Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H8297
שָׂרַי
Saraysaw-rah'-ee
Sarai
17 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Sâray
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8297is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 1 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8297
Sarai, the wife of Abraham
The King James renders it: Sarai.
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
Saray is rendered "Sarai". It stands 17 times in the Hebrew text, across one book.
- Seventeen of the uses stand in Genesis, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:29And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
Genesis 11:29שָׂרָ֔י
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
Seventeen of the word's seventeen uses are in Genesis.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- Sarai16
- and Sarai1
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.
All 17, 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
- שָׂרַ֣י6
- שָׂרַ֖י2
- וְשָׂרַי֙1
- שָׂרַ֨י1
- שָׂרַ֜י1
- שָׂרַ֗י1
- שָׂרַ֔י1
- שָׂרַ֛י1
- שָׂרָ֔י1
- שָׂרָ֑י1
- שָׂרָֽי׃1
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)16HNpf
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)1HC/Npf
Genesis
seventeen uses
And Abram and Nahor took wives for themselves. Abram’s wife was named Sarai, and Nahor’s wife was named Milcah; she was the daughter of Haran, who was the father of both Milcah and Iscah.
- שָׂרָ֔יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
But Sarai was barren; she had no children.
- שָׂרַ֖יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
And Terah took his son Abram, his grandson Lot son of Haran, and his daughter-in-law Sarai the wife of Abram, and they set out from Ur of the Chaldeans for the land of Canaan. But when they arrived in Haran, they settled there.
- שָׂרַ֣יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
And Abram took his wife Sarai, his nephew Lot, and all the possessions and people they had acquired in Haran, and set out for the land of Canaan. When they came to the land of Canaan,
- שָׂרַ֨יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
As he was about to enter Egypt, he said to his wife Sarai, “Look, I know that you are a beautiful woman,
- שָׂרַ֣יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
The LORD, however, afflicted Pharaoh and his household with severe plagues because of Abram’s wife Sarai.
- שָׂרַ֖יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
Now Abram’s wife Sarai had borne him no children, but she had an Egyptian maidservant named Hagar.
- וְשָׂרַי֙vesaraiconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Sarai
So Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD has prevented me from bearing children. Please go to my maidservant; perhaps I can build a family by her.” And Abram listened to the voice of Sarai.
- שָׂרַ֜יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
- שָׂרָֽי׃saraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
So after he had lived in Canaan for ten years, his wife Sarai took her Egyptian maidservant Hagar and gave her to Abram to be his wife.
- שָׂרַ֣יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
Then Sarai said to Abram, “May the wrong done to me be upon you! I delivered my servant into your arms, and ever since she saw that she was pregnant, she has treated me with contempt. May the LORD judge between you and me.”
- שָׂרַ֣יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
“Here,” said Abram, “your servant is in your hands. Do whatever you want with her.” Then Sarai treated Hagar so harshly that she fled from her.
- שָׂרַ֗יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
- שָׂרַ֔יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
“Hagar, servant of Sarai,” he said, “where have you come from, and where are you going?” “I am running away from my mistress Sarai,” she replied.
- שָׂרַ֛יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
- שָׂרַ֣יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
Then God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, do not call her Sarai, for her name is to be Sarah.
- שָׂרַ֣יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
- שָׂרָ֑יsaraiproper noun (a name)tagged: Sarai
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 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.