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Sisera

That sees a horse or a swallow Sisera is rendered in the installed Bible Names resource as “that sees a horse or a swallow.” This unified study connects 8 installed resource categories without replacing their source records.

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Subject type
Subject
Strong’s
H5516
Hebrew
סִיסְרָא · Çîyçᵉrâʼ
Name meaning
that sees a horse or a swallow According to Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Strong’s and original-language information

Strong’s Hebrew and Greek Lexicon

סִיסְרָא

H5516
Transliteration
Çîyçᵉrâʼ
Pronunciation
see-ser-aw'
Language
Hebrew
Indexed occurrences
21

Glosses

Sisera.

Lexicon definition

Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim

Greek lexical coverage

No safely matched Greek Strong’s entry

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Complete dictionary entries

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Sisera

that sees a horse or a swallow

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Concordance

Strong's Concordance

Sisera

Indexed occurrences: 21

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All Scripture references22 references

Topical Bible

Bible Names

Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary

Sisera

Meaning:
that sees a horse or a swallow

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Topic

SISERA

Nave’s Topical Bible references for SISERA.

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Endor

Fountain of Dor; i.e., "of the age", a place in the territory of Issachar (Josh. 17:11) near the scene of the great victory which was gained by Deborah and Barak over Sisera and Jabin (comp. Ps. 83:9, 10). To Endor, Saul resorted to consult one reputed to be a witch on the eve of his last engagement with the Philistines (1 Sam. 28:7). It is identified with the modern village of Endur, "a dirty hamlet of some twenty houses, or rather huts, most of them falling to ruin," on the northern slope of Little Hermon, about 7 miles from Jezreel.

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Nail

For fastening. (1.) Hebrew yathed, "piercing," a peg or nail of any material (Ezek. 15:3), more especially a tent-peg (Ex. 27:19; 35:18; 38:20), with one of which Jael (q.v.) pierced the temples of Sisera (Judg. 4:21, 22). This word is also used metaphorically (Zech. 10:4) for a prince or counsellor, just as "the battle-bow" represents a warrior. (2.) Masmer, a "point," the usual word for a nail. The words of the wise are compared to "nails fastened by the masters of assemblies" (Eccl. 12:11, A.V.). The Revised Version reads, "as nails well fastened are the words of the masters," etc. Others (as Plumptre) read, "as nails fastened are the masters of assemblies" (comp. Isa. 22:23; Ezra 9:8). David prepared nails for the temple (1 Chr. 22:3; 2 Chr. 3:9). The nails by which our Lord was fixed to the cross are mentioned (John 20:25; Col. 2:14). Nail of the finger (Heb. tsipporen, "scraping"). To "pare the nails" is in Deut. 21:12 (marg., "make," or "dress," or "suffer to grow") one of the signs of purification, separation from former heathenism (comp. Lev. 14:8; Num. 8:7). In Jer. 17:1 this word is rendered "point."

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Sisera

that sees a horse or a swallow

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Zaanaim

Wanderings; the unloading of tents, so called probably from the fact of nomads in tents encamping amid the cities and villages of that region, a place in the north-west of Lake Merom, near Kedesh, in Naphtali. Here Sisera was slain by Jael, "the wife of Heber the Kenite," who had pitched his tent in the "plain [R.V., 'as far as the oak'] of Zaanaim" (Judg. 4:11). It has been, however, suggested by some that, following the LXX. and the Talmud, the letter b, which in Hebrew means "in," should be taken as a part of the word following, and the phrase would then be "unto the oak of Bitzanaim," a place which has been identified with the ruins of Bessum, about half-way between Tiberias and Mount Tabor.

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