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# סִיסְרָא

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5516

**Sisera** — used 21 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

Sisera [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5516/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סִיסְרָא: n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5516/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (GFM Ju 4:2; PAOS xix (1898), 160 cp. Hittite names in -sira);— general of Jabin, king of Hazor Ju 4:2 + 12 times Ju 4; appar. himself king 5:20, 26, 28, 30; cf. 1 S 12:9 ψ 83:10;—on ס׳ v. GFM Ju, 107 ff.; PAOS l.c.; 𝔊 Σ(ε)ισαρα. בְּנֵי־סִיסְרָא, returned exiles, Ezr 2:53 = Ne 7:55; 𝔊 Σεισαραθ, Σισαρα, etc.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 8 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: Sisera (15); of Sisera (5); \[was\] Sisera (1).

## In the verses

[Ezra 2:53](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.53/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/EZR.2.53/#tree)

בְּנֵי־בַרְק֥וֹס בְּֽנֵי־סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּנֵי־תָֽמַח׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Barkos the.descendants of.Sisera the.descendants of.Temah

*JPS 1917:* the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah;

[Nehemiah 7:55](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.55/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.7.55/#tree)

בְּנֵי־בַרְק֥וֹס בְּֽנֵי־סִֽיסְרָ֖א בְּנֵי־תָֽמַח׃

*Word for word:* the.descendants of.Barkos the.descendants of.Sisera the.descendants of.Temah

*JPS 1917:* the children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5516.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5516/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).