
Meaning:
lady; princess; princess of the multitude
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Sources
- Historical Reference: Nave’s Topical Bible — Public domain
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock’s Bible Names Dictionary (1869)
- Historical Reference: Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary
- Historical Reference: A Biblical and Theological Dictionary
- Historical Reference: concordance
- Historical Reference: STEPBible TBESG (based primarily on Abbott-Smith)
- Historical Reference: Installed reference work
Ancient Context2 items
Josephus Antiquities Whiston
Concerning Abimelech; And Concerning Ismael The Son Of Abraham; And Concerning The Arabians, Who Were His Posterity.
Antiquities Book 1, Chapter 12
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Concerning Sarah Abraham's Wife; And How She Ended Her Days.
Antiquities Book 1, Chapter 14
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Topic
SARAH
Nave’s Topical Bible references for SARAH.
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Burial
The first burial we have an account of is that of Sarah (Gen. 23). The first commercial transaction recorded is that of the purchase of a burial-place, for which Abraham weighed to Ephron "four hundred shekels of silver current money with the merchants." Thus the patriarch became the owner of a part of the land of Canaan, the only part he ever possessed. When he himself died, "his sons Isaac and Ishmael buried him in the cave of Machpelah," beside Sarah his wife (Gen. 25:9). Deborah, Rebekah's nurse, was buried under Allon-bachuth, "the oak of weeping" (Gen. 35:8), near to Bethel. Rachel died, and was buried near Ephrath; "and Jacob set a pillar upon her grave" (16-20). Isaac was buried at Hebron, where he had died (27, 29). Jacob, when charging his sons to bury him in the cave of Machpelah, said, "There they buried Abraham and Sarah his wife; there they buried Isaac and Rebekah his wife; and there I buried Leah" (49:31). In compliance with the oath which he made him swear unto him (47:29-31), Joseph, assisted by his brethren, buried Jacob in the cave of Machpelah (50:2, 13). At the Exodus, Moses "took the bones of Joseph with him," and they were buried in the "parcel of ground" which Jacob had bought of the sons of Hamor (Josh. 24:32), which became Joseph's inheritance (Gen. 48:22; 1 Chr. 5:1; John 4:5). Two burials are mentioned as having taken place in the wilderness. That of Miriam (Num. 20:1), and that of Moses, "in the land of Moab" (Deut. 34:5, 6, 8). There is no account of the actual burial of Aaron, which probably, however, took place on the summit of Mount Hor (Num. 20:28, 29). Joshua was buried "in the border of his inheritance in Timnath-serah" (Josh. 24: 30). In Job we find a reference to burying-places, which were probably the Pyramids (3:14, 15). The Hebrew word for "waste places" here resembles in sound the Egyptian word for "pyramids." Samuel, like Moses, was honoured with a national burial (1 Sam. 25:1). Joab (1 Kings 2:34) "was buried in his own house in the wilderness." In connection with the burial of Saul and his three sons we meet for the first time with the practice of burning the dead (1 Sam. 31:11-13). The same practice is again referred to by Amos (6:10). Absalom was buried "in the wood" where he was slain (2 Sam. 18:17, 18). The raising of the heap of stones over his grave was intended to mark abhorrence of the person buried (comp. Josh. 7:26 and 8:29). There was no fixed royal burying-place for the Hebrew kings. We find several royal burials taking place, however, "in the city of David" (1 Kings 2:10; 11:43; 15:8; 2 Kings 14:19, 20; 15:38; 1 Kings 14:31; 22:50; 2 Chr. 21:19, 20; 2 Chr. 24:25, etc.). Hezekiah was buried in the mount of the sepulchres of the sons of David; "and all Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem did him honour at his death" (2 Chr. 32:33). Little is said regarding the burial of the kings of Israel. Some of them were buried in Samaria, the capital of their kingdom (2 Kings 10:35; 13:9; 14:16). Our Lord was buried in a new tomb, hewn out of the rock, which Joseph of Arimathea had prepared for himself (Matt. 27:57-60; Mark 15:46; John 19:41, 42). The grave of Lazarus was "a cave, and a stone lay on it" (John 11:38). Graves were frequently either natural caverns or artificial excavations formed in the sides of rocks (Gen. 23:9; Matt. 27:60); and coffins were seldom used, unless when the body was brought from a distance.
