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# סַר

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H5620

**stubborn** — used 3 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

stubborn [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5620/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

סַר²: adj. stubborn, resentful, sullen, implacable Qal [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5620/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** adj. stubborn, resentful, sullen, implacable;—סַר וְזָעֵף 1 K 20:43; 21:4; f. מַה־זֶּה רוּחֲךָ סָרָ֫ה v 5 why then is thy spirit sullen? poss. also pl. cstr. סָרֵי סוֹרְרִים Je 6:28 revolters (stubborn ones) among, etc. (v. supr. and סור Qal ad fin.).

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (9 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 0 with the glosses (9 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: sullen (3).

## In the verses

[1 Kings 20:43](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.43/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.20.43/#tree)

וַיֵּ֧לֶךְ מֶֽלֶךְ־יִשְׂרָאֵ֛ל עַל־בֵּית֖וֹ סַ֣ר וְזָעֵ֑ף וַיָּבֹ֖א שֹׁמְרֽוֹנָה׃פ

*Word for word:* and he.went the.king of.Israel to house his sullen and furious and he.went to Samaria

*JPS 1917:* And the king of Israel went to his house sullen and displeased, and came to Samaria.

[1 Kings 21:5](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.5/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.21.5/#tree)

וַתָּבֹ֥א אֵלָ֖יו אִיזֶ֣בֶל אִשְׁתּ֑וֹ וַתְּדַבֵּ֣ר אֵלָ֗יו מַה־זֶּה֙ רוּחֲךָ֣ סָרָ֔ה וְאֵינְךָ֖ אֹכֵ֥ל לָֽחֶם׃

*Word for word:* and she.came to him Jezebel wife his and she.spoke to him why? this spirit \[is\].your sullen and not you \[are\].eating food

*JPS 1917:* But Jezebel his wife came to him, and said unto him: 'Why is thy spirit so sullen, that thou eatest no bread?'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/5620.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1505/5620/): 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).