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# סָרָה

Biblical Hebrew

**turning aside** — used 7 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

turning aside [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָרָה: n.f. turning aside, defection, apostasy, withdrawal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/#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, 7 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (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: rebellion (7).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 31:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.31.6/#tree)

שׁ֗וּבוּ לַאֲשֶׁ֛ר הֶעְמִ֥יקוּ סָרָ֖ה בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃

*Word for word:* return to \[the.one\].whom people.have.made.deep rebellion O.people of.Israel

*JPS 1917:* Turn ye unto Him against whom ye have deeply rebelled, O children of Israel.

[Deuteronomy 19:16](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.16/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/DEU.19.16/#tree)

כִּֽי־יָק֥וּם עֵד־חָמָ֖ס בְּאִ֑ישׁ לַעֲנ֥וֹת בּ֖וֹ סָרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* (dm) he.will.stand a.witness of.injustice in anyone to testify against him rebellion

*JPS 1917:* If an unrighteous witness rise up against any man to bear perverted witness against him;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/lemma_3a_5e1_5b8_5e8_5b8_5d4/): 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).