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# שֶׂרַח

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8294

**Sarah** — 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

Sarah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8294/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שֶׂ֫רַח: n.pr.f. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8294/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.f. (cf. Sab. n.pr.m. שרח SabDenkm.No. 20, 1. 1, and p. 72, שרחאל Id.No. 13, 1.2.12, אלשרך DHMEpigr. Denkm. Arab. lxxii);—daughter of Asher Gn 46:17; 1 Ch 7:30, שָׂ֑רַח Nu 26:46; Σααρ, Σαρ(ρ)α, etc.; 𝔊B Nu Καρα.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 3 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Serah (2); \[was\] Serah (1).

## In the verses

[Numbers 26:46](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.46/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.26.46/#tree)

וְשֵׁ֥ם בַּת־אָשֵׁ֖ר שָֽׂרַח׃

*Word for word:* and the.name of.the.daughter of.Asher \[was\].Serah

*JPS 1917:* And the name of the daughter of Asher was Serah.

[1 Chronicles 7:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.7.30/#tree)

בְּנֵ֣י אָשֵׁ֗ר יִמְנָ֧ה וְיִשְׁוָ֛ה וְיִשְׁוִ֥י וּבְרִיעָ֖ה וְשֶׂ֥רַח אֲחוֹתָֽם׃

*Word for word:* the.sons of.Asher \[were\].Imnah and Ishvah and Ishvi and Beriah and Serah sister \[was\].their

*JPS 1917:* The sons of Asher: Imnah, and Ishvah, and Ishvi, and Beriah, and Serah their sister.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8294.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8294/): 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).