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H8269שַׂרsar
rulerPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
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It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw Jehoshaphat, that they said, Surely it is the king of Israel; and they turned aside to fight against him: and Jehoshaphat cried out.
שָׂרֵ֨י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
It happened, when the captains of the chariots saw that it was not the king of Israel, that they turned back from pursuing him.
שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
Then [supplied: the king] sent to him a captain of fifty with his fifty. He went up to him: and, behold, he was sitting on the top of the hill. He spoke to him, man of God, the king has said, Come down.
שַׂר־ sar- “a commander of”
Elijah answered to the captain of fifty, If I be a man of God, let fire come down from the sky, and consume you and your fifty. Fire came down from the sky, and consumed him and his fifty.
שַׂ֣ר sar “[the] commander of”
Again he sent to him another captain of fifty and his fifty. He answered him, man of God, thus has the king said, Come down quickly.
שַׂר־ sar- “a commander of”
Again he sent the captain of a third fifty with his fifty. The third captain of fifty went up, and came and fell on his knees before Elijah, and begged him, and said to him, man of God, please let my life, and the life of these fifty your servants, be precious in your sight.
שַׂר־ sar- “a commander of”שַׂר־ sar- “[the] commander of”
Behold, fire came down from the sky, and consumed the two former captains of fifty with their fifties; but now let my life be precious in your sight.
שָׂרֵ֧י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
He said to him, Say now to her, Behold, you have been careful for us with all this care; what is to be done for you? would you be spoken for to the king, or to the captain of the host? She answered, I dwell among my own people.
שַׂ֣ר sar “[the] commander of”
Now Naaman, captain of the host of the king of Syria, was a great man with his master, and honorable, because by him Yahweh had given victory to Syria: he was also a mighty man of valor, [supplied: but he was] a leper.
שַׂר־ sar- “[the] commander of”
Then Joram passed over to Zair, and all his chariots with him: and he rose up by night, and struck the Edomites who surrounded him, and the captains of the chariots; and the people fled to their tents.
שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
When he came, behold, the captains of the host were sitting; and he said, I have an errand to you, captain. Jehu said, To which of us all? He said, To you, O captain.
שָׂרֵ֤י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”הַשָּׂ֑ר (שָּׂ֑ר) Sar “commander”הַשָּֽׂר׃ (שָּֽׂר) Sar “commander”
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up [supplied: the sons of] Ahab, saying,
שָׂרֵ֤י sa.Rei “[the] officials of”
In the seventh year Jehoiada sent and fetched the captains over hundreds of the Carites and of the guard, and brought them to him into the house of Yahweh; and he made a covenant with them, and took an oath of them in the house of Yahweh, and shown them the king's son.
שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
The captains over hundreds did according to all that Jehoiada the priest commanded; and they took every man his men, those who were to come in on the Sabbath, with those who were to go out on the Sabbath, and came to Jehoiada the priest.
שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
The priest delivered to the captains over hundreds the spears and shields that had been king David's, which were in the house of Yahweh.
לְשָׂרֵ֣י (שָׂרֵ֣י) sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
and she looked, and, behold, the king stood by the pillar, as the manner was, and the captains and the trumpets by the king; and all the people of the land rejoiced, and blew trumpets. Then Athaliah tore her clothes, and cried, Treason! treason!
וְהַשָּׂרִ֤ים (שָּׂרִ֤ים) sa.Rim “commanders”
Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword. For the priest said, Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh.
שָׂרֵ֥י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
He took the captains over hundreds, and the Carites, and the guard, and all the people of the land; and they brought down the king from the house of Yahweh, and came by the way of the gate of the guard to the king's house. He sat on the throne of the kings.
שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
He brought all the priests out of the cities of Judah, and defiled the high places where the priests had burned incense, from Geba to Beersheba; and he broke down the high places of the gates that were at the entrance of the gate of Joshua the governor of the city, which were on a man's left hand at the gate of the city.
שַׂר־ sar- “[the] governor of”
and Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.
וְשָׂרָ֣יו (שָׂרָ֣י) sa.Ra “officials”
He carried away all Jerusalem, and all the princes, and all the mighty men of valor, even ten thousand captives, and all the craftsmen and the smiths; none remained, save the poorest sort of the people of the land.
הַשָּׂרִ֞ים (שָּׂרִ֞ים) sa.Rim “officials”
and out of the city he took an officer who was set over the men of war; and five men of those who saw the king's face, who were found in the city; and the scribe, the captain of the host, who mustered the people of the land; and sixty men of the people of the land, who were found in the city.
שַׂ֣ר sar “[the] commander of”
Now when all the captains of the forces, they and their men, heard that the king of Babylon had made Gedaliah governor, they came to Gedaliah to Mizpah, even Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and Seraiah the son of Tanhumeth the Netophathite, and Jaazaniah the son of the Maacathite, they and their men.
שָׂרֵ֨י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
All the people, both small and great, and the captains of the forces, arose, and came to Egypt; for they were afraid of the Chaldeans.
וְשָׂרֵ֣י (שָׂרֵ֣י) sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
David said, Whoever strikes the Jebusites first shall be chief and captain. Joab the son of Zeruiah went up first, and was made chief.
וּלְשָׂ֑ר (שָׂ֑ר) Sar “a commander”