Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H8283
שָׂרָה
Sarahsaw-raw'
Sarah
38 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 H8283is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 19spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8283
Sarah, Abraham's wife
The King James renders it: Sarah.
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 "Sarah". It stands 38 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Thirty-seven of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 17:15Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
- The Greek text spells it nineteen different ways.
The first use
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
Genesis 17:15שָׂרָ֖ה
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
- Sarah29
- and Sarah3
- to Sarah3
- and to Sarah2
- for Sarah1
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 |
| שָׂרָה | sarah | to strive | Uses2 |
| שָׂרַד | sarad | to escape | Uses1 |
| שָׂרֻק | saruq | sorrel | Uses1 |
and 2 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.
The words it stands beside
All 38, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
19 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
- שָׂרָ֖ה8
- שָׂרָ֣ה5
- שָׂרָ֔ה3
- וְשָׂרָ֥ה2
- לְשָׂרָ֖ה2
- שָׂרָ֑ה2
- שָׂרָ֜ה2
- שָׂרָ֥ה2
- שָׂרָֽה׃2
- וּלְשָׂרָ֥ה1
- וּלְשָׂרָ֣ה1
- וְשָׂרָה֙1
and 7 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)29HNpf
- preposition + proper noun (a name)4HR/Npf
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)3HC/Npf
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)2HC/R/Npf
Genesis
thirty-seven uses
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
- שָׂרָ֖הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
Abraham fell facedown. Then he laughed and said to himself, “Can a child be born to a man who is a hundred years old? Can Sarah give birth at the age of ninety?”
- שָׂרָ֔הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
But God replied, “Your wife Sarah will indeed bear you a son, and you are to name him Isaac. I will establish My covenant with him as an everlasting covenant for his descendants after him.
- שָׂרָ֣הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
But I will establish My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this time next year.”
- שָׂרָה֙sarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
So Abraham hurried into the tent and said to Sarah, “Quick! Prepare three seahs of fine flour, knead it, and bake some bread.”
- שָׂרָ֑הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
“Where is your wife Sarah?” they asked. “There, in the tent,” he replied.
- שָׂרָ֣הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
Then the LORD said, “I will surely return to you at this time next year, and your wife Sarah will have a son!” Now Sarah was behind him, listening at the entrance to the tent.
- לְשָׂרָ֣הlesarahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sarah
- וְשָׂרָ֥הvesarahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Sarah
And Abraham and Sarah were already old and well along in years; Sarah had passed the age of childbearing.
- וְשָׂרָה֙vesarahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Sarah
- לְשָׂרָ֔הlesarahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sarah
So she laughed to herself, saying, “After I am worn out and my master is old, will I now have this pleasure?”
- שָׂרָ֖הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
And the LORD asked Abraham, “Why did Sarah laugh and say, ‘Can I really bear a child when I am old?’
- שָׂרָ֜הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
Is anything too difficult for the LORD? At the appointed time I will return to you—in about a year—and Sarah will have a son.”
- וּלְשָׂרָ֥הulesarahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Sarah
But Sarah was afraid, so she denied it and said, “I did not laugh.” “No,” replied the LORD, “but you did laugh.”
- שָׂרָ֧ה׀sarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
Abraham said of his wife Sarah, “She is my sister.” So Abimelech king of Gerar had Sarah brought to him.
- שָׂרָ֥הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
- שָׂרָֽה׃sarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
So Abimelech brought sheep and cattle, menservants and maidservants, and he gave them to Abraham and restored his wife Sarah to him.
- שָׂרָ֥הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
And he said to Sarah, “See, I am giving your brother a thousand pieces of silver. It is your vindication before all who are with you; you are completely cleared.”
- וּלְשָׂרָ֣הulesarahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: and to Sarah
for on account of Abraham’s wife Sarah, the LORD had completely closed all the wombs in Abimelech’s household.
- שָׂרָ֖הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
Now the LORD attended to Sarah as He had said, and the LORD did for Sarah what He had promised.
- שָׂרָ֖הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
- לְשָׂרָ֖הlesarahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: to Sarah
So Sarah conceived and bore a son to Abraham in his old age, at the very time God had promised.
- שָׂרָ֧הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
And Abraham gave the name Isaac to the son Sarah bore to him.
- שָׂרָ֖הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
Then Sarah said, “God has made me laugh, and everyone who hears of this will laugh with me.”
- שָׂרָ֔הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
She added, “Who would have told Abraham that Sarah would nurse children? Yet I have borne him a son in his old age.”
- שָׂרָ֑הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
But Sarah saw that the son whom Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham was mocking her son,
- שָׂרָ֜הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
But God said to Abraham, “Do not be distressed about the boy and your maidservant. Listen to everything that Sarah tells you, for through Isaac your offspring will be reckoned.
- שָׂרָ֖הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
Now Sarah lived to be 127 years old.
- שָׂרָ֔הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
- שָׂרָֽה׃sarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
She died in Kiriath-arba (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan, and Abraham went out to mourn and to weep for her.
- שָׂרָ֗הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
- לְשָׂרָ֖הlesarahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: for Sarah
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave of the field at Machpelah near Mamre (that is, Hebron) in the land of Canaan.
- שָׂרָ֣הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
My master’s wife Sarah has borne him a son in her old age, and my master has given him everything he owns.
- שָׂרָה֩sarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
And Isaac brought her into the tent of his mother Sarah and took Rebekah as his wife. And Isaac loved her and was comforted after his mother’s death.
- שָׂרָ֣הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
This was the field that Abraham had bought from the Hittites. Abraham was buried there with his wife Sarah.
- וְשָׂרָ֥הvesarahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Sarah
This is the account of Abraham’s son Ishmael, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah’s maidservant, bore to Abraham.
- שָׂרָ֖הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
There Abraham and his wife Sarah are buried, there Isaac and his wife Rebekah are buried, and there I buried Leah.
- שָׂרָ֣הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
Isaiah
one use
Look to Abraham your father, and to Sarah who gave you birth. When I called him, he was but one; then I blessed him and multiplied him.
- שָׂרָ֖הsarahproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarah
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.