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# סָרַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5637

**be stubborn** — used 17 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

be stubborn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5637/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סָרַר: vb. be stubborn, rebellious Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5637/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. be stubborn, rebellious (usually towards י׳) (NH id., (rare); Assyrian sarâru);— Pf. 3 ms. ס׳ יִשְׂרָאֵל Ho 4:16 Isr. is stubborn; Pt. act. בֵּן סוֹרֵר וּמוֹרֶה Dt 21:18, cf. v 20; בָּנִים סוֹרְרִים Is 30:1, עַם סוֹרֵר 65:2, דּוֹר ס׳ וּמֹרֶה ψ 78:8 (all of Isr.); לֵב ס׳ וּמוֹרֶה Je 5:23; פָּרָה סֹרֵרָ֔ה Ho 4:16 (sim. of Isr., v. supr.); as pred. שָׂרֵיהֶם סוֹרְרִים Ho 9:15 cf. Is 1:23; סָרֵי סוֹרְרִים Je 6:28 revolters among the rebellious (? cf. סור Qal ad fin., and סַר infr.); of loose woman הֹמִיָּה הִיא וְסוֹרָ֑רֶת Pr 7:11; as subst. = the stubborn, ψ 66:7; 68:7, 19; fs. וַיִּתְּנוּ כָתֵף סֹרֶ֫רֶת Ne 9:29 and they presented a stubborn shoulder (of Isr.) = Zc 7:11 (סֹרָ֑רֶת).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 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: stubborn (6); \[those who are\] rebellious (2); rebellious (2).

## In the verses

[Proverbs 7:11](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.11/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PRO.7.11/#tree)

הֹמִיָּ֣ה הִ֣יא וְסֹרָ֑רֶת בְּ֝בֵיתָ֗הּ לֹא־יִשְׁכְּנ֥וּ רַגְלֶֽיהָ׃

*Word for word:* \[is\].boisterous she and rebellious in house her not they.stay feet her

*JPS 1917:* She is riotous and rebellious, her feet abide not in her house;

[Jeremiah 6:28](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.28/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JER.6.28/#tree)

כֻּלָּם֙ סָרֵ֣י סֽוֹרְרִ֔ים הֹלְכֵ֥י רָכִ֖יל נְחֹ֣שֶׁת וּבַרְזֶ֑ל כֻּלָּ֥ם מַשְׁחִיתִ֖ים הֵֽמָּה׃

*Word for word:* of.them all \[are.those.who\].turn.aside of.rebels \[who\].go.about of.slander bronze and iron of.them all \[are\].behaving.corruptly they

*JPS 1917:* They are all grievous revolters, going about with slanders; they are brass and iron; they all of them deal corruptly.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5637.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5637/): 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).