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Covering of the eyes
Occurs only in Gen. 20:16. In the Revised Version the rendering is "it (i.e., Abimelech's present of 1,000 pieces of silver to Abraham) is for thee a covering of the eyes." This has been regarded as an implied advice to Sarah to conform to the custom of married women, and wear a complete veil, covering the eyes as well as the rest of the face.
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Handmaid
Servant (Gen. 16:1; Ruth 3:9; Luke 1:48). It is probable that Hagar was Sarah's personal attendant while she was in the house of Pharaoh, and was among those maid-servants whom Abram had brought from Egypt.
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Mourn
Frequent references are found in Scripture to, (1.) Mourning for the dead. Abraham mourned for Sarah (Gen. 23:2); Jacob for Joseph (37:34, 35); the Egyptians for Jacob (50:3-10); Israel for Aaron (Num. 20:29), for Moses (Deut. 34:8), and for Samuel (1 Sam. 25:1); David for Abner (2 Sam. 3:31, 35); Mary and Martha for Lazarus (John 11); devout men for Stephen (Acts 8:2), etc. (2.) For calamities, Job (1:20, 21; 2:8); Israel (Ex. 33:4); the Ninevites (Jonah 3:5); Israel, when defeated by Benjamin (Judg. 20:26), etc. (3.) Penitential mourning, by the Israelites on the day of atonement (Lev. 23:27; Acts 27:9); under Samuel's ministry (1 Sam. 7:6); predicted in Zechariah (Zech. 12:10, 11); in many of the psalms (51, etc.). Mourning was expressed, (1) by weeping (Gen. 35:8, marg.; Luke 7:38, etc.); (2) by loud lamentation (Ruth 1:9; 1 Sam. 6:19; 2 Sam. 3:31); (3) by the disfigurement of the person, as rending the clothes (Gen. 37:29, 34; Matt. 26:65), wearing sackcloth (Gen. 37:34; Ps. 35:13), sprinkling dust or ashes on the person (2 Sam. 13:19; Jer. 6:26; Job 2:12), shaving the head and plucking out the hair of the head or beard (Lev. 10:6; Job 1:20), neglect of the person or the removal of ornaments (Ex. 33:4; Deut. 21:12, 13; 2 Sam. 14:2; 19:24; Matt. 6:16, 17), fasting (2 Sam. 1:12), covering the upper lip (Lev. 13:45; Micah 3:7), cutting the flesh (Jer. 16:6, 7), and sitting in silence (Judg. 20:26; 2 Sam. 12:16; 13:31; Job 1:20). In the later times we find a class of mourners who could be hired to give by their loud lamentation the external tokens of sorrow (2 Chr. 35:25; Jer. 9:17; Matt. 9:23). The period of mourning for the dead varied. For Jacob it was seventy days (Gen. 50:3); for Aaron (Num. 20:29) and Moses (Deut. 34:8) thirty days; and for Saul only seven days (1 Sam. 31:13). In 2 Sam. 3:31-35, we have a description of the great mourning for the death of Abner.
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Sarah
lady; princess; princess of the multitude
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Sepulchre
First mentioned as purchased by Abraham for Sarah from Ephron the Hittite (Gen. 23:20). This was the "cave of the field of Machpelah," where also Abraham and Rebekah and Jacob and Leah were burried (79:29-32). In Acts 7:16 it is said that Jacob was "laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor the father of Sychem." It has been proposed, as a mode of reconciling the apparent discrepancy between this verse and Gen. 23:20, to read Acts 7:16 thus: "And they [i.e., our fathers] were carried over into Sychem, and laid in the sepulchre that Abraham bought for a sum of money of the sons of Emmor [the son] of Sychem." In this way the purchase made by Abraham is not to be confounded with the purchase made by Jacob subsequently in the same district. Of this purchase by Abraham there is no direct record in the Old Testament. (See [569]TOMB.)
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Sirah
Retiring, a well from which Joab's messenger brought back Abner (2 Sam. 3:26). It is now called Ain Sarah, and is situated about a mile from Hebron, on the road to the north.
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