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Hebrew noun (masculine) · H5633

סֶרֶן

serenseh'-ren

lord; axle

22 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: çeren

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5633is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 5 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 11
    spellings
  • 2
    meanings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H5633

an axle; figuratively, a peer

The King James renders it: lord, plate.

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

seren is rendered "lord; axle". It stands 22 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.

  • Eleven of the uses stand in 1 Samuel, more than in any other book.
  • The lexicon lists two meanings for it, beginning with "lord".
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Joshua 13:3All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites, from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;
  • The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.

The first use

All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites, from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;

Joshua 13:3סַרְנֵ֣י

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

Where the word stands

Eleven of the word's twenty-two uses are in 1 Samuel.

The other 34 Old Testament books never use the word.

What the word means

The word carries two meanings: lord, and axle.

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

The English STEP Bible gives each use, word by word, and how many times.
lordStrong's entry ATagged aslisted under the tableWhereJoshua 13:3All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites…
axleStrong's entry BTagged aslisted under the tableWherein the ledger below

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • rulers of13
  • and rulers of3
  • the rulers3
  • and axles of1
  • and to rulers your1
  • to rulers of1

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.

The words it stands beside

All 22, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

11 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

  • סַרְנֵ֣י8
  • הַסְּרָנִ֔ים2
  • וְסַרְנֵ֣י2
  • וְסַרְנֵ֤י2
  • סַרְנֵֽי־2
  • הַסְּרָנִ֖ים1
  • וּלְסַרְנֵיכֶֽם׃1
  • לְסַרְנֵ֨י1
  • סַרְנֵ֨י1
  • סַרְנֵ֥י1
  • סַרְנֵ֤י1

The grammar of each form

  • noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)13HNcmpc
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)4HC/Ncmpc
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine plural3HTd/Ncmpa
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine plural1HC/R/Ncmpc/Sp2mp
  • preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc

Joshua

one use
  • All the territory of the Philistines and the Geshurites, from the Shihor east of Egypt to the territory of Ekron on the north (considered to be Canaanite territory)—that of the five Philistine rulers of Gaza, Ashdod, Ashkelon, Gath, and Ekron, as well as that of the Avvites;

    Joshua 13:3

    • סַרְנֵ֣יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of

Judges

eight uses
  • the five rulers of the Philistines, all the Canaanites, the Sidonians, and the Hivites who lived in the mountains of Lebanon from Mount Baal-hermon to Lebo-hamath.

    Judges 3:3

    • סַרְנֵ֣יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
  • The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him. Then each one of us will give you eleven hundred shekels of silver.”

    Judges 16:5

    • סַרְנֵ֣יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
  • So the lords of the Philistines brought her seven fresh bowstrings that had not been dried, and she tied him up with them.

    Judges 16:8

    • סַרְנֵ֣יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
  • When Delilah realized that he had revealed to her all that was in his heart, she sent this message to the lords of the Philistines: “Come up once more, for he has revealed to me all that is in his heart.” Then the lords of the Philistines came to her, bringing the money in their hands.

    Judges 16:18

    • לְסַרְנֵ֨יlesarneipreposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: to rulers of
    • סַרְנֵ֣יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
  • Now the lords of the Philistines gathered together to offer a great sacrifice to their god Dagon. They rejoiced and said, “Our god has delivered Samson our enemy into our hands.”

    Judges 16:23

    • וְסַרְנֵ֣יvesarneiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and rulers of
  • Now the temple was full of men and women; all the lords of the Philistines were there, and about three thousand men and women were on the roof watching Samson entertain them.

    Judges 16:27

    • סַרְנֵ֣יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
  • Samson said, “Let me die with the Philistines.” Then he pushed with all his might, and the temple fell on the lords and all the people in it. So in his death he killed more than he had killed in his life.

    Judges 16:30

    • הַסְּרָנִ֔יםhaseranimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the rulers

1 Samuel

eleven uses
  • So they called together all the rulers of the Philistines and asked, “What shall we do with the ark of the God of Israel?” “It must be moved to Gath,” they replied. So they carried away the ark of the God of Israel.

    1 Samuel 5:8

    • סַרְנֵ֨יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
  • Then the Ekronites assembled all the rulers of the Philistines and said, “Send away the ark of the God of Israel. It must return to its place, so that it will not kill us and our people!” For a deadly confusion had pervaded the city; the hand of God was heavy upon it.

    1 Samuel 5:11

    • סַרְנֵ֣יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
  • “What guilt offering should we send back to Him?” asked the Philistines. “Five gold tumors and five gold rats,” they said, “according to the number of rulers of the Philistines, since the same plague has struck both you and your rulers.

    1 Samuel 6:4

    • סַרְנֵ֣יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
    • וּלְסַרְנֵיכֶֽם׃ulesarneikhemconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: and to rulers your
  • And the cows headed straight up the road toward Beth-shemesh, staying on that one highway and lowing as they went, never straying to the right or to the left. The rulers of the Philistines followed behind them to the border of Beth-shemesh.

    1 Samuel 6:12

    • וְסַרְנֵ֤יvesarneiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and rulers of
  • And when the five rulers of the Philistines saw this, they returned to Ekron that same day.

    1 Samuel 6:16

    • סַרְנֵֽי־sarnei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
  • The number of gold rats also corresponded to the number of Philistine cities belonging to the five rulers—the fortified cities and their outlying villages. And the large rock on which they placed the ark of the LORD stands to this day in the field of Joshua of Beth-shemesh.

    1 Samuel 6:18

    • הַסְּרָנִ֔יםhaseranimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the rulers
  • When the Philistines heard that the Israelites had gathered at Mizpah, their rulers marched up toward Israel. And when the Israelites learned of this, they feared the Philistines

    1 Samuel 7:7

    • סַרְנֵֽי־sarnei-noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of
  • As the Philistine leaders marched out their units of hundreds and thousands, David and his men marched behind them with Achish.

    1 Samuel 29:2

    • וְסַרְנֵ֤יvesarneiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and rulers of
  • So Achish summoned David and told him, “As surely as the LORD lives, you have been upright in my sight, and it seems right that you should march in and out with me in the army, because I have found no fault in you from the day you came to me until this day. But you have no favor in the sight of the leaders.

    1 Samuel 29:6

    • הַסְּרָנִ֖יםhaseranimthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine pluraltagged: the rulers
  • Therefore turn back now and go in peace, so that you will not do anything to displease the leaders of the Philistines.”

    1 Samuel 29:7

    • סַרְנֵ֥יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of

1 Kings

one use
  • Each stand had four bronze wheels with bronze axles and a basin resting on four supports, with wreaths at each side.

    1 Kings 7:30

    • וְסַרְנֵ֣יvesarneiconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and axles of

1 Chronicles

one use
  • Some from Manasseh defected to David when he went with the Philistines to fight against Saul. (They did not help the Philistines because the Philistine rulers consulted and sent David away, saying, “It will cost us our heads if he defects to his master Saul.”)

    1 Chronicles 12:19

    • סַרְנֵ֤יsarneinoun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: rulers of

The letters

Gematria 310· 960 mispar gadol

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.

The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.

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 TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

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

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