Hebrew verb · H8280
שָׂרָה
sarahsaw-raw'
to strive
2 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sârâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8280is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 2spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8280
to prevail
The King James renders it: have power (as a prince).
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
sarah is rendered "to strive". It stands 2 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- One of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 32:28Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- The Greek text spells it two different ways.
The first use
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
Genesis 32:28שָׂרִ֧יתָ
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
- he struggled1
- you have struggled1
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׂרַף | saraph | to burn | Uses117 |
| שָׂרִיד | sarid | survivor | Uses28 |
| שָׂרָף | saraph | serpent | Uses7 |
| שָׂרָה | sarah | princess | Uses5 |
| שָׂרַר | sarar | to rule | Uses5 |
| שָׂרַט | sarat | to incise | Uses3 |
| שָׂרַע | sara | to extend | Uses3 |
| שָׂרִיג | sarig | tendril | Uses3 |
| שָׂרַג | sarag | to intertwine | Uses2 |
| שָׂרַד | sarad | to escape | Uses1 |
| שָׂרֻק | saruq | sorrel | Uses1 |
| שָׂרוּק | saruq | tendril | Uses1 |
and 1 more on the stem.
Other numbers on this spelling
Strong gave these words the same spelling and different numbers, so the site counts and defines them apart.
All 2, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
2 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
- שָׂרָ֥ה1
- שָׂרִ֧יתָ1
The grammar of each form
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singular1HVqp2ms
- verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular1HVqp3ms
Genesis
one use
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
- שָׂרִ֧יתָsaritaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you have struggled
Hosea
one use
In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.
- שָׂרָ֥הsarahverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he struggled
Where it leads
On this page
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 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.