Hebrew proper noun (a person) · H8304
שְׂרָיָה
Serayahser-aw-yaw'
Seraiah
20 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: Sᵉrâyâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8304is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 6 of 39Old Testament books
- 13spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8304
Serajah, the name of nine Israelites
The King James renders it: Seraiah.
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
Serayah is rendered "Seraiah". It stands 20 times in the Hebrew text, across six books.
- Six of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.2 Samuel 8:17Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;
- The Greek text spells it thirteen different ways.
The first use
Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;
2 Samuel 8:17וּשְׂרָיָ֖ה
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
- Seraiah12
- and Seraiah7
- of Seraiah1
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 20, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
13 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
- וּשְׂרָיָ֖ה3
- וּשְׂרָיָ֨ה2
- שְׂרָיָה֙2
- שְׂרָיָ֔ה2
- שְׂרָיָ֥ה2
- שְׂרָיָ֨ה2
- וּשְׂרָיָ֑ה1
- וּשְׂרָיָ֗ה1
- לִשְׂרָיָ֣ה1
- שְׂרָיָ֖ה1
- שְׂרָיָ֣ה1
- שְׂרָיָ֑ה1
and 1 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- proper noun (a name)12HNpm
- conjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)7HC/Npm
- preposition + proper noun (a name)1HR/Npm
2 Samuel
one use
Zadok son of Ahitub and Ahimelech son of Abiathar were priests; Seraiah was the scribe;
- וּשְׂרָיָ֖הuserayahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Seraiah
2 Kings
two uses
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- שְׂרָיָה֙serayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
When all the commanders of the armies and their men heard that the king of Babylon had appointed Gedaliah as governor, they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan son of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah son of the Maacathite, as well as their men.
- וּשְׂרָיָ֨הuserayahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Seraiah
1 Chronicles
five uses
The sons of Kenaz: Othniel and Seraiah. The sons of Othniel: Hathath and Meonothai.
- וּשְׂרָיָ֑הuserayahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Seraiah
Meonothai was the father of Ophrah, and Seraiah was the father of Joab, the father of those living in Ge-harashim, which was given this name because its people were craftsmen.
- וּשְׂרָיָ֗הuserayahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Seraiah
Joel, Jehu son of Joshibiah (son of Seraiah, son of Asiel),
- שְׂרָיָ֖הserayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
Azariah was the father of Seraiah, and Seraiah was the father of Jehozadak.
- שְׂרָיָ֔הserayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
- וּשְׂרָיָ֖הuserayahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Seraiah
Ezra
two uses
accompanied by Zerubbabel, Jeshua, Nehemiah, Seraiah, Reelaiah, Mordecai, Bilshan, Mispar, Bigvai, Rehum, and Baanah. This is the count of the men of Israel:
- שְׂרָיָ֨הserayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
Many years later, during the reign of Artaxerxes king of Persia, Ezra son of Seraiah, the son of Azariah, the son of Hilkiah,
- שְׂרָיָ֔הserayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
Nehemiah
four uses
Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah,
- שְׂרָיָ֥הserayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
Jedaiah son of Joiarib; Jachin; Seraiah son of Hilkiah, the son of Meshullam, the son of Zadok, the son of Meraioth, the son of Ahitub, the chief official of the house of God;
- שְׂרָיָ֨הserayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
Now these are the priests and Levites who went up with Zerubbabel son of Shealtiel and with Jeshua: Seraiah, Jeremiah, Ezra,
- שְׂרָיָ֥הserayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
In the days of Joiakim, these were the heads of the priestly families: of the family of Seraiah, Meraiah; of Jeremiah, Hananiah;
- לִשְׂרָיָ֣הlisrayahpreposition + proper noun (a name)tagged: of Seraiah
Jeremiah
six uses
Instead, the king commanded Jerahmeel, a son of the king, as well as Seraiah son of Azriel and Shelemiah son of Abdeel, to seize Baruch the scribe and Jeremiah the prophet. But the LORD had hidden them.
- שְׂרָיָ֣הוּserayahuproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
they came to Gedaliah at Mizpah—Ishmael son of Nethaniah, Johanan and Jonathan the sons of Kareah, Seraiah son of Tanhumeth, the sons of Ephai the Netophathite, and Jezaniah son of the Maacathite—they and their men.
- וּשְׂרָיָ֨הuserayahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Seraiah
This is the message that Jeremiah the prophet gave to the quartermaster Seraiah son of Neriah, the son of Mahseiah, when he went to Babylon with King Zedekiah of Judah in the fourth year of Zedekiah’s reign.
- שְׂרָיָ֣הserayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
- וּשְׂרָיָ֖הuserayahconjunction (“and”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: and Seraiah
And Jeremiah said to Seraiah, “When you get to Babylon, see that you read all these words aloud,
- שְׂרָיָ֑הserayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
The captain of the guard also took away Seraiah the chief priest, Zephaniah the priest of second rank, and the three doorkeepers.
- שְׂרָיָה֙serayahproper noun (a name)tagged: Seraiah
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.