Original Language Studio
2 Chronicles 35:8
“And his princes gave willingly unto the people, to the priests, and to the Levites: Hilkiah and Zechariah and Jehiel, rulers of the house of God, gave unto the priests for the passover offerings two thousand and six hundred small cattle, and three hundred oxen.” (KJV)
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Lexical meaning
H8269 · Hebrew
- Definition
- a head person (of any rank or class)
- Derivation
- from H8323 (שָׂרַר);
- KJV renderings
- captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord,(-task-)master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward.
- Grammar
- וְ — conjunction
- שