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H8269שַׂרsar

rulerPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)

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Occurrences by book

  1. 25
  2. 10
  3. Leviticus: 0
  4. 17
  5. 5
  6. 2
  7. 9
  8. Ruth: 0
  9. 17
  10. 15
  11. 25
  12. 25
  13. 47
  14. 51
  15. 11
  16. 17
  17. 15
  18. 4
  19. 9
  20. 3
  21. 3
  22. Song of Songs: 0
  23. 17
  24. 56
  25. 4
  26. 3
  27. 18
  28. 8
  29. Joel: 0
  30. 2
  31. Obadiah: 0
  32. Jonah: 0
  33. 1
  34. Nahum: 0
  35. Habakkuk: 0
  36. 2
  37. Haggai: 0
  38. Zechariah: 0
  39. Malachi: 0

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421 occurrences in 368 verses

With their references and text in Bible in Basic English.

  1. 1 Kings 22:32

    So when the captains of the war-carriages saw Jehoshaphat, they said, Truly, this is the king of Israel; and turning against him, they came round him, but Jehoshaphat gave a cry.

    שָׂרֵ֨י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  2. 1 Kings 22:33

    And when the captains of the war-carriages saw that he was not the king of Israel, they went back from going after him.

    שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  3. 2 Kings 1:9

    Then the king sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he went up to him where he was seated on the top of a hill, and said to him, O man of God, the king has said, Come down.

    שַׂר־ sar- “a commander of”

  4. 2 Kings 1:10

    And Elijah in answer said to the captain of fifty, If I am a man of God, may fire come down from heaven on you and on your fifty men, and put an end to you. Then fire came down from heaven and put an end to him and his fifty men.

    שַׂ֣ר sar “[the] commander of”

  5. 2 Kings 1:11

    Then the king sent another captain of fifty with his fifty men; and he said to Elijah, O man of God, the king says, Come down quickly.

    שַׂר־ sar- “a commander of”

  6. 2 Kings 1:13

    Then he sent a third captain of fifty with his fifty men; and the third captain of fifty went up, and falling on his knees before Elijah, requesting mercy of him, said, O man of God, let my life and the life of these your fifty servants be of value to yo

    שַׂר־ sar- “a commander of”שַׂר־ sar- “[the] commander of”

  7. 2 Kings 1:14

    For fire came down from heaven and put an end to the first two captains of fifty and their fifties; but now let my life be of value in your eyes.

    שָׂרֵ֧י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  8. 2 Kings 4:13

    And he said to him, Now say to her, See, you have taken all this trouble for us; what is to be done for you? will you have any request made for you to the king or the captain of the army? But she said, I am living among my people.

    שַׂ֣ר sar “[the] commander of”

  9. 2 Kings 5:1

    Now Naaman, chief of the army of the king of Aram, was a man of high position with his master, and greatly respected, because by him the Lord had given salvation to Aram; but he was a leper.

    שַׂר־ sar- “[the] commander of”

  10. 2 Kings 8:21

    Then Joram went over to Zair, with all his war-carriages; ... made an attack by night on the Edomites, whose forces were all round him, ... the captains of the war-carriages; and the people went in flight to their tents.

    שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  11. 2 Kings 9:5

    And when he came, he saw the captains of the army seated together; and he said, I have something to say to you, O captain. And Jehu said, To which of us? And he said, To you, O captain.

    שָׂרֵ֤י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”הַשָּׂ֑ר (שָּׂ֑ר) Sar “commander”הַשָּֽׂר׃ (שָּֽׂר) Sar “commander”

  12. 2 Kings 10:1

    Now there were in Samaria seventy of Ahab's sons. And Jehu sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of the town, and to the responsible men, and to those who had the care of the sons of Ahab, saying,

    שָׂרֵ֤י sa.Rei “[the] officials of”

  13. 2 Kings 11:4

    Then in the seventh year, Jehoiada sent for the captains of hundreds of the Carians, and the armed men, and taking them into the house of the Lord, made an agreement with them, and made them take an oath in the house of the Lord, and let them see the kin

    שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  14. 2 Kings 11:9

    And the captains of hundreds did as Jehoiada the priest gave them orders; every one took with him his men, those who came in and those who went out on the Sabbath, and they came in to Jehoiada the priest.

    שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  15. 2 Kings 11:10

    And the priest gave to the captains of hundreds the spears and body-covers which had been King David's, and which were kept in the house of the Lord.

    לְשָׂרֵ֣י (שָׂרֵ֣י) sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  16. 2 Kings 11:14

    And looking, she saw the king in his regular place by the pillar, and the captains and the horns near him; and all the people of the land giving signs of joy and sounding the horns. Then Athaliah, violently parting her robes, gave a cry, saying, Broken f

    וְהַשָּׂרִ֤ים (שָּׂרִ֤ים) sa.Rim “commanders”

  17. 2 Kings 11:15

    Then Jehoiada the priest gave orders to those who were placed in authority over the army, saying, Take her outside the lines, and let anyone who goes after her be put to death with the sword, for he said, Let her not be put to death in the house of the L

    שָׂרֵ֥י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  18. 2 Kings 11:19

    Then he took the captains of hundreds, and the Carians, and the armed men, and all the people of the land; and they came down with the king from the house of the Lord, through the doorway of the armed men, to the king's house. And he took his place on th

    שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  19. 2 Kings 23:8

    And he made all the priests from the towns of Judah come into Jerusalem, and he made unclean the high places where the priests had been burning offerings, from Geba to Beer-sheba; and he had the high places of the evil spirits pulled down which were by t

    שַׂר־ sar- “[the] governor of”

  20. 2 Kings 24:12

    Then Jehoiachin, king of Judah, went out to the king of Babylon, with his mother and his servants and his chiefs and his unsexed servants; and in the eighth year of his rule the king of Babylon took him.

    וְשָׂרָ֣יו (שָׂרָ֣י) sa.Ra “officials”

  21. 2 Kings 24:14

    And he took away all the people of Jerusalem and all the chiefs and all the men of war, ten thousand prisoners; and all the expert workmen and the metal-workers; only the poorest sort of the people of the land were not taken away.

    הַשָּׂרִ֞ים (שָּׂרִ֞ים) sa.Rim “officials”

  22. 2 Kings 25:19

    And from the town he took the unsexed servant who was over the men of war, and five of the king's near friends who were in the town, and the scribe of the captain of the army, who was responsible for getting the people of the land together in military or

    שַׂ֣ר sar “[the] commander of”

  23. 2 Kings 25:23

    Now the captains of the armed forces, hearing that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah ruler, came with their men to Gedaliah at Mizpah; Ishmael, the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan, the son of Kareah, and Seraiah, the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite,

    שָׂרֵ֨י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  24. 2 Kings 25:26

    Then all the people, small and great, and the captains of the forces, got up and went away to Egypt, for fear of the Chaldaeans.

    וְשָׂרֵ֣י (שָׂרֵ֣י) sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”

  25. 1 Chronicles 11:6

    And David said, The first to overcome the Jebusites will be chief and captain. And Joab, the son of Zeruiah, went up first, and became chief.

    וּלְשָׂ֑ר (שָׂ֑ר) Sar “a commander”