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H8269שַׂרsar
rulerPart of speech: Hebrew Noun (Masculine)
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However, in the business of the representatives sent by the rulers of Babylon to get news of the wonder which had taken place in the land, God gave up guiding him, testing him to see what was in his heart.
שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] officials of”
So the Lord sent against them the captains of the army of Assyria, who made Manasseh a prisoner and took him away in chains to Babylon.
שָׂרֵ֤י sa.Rei “[the] commanders of”
After this he made an outer wall for the town of David, on the west side of Gihon in the valley, as far as the way into the town by the fish doorway; and he put a very high wall round the Ophel; and he put captains of the army in all the walled towns of
שָֽׂרֵי־ sa.rei- “commanders of”
Now in the eighteenth year of his rule, when the land and the house had been made clean, he sent Shaphan, the son of Azaliah, and Maaseiah, the ruler of the town, and Joah, the son of Joahaz, the recorder, to make good what was damaged in the house of th
שַׂר־ sar- “[the] official of”
And his captains freely gave an offering to the people, the priests, and the Levites. Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, the rulers of the house of God, gave to the priests for the Passover offerings two thousand, six hundred small cattle and three hundre
וְשָׂרָ֞יו (שָׂרָ֞י) sa.Ra “officials”
And Conaniah and Shemaiah and Nethanel, his brothers, and Hashabiah and Jeiel and Jozabad, the chiefs of the Levites, gave to the Levites for the Passover offerings five thousand small cattle and five hundred oxen.
שָׂרֵ֣י sa.Rei “[the] leaders of”
And more than this, all the great men of Judah and the priests and the people made their sin great, turning to all the disgusting ways of the nations; and they made unclean the house of the Lord which he had made holy in Jerusalem.
שָׂרֵ֨י sa.Rei “[the] leaders of”
And all the vessels of the house of God, great and small, and the stored wealth of the Lord's house and the wealth of the king and his chiefs, he took away to Babylon.
וְשָׂרָ֑יו (שָׂרָ֑י) sa.Ra “officials”
And has given mercy to me before the king and his government and before all the king's great captains. And I was made strong by the hand of the Lord my God which was on me, and I got together out of Israel chief men to go up with me.
שָׂרֵ֥י sa.Rei “[the] officials of”
And of the Nethinim, to whom David and the captains had given the work of helping the Levites, two hundred and twenty Nethinim, all of them specially named.
וְהַשָּׂרִים֙ (שָּׂרִים֙) sa.Rim “officials”
So I put on one side twelve of the chiefs of the priests, Sherebiah, Hashabiah, and ten of their brothers with them,
מִשָּׂרֵ֥י (שָּׂרֵ֥י) sa.Rei “[the] leaders of”
And gave to them by weight the silver and the gold and the vessels, all the offering for the house of our God which the king and his wise men and his captains and all Israel there present had given:
וְשָׂרָ֔יו (שָׂרָ֔י) sa.Ra “officials”
Take care of them and keep them, till you put them on the scales before the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and the chiefs of the families of Israel, in Jerusalem, in the rooms of the house of the Lord.
שָׂרֵ֨י sa.Rei “[the] leaders of”וְשָׂרֵֽי־ (שָׂרֵֽי) sa.rei- “[the] leaders of”
Now after these things were done, the captains came to me and said, The people of Israel and the priests and Levites have not kept themselves separate from the people of the lands, but have taken part in the disgusting ways of the Canaanites, the Hittite
הַשָּׂרִים֙ (שָּׂרִים֙) sa.Rim “leaders”
For they have taken their daughters for themselves and for their sons, so that the holy seed has been mixed with the peoples of the lands; and in fact the captains and rulers have been the first to do this evil.
הַשָּׂרִ֣ים (שָּׂרִ֣ים) sa.Rim “leaders”
Then Ezra got up, and made the chiefs of the priests and the Levites and all Israel take an oath that they would do this. So they took an oath.
שָׂרֵי֩ sa.Rei “[the] leaders of”
And that if anyone did not come before three days were past, as ordered by the rulers and the responsible men, all his goods would be put under the curse, and he himself would be cut off from the meeting of the people who had come back.
הַשָּׂרִים֙ (שָּׂרִים֙) sa.Rim “leaders”
So now let our rulers be representatives for all the people, and let all those in our towns who are married to strange women come at fixed times, and with them the responsible men and the judges of every town, till the burning wrath of our God is turned
שָׂ֠רֵינוּ (שָׂ֠רֵי) Sa.rei. “leaders”
Then I came to the rulers of the lands across the river and gave them the king's letters. Now the king had sent with me captains of the army and horsemen.
שָׂ֥רֵי Sa.rei “commanders of”
Near them was working Rephaiah, the son of Hur, the ruler of half Jerusalem.
שַׂ֕ר sar “[the] official of”
Near them was Shallum, the son of Hallohesh, the ruler of half Jerusalem, with his daughters.
שַׂ֕ר sar “[the] official of”
And Malchijah, the son of Rechab, the ruler of the division of Beth-haccherem, made good the doorway of the waste, building it up and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods.
שַׂ֖ר sar “[the] official of”
And Shallun, the son of Col-hozeh, the ruler of the division of Mizpah, made good the doorway of the fountain, building it up and covering it and putting up its doors, with their locks and rods, with the wall of the pool of Shelah by the king's garden, a
שַׂ֣ר sar “[the] official of”
By his side was working Nehemiah, the son of Azbuk, ruler of half the division of Beth-zur, as far as the place opposite the last resting-places of David's family, and the pool which was made and the house of the men of war.
שַׂ֕ר sar “[the] official of”
Then came the Levites, Rehum, the son of Bani. By his side was working Hashabiah, ruler of half the division of Keilah, for his division.
שַׂר־ sar- “[the] official of”