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# סָרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5627

**turning aside** — used 1 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 1 verse word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

turning aside [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5627/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָרָה: n.f. turning aside, defection, apostasy, withdrawal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5627/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. a turning aside, defection, apostasy, withdrawal;—always abs. ס׳;— defection, used appar. of any moral or legal offence Dt 19:16, so prob. Is 59:13 (+ עֹשֶׁק, דִּבְרֵי שָׁ֑קֶר). apostasy, Dt 13:6 Is 1:5; 31:6 Je 28:16; 29:32. בִּלְתִּי סָרָה non-withdrawal Is 14:6 (cf. vb., v 25 Am 6:7).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: ceasing (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 14:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.6/#tree)

מַכֶּ֤ה עַמִּים֙ בְּעֶבְרָ֔ה מַכַּ֖ת בִּלְתִּ֣י סָרָ֑ה רֹדֶ֤ה בָאַף֙ גּוֹיִ֔ם מֻרְדָּ֖ף בְּלִ֥י חָשָֽׂךְ׃

*Word for word:* \[which\].struck peoples in wrath a.blow (of).not ceasing \[which\].ruled in anger nations persecution \[which\].not anyone.restrained

*JPS 1917:* That smote the peoples in wrath with an incessant stroke, that ruled the nations in anger, with a persecution that none restrained.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5627.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5627/): 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).