Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H5516
סִיסְרָא
Siserasee-ser-aw'
Sisera
21 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Çîyçᵉrâʼ
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5516is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 14spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5516
Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim
The King James renders it: Sisera.
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
Sisera is rendered "Sisera". It stands 21 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Seventeen of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 4:2So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
- The Greek text spells it fourteen different ways.
The first use
So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
Judges 4:2סִֽיסְרָ֔א
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Sisera17
- and Sisera1
- for Sisera1
- like Sisera1
- to Sisera1
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 21, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
14 spellings 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
- סִֽיסְרָא֙5
- סִֽיסְרָ֖א3
- סִֽיסְרָא֒2
- וְסִֽיסְרָא֙1
- כְּֽסִֽיסְרָ֥א1
- לְסִֽיסְרָ֑א1
- לְסִ֣יסְרָ֔א1
- סִֽיסְרָ֔א1
- סִֽיסְרָ֑א1
- סִֽיסְרָ֜א1
- סִֽיסְרָ֨א1
- סִֽיסְרָ֛א1
and 2 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)17HNpm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)3HR/Npm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npm
Judges
seventeen uses
So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.
- סִֽיסְרָ֔אsisra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.’”
- סִֽיסְרָא֙sisera'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
“I will certainly go with you,” Deborah replied, “but the road you are taking will bring you no honor, because the LORD will be selling Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh,
- סִֽיסְרָ֑אsisra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,
- לְסִֽיסְרָ֑אlesisera'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sisera
he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.
- סִֽיסְרָ֜אsisra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.
- סִֽיסְרָא֙sisera'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
And in front of him the LORD routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.
- סִֽיסְרָ֨אsisra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
- סִֽיסְרָ֛אsisra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
Then Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.
- סִֽיסְרָא֙sisera'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
- וְסִֽיסְרָא֙vesisera'conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Sisera
Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.
- סִֽיסְרָא֒sisera'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.
- סִֽיסְרָא֒sisera'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
- סִֽיסְרָא֙sisera'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.
- סִיסְרָֽא׃sisera'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.
- סִֽיסְרָא֙sisera'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’
- סִֽיסְרָ֖אsisra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’
- לְסִ֣יסְרָ֔אlesisera'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Sisera
1 Samuel
one use
But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.
- סִֽיסְרָא֩sisera'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
Ezra
one use
the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,
- סִֽיסְרָ֖אsisra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
Nehemiah
one use
the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,
- סִֽיסְרָ֖אsisra'proper noun (a name)tagged: Sisera
Psalms
one use
Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,
- כְּֽסִֽיסְרָ֥אkesisera'preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: like Sisera
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.