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# שְׂרָיָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8304

**Seraiah** — used 19 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

Seraiah [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8304/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂרָיָה(וּ): n.pr.m. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8304/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.pr.m. (י׳ persisteth DrHastDict. Bib. ii. 530 Jacob);—usually Σαραια(ς);—שְׂרָיָה: secretary of David 2 S 8:17, but 𝔊B Ασα, ‖ שיא 20:25 Kt (שְׁוָא Qr), שַׁוְשָׁא 1 Ch 18:16 (in both Ἰησοῦς, 𝔊L Σουσα), שִׁישָׁא 1 K 4:3 (Σαβα, A Σεισα, 𝔊L Σαφατ); orig. in all prob. ששא We Dr Klo (Sausa), HPS (שושא), Now, Bu. chief priest 2 K 25:18 = Je 52:24. a captain 2 K 25:23; Je 40:8; 51:59(×2), 61. son of Ḳenaz 1 Ch 4:13, 14. name in Simeon v 35. Levite name 5:40(×2). companion of Zerub. Ezr 2:2. father of Ezra 7:1. one sealed Ne 10:3. priest 11:11; 12:1, 12. שְׂרָיָהוּ, officer of king Jehoiakim, Je 36:26, τῷ Σαρεα.

Why these entries: BDB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 16 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (19 candidates); OSHB: same consonants, part of speech agrees, 0 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: Seraiah (17); of Seraiah (2).

## In the verses

[Nehemiah 10:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/NEH.10.3/#tree)

שְׂרָיָ֥ה עֲזַרְיָ֖ה יִרְמְיָֽה׃

*Word for word:* Seraiah Azariah Jeremiah

*JPS 1917:* Seraiah, Azariah, Jeremiah;

[1 Chronicles 4:13](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.13/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/1CH.4.13/#tree)

וּבְנֵ֣י קְנַ֔ז עָתְנִיאֵ֖ל וּשְׂרָיָ֑ה וּבְנֵ֥י עָתְנִיאֵ֖ל חֲתַֽת׃

*Word for word:* and the.sons of.Kenaz \[were\].Othniel and Seraiah and the.sons of.Othniel \[were\].Hathath

*JPS 1917:* And the sons of Kenaz: Othniel, and Seraiah; and the sons of Othniel: Hathath.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8304.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8304/): 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).