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Friday, October 31st, 2025
the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30

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Strong's #5516 - סִיסְרָא

Transliteration

Çîyçᵉrâʼ

Phonetics

see-ser-aw'

Origin

of uncertain derivation

Parts of Speech

proper masculine noun

TWOT

None

Definition

Brown-Driver-Briggs
Strong

Brown-Driver-Briggs' Definition

Sisera = "battle array"
1. the conquering general under king Jabin of Hazor and slain by Jael
2. ancestor of a family of temple slaves who returned from exile with Zerubbabel

Frequency Lists

Book
Word

Verse Results

ASV (20)

Judges 16

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 1

BSB (21)

Judges 17

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 1

CSB (18)

Judges 17

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 1

ESV (21)

Judges 17

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 1

KJV (21)

Judges 17

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 1

LEB (21)

Judges 17

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 1

LSB (21)

Judges 17

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 1

N95 (20)

Judges 17

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

NAS (21)

Judges 17

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 1

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (21)

Judges 17

1 Samuel 1

Ezra 1

Nehemiah 1

Psalms 1

ASV (20)

against sisera 1

and sisera 2

as to sisera 1

but sisera 1

of sisera 4

sisera 8

to sisera 1

unto her; and, behold, sisera 1

was sisera 1

BSB (21)

as to sisera 1

for sisera 1

he 1

meanwhile, sisera 1

of sisera 4

sisera 10

sisera''s 1

to sisera 1

was sisera 1

CSB (18)

sisera 16

sisera's 1

with sisera 1

ESV (21)

sisera 21

KJV (21)

sisera 21

LEB (21)

and sisera 1

as with sisera 1

for sisera 1

of sisera 1

s 1

sisera 13

threw sisera 1

to sisera 1

was sisera 1

LSB (21)

sisera 21

N95 (20)

sisera 20

NAS (21)

sisera 21

NLT (0)

The World English Bible
did not use
this Strong's Number

WEB (21)

against sisera 1

and sisera 1

as to sisera 1

however sisera 1

of sisera 4

sisera 9

to sisera 1

was sisera 1

Brown-Driver-Briggs Expanded Definition

סִיסְרָא₂₁ proper name, masculine (GFM^{Judges 4:2; PAOS xix (1898), 160} compare Hittite names in #NAME?); —

1 general of Jabin, king of Hazor Judges 4:2 12t. Judges 4; apparently himself king Judges 5:20,26,28,30; compare 1 Samuel 12:9; Psalm 83:10; — on ׳ס see GFM^{Ju, 107 ff.; PAOS 1.c.}; ᵐ5 Σ(ε)ισαρα.

2בְּנֵיסִֿיסְרָא returned exiles, Ezra 2:53 = Nehemiah 7:55; ᵐ5 Σεισαραθ, Σισαρα, etc.

Gesenius' Hebrew and Chaldee Definition

סִיסְרָא (“a field of battle,” compare Syriac ܣܝܺܣܪܳܬܳܐ, perhaps, for סרסרתא from the root סוּר = سار to leap onward, to make an onset), [Sisera], pr.n. m.

(1) of a general of Jabin, king of Canaan, Judges 4:2, seq.; Psalms 83:10.

(2) Ezra 2:53; Nehemiah 7:55.

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List of Word Forms

וְסִֽיסְרָא֙ וסיסרא כְּֽסִֽיסְרָ֥א כסיסרא לְסִ֣יסְרָ֔א לְסִֽיסְרָ֑א לסיסרא סִֽיסְרָ֑א סִֽיסְרָ֔א סִֽיסְרָ֖א סִֽיסְרָ֛א סִֽיסְרָ֜א סִֽיסְרָ֨א סִֽיסְרָא֒ סִֽיסְרָא֙ סִֽיסְרָא֩ סִיסְרָֽא׃ סיסרא סיסרא׃ kə·sî·sə·rā kesiseRa kəsîsərā lə·sî·sə·rā lesiseRa ləsîsərā sî·sə·rā siseRa sîsərā sisRa vesiseRa wə·sî·sə·rā wəsîsərā