Hebrew verb · H5637
סָרַר
sararsaw-rar'
to rebel
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: çârar
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H5637is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 15spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H5637
to turn away, i.e. (morally) be refractory
The King James renders it: [idiom] away, backsliding, rebellious, revolter(-ing), slide back, stubborn, withdrew.
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
sarar is rendered "to rebel". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Four of the uses stand in Psalms, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Deuteronomy 21:18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
- The Greek text spells it fifteen different ways.
The first use
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
Deuteronomy 21:18סוֹרֵ֣ר
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight of the 39 Old Testament books.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- stubborn7
- rebellious5
- rebels2
- and rebellious1
- it is stubborn1
- the rebellious1
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 17, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
15 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
- סוֹרֵ֣ר3
- הַסּוֹרְרִ֓ים׀1
- וְסֹרָ֑רֶת1
- סוֹרֵ֪ר1
- סוֹרֵ֑ר1
- ס֝וֹרְרִ֗ים1
- סוֹרְרִ֗ים1
- סֽוֹרְרִים֙1
- סֽוֹרְרִ֔ים1
- ס֝וֹרֲרִ֗ים1
- סוֹרֶ֔רֶת1
- סָרַ֖ר1
and 3 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural6HVqrmpa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singular5HVqrmsa
- verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular3HVqrfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singular1HC/Vqrfsa
- the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine plural1HTd/Vqrmpa
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
Deuteronomy
two uses
If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who does not obey his father and mother and does not listen to them when disciplined,
- סוֹרֵ֣רsorerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: stubborn
and say to the elders, “This son of ours is stubborn and rebellious; he does not obey us. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”
- סוֹרֵ֣רsorerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: stubborn
Nehemiah
one use
You admonished them to turn back to Your law, but they were arrogant and disobeyed Your commandments. They sinned against Your ordinances, by which a man will live if he practices them. They stubbornly shrugged their shoulders; they stiffened their necks and would not obey.
- סוֹרֶ֔רֶתsoreretverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: stubborn
Psalms
four uses
He rules forever by His power; His eyes watch the nations. Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah
- הַסּוֹרְרִ֓ים׀hasorimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: the rebellious
God settles the lonely in families; He leads the prisoners out to prosperity, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
- ס֝וֹרֲרִ֗יםsorarimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: rebellious
You have ascended on high; You have led captives away. You have received gifts from men, even from the rebellious, that the LORD God may dwell there.
- ס֝וֹרְרִ֗יםsorimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: rebellious
Then they will not be like their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, whose heart was not loyal, whose spirit was not faithful to God.
- סוֹרֵ֪רsorerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: stubborn
Proverbs
one use
She is loud and defiant; her feet do not remain at home.
- וְסֹרָ֑רֶתvesoraretconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: and rebellious
Isaiah
three uses
Your rulers are rebels, friends of thieves. They all love bribes and chasing after rewards. They do not defend the fatherless, and the plea of the widow never comes before them.
- סוֹרְרִ֗יםsorimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: rebels
“Woe to the rebellious children,” declares the LORD, “to those who carry out a plan that is not Mine, who form an alliance, but against My will, heaping up sin upon sin.
- סֽוֹרְרִים֙sorimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: rebellious
All day long I have held out My hands to an obstinate people who walk in the wrong path, who follow their own imaginations,
- סוֹרֵ֑רsorerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: rebellious
Jeremiah
two uses
But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone away.
- סוֹרֵ֣רsorerverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: stubborn
All are hardened rebels, walking around as slanderers. They are bronze and iron; all of them are corrupt.
- סֽוֹרְרִ֔יםsorimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: rebels
Hosea
three uses
For Israel is as obstinate as a stubborn heifer. Can the LORD now shepherd them like lambs in an open meadow?
- סֹֽרֵרָ֔הsorerahverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: stubborn
- סָרַ֖רsararverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it is stubborn
All their evil appears at Gilgal, for there I hated them. I will drive them from My house for the wickedness of their deeds. I will no longer love them; all their leaders are rebellious.
- סֹרְרִֽים׃sorerimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: rebellious
Zechariah
one use
But they refused to pay attention and turned a stubborn shoulder; they stopped up their ears from hearing.
- סֹרָ֑רֶתsoraretverb · simple (qal), participle · feminine singulartagged: stubborn
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.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.