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# שָׂרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8282

**princess** — used 5 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

princess [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8282/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂרָה³: n.f. princess, noble lady [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8282/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. princess, noble lady;—cstr. שָׂרָ֫תִי (Ges§ 90 l) La 1:1; pl. שָׂרוֹת 1 K 11:3, cstr. id. Est 1:18; sf. שָׂרוֹתֶיהָ Ju 5:29, -תֵיהֶם Is 49:23;—princesses attending Sisera’s mother Ju 5:29; of Sol.’s wives 1 K 11:3, other queens Is 49:23 (‖ מְלָכִים); wives of nobles Est 1:18; fig. of Jerus. La 1:1.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (19 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a princess (1); her noble ladies (1); noble ladies (1).

## In the verses

[Judges 5:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/JDG.5.29/#tree)

חַכְמ֥וֹת שָׂרוֹתֶ֖יהָ תַּעֲנֶ֑ינָּה אַף־הִ֕יא תָּשִׁ֥יב אֲמָרֶ֖יהָ לָֽהּ׃

*Word for word:* the.wise.\[women\] her.noble.ladies her they.answered also she she.brought.back words her to herself

*JPS 1917:* The wisest of her princesses answer her, yea, she returneth answer to herself:

[1 Kings 11:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/1KI.11.3/#tree)

וַיְהִי־ל֣וֹ נָשִׁ֗ים שָׂרוֹת֙ שְׁבַ֣ע מֵא֔וֹת וּפִֽלַגְשִׁ֖ים שְׁלֹ֣שׁ מֵא֑וֹת וַיַּטּ֥וּ נָשָׁ֖יו אֶת־לִבּֽוֹ׃

*Word for word:* and it.belonged to him wives noble.ladies seven hundred(s) and concubines three hundred(s) and they.turned.aside wives his (et) heart his

*JPS 1917:* And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8282.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8282/): 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).