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# שָׂרָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8280

**persist** — 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

persist [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8280/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂרָה²: vb. persist, exert oneself, persevere [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8280/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** vb. persist, exert oneself, persevere (Arabic شَرِىَ persist, persevere);— Pf. 3 ms. שׂ׳ אֶת־א׳ Ho 12:4 he persevered with God; 2 ms. שָׂרִיתָ עִם־א׳ וְעִם אֲנָשִׁים Gn 32:29 (J).—Ho 12:5 has Impf. וַיָּ֫שַׂר in same meaning, as if from a (non-existent) שׂוּר; וַיִּ֫שֶׂר (apoc. from וַיִּשְׂרֶה).—שׂוֹרָה Is 28:25 v. supra, p. 965a.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 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, 0 with the glosses (12 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: he struggled (2); you have struggled (1).

## In the verses

[Hosea 12:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/HOS.12.4/#tree)

בַּבֶּ֖טֶן עָקַ֣ב אֶת־אָחִ֑יו וּבְאוֹנ֖וֹ שָׂרָ֥ה אֶת־אֱלֹהִֽים׃

*Word for word:* in the womb he.took.by.the.heel (et) brother his and in strength his he.struggled with God

*JPS 1917:* In the womb he took his brother by the heel, and by his strength he strove with a godlike being;

[Genesis 32:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/GEN.32.29/#tree)

וַיֹּ֗אמֶר לֹ֤א יַעֲקֹב֙ יֵאָמֵ֥ר עוֹד֙ שִׁמְךָ֔ כִּ֖י אִם־יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל כִּֽי־שָׂרִ֧יתָ עִם־אֱלֹהִ֛ים וְעִם־אֲנָשִׁ֖ים וַתּוּכָֽל׃

*Word for word:* and he.said not Jacob it.will.be.called again name your (dm) (if) Israel (dm) you.have.struggled with God and with people and you.have.prevailed

*JPS 1917:* And he said: 'Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel; for thou hast striven with God and with men, and hast prevailed.'

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8280.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8280/): 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).