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Greek noun (feminine) · G4577

σειρά

seirasi-rah'

(a) a cord; a lock of hair (Jg, ll. with).†

1 use in the Greek text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: seirá

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's G4577is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 1 of 27
    New Testament books
  • 1
    spelling
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · G4577

akin to ); a chain (as binding or drawing)

The King James renders it: chain.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

seira is rendered "(a) a cord; a lock of hair (Jg, ll. with).†". It stands 1 time in the Greek text, across one book.

  • One of the uses stand in 2 Peter, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "(a) a cord".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

The first use

For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

2 Peter 2:4σειραῖς

The first use, in the order of the New Testament's books.

Where the word stands

The word stands in one of the 27 New Testament books.

The other 26 New Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The lexicons give this word two senses, and a verse uses one of them at a time: (a) a cord, and a lock of hair (Jg, ll. with).†.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
(a) a cordTagged as
  • in chains1
Where2 Peter 2:4For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell…
a lock of hair (Jg, ll. with).†Tagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

All 1, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

1 spelling and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • σειραῖς1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine plural1N-DPF

2 Peter

one use
  • For if God did not spare the angels when they sinned, but cast them deep into hell, placing them in chains of darkness to be held for judgment;

    2 Peter 2:4

    • σειραῖςseiraisnoun · dative (“to / for”) · feminine pluraltagged: in chains

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESG (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0), the Brief lexicon based on Abbott-Smith (1922).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

Revised 2026-09-05. Every cited work, the sources registry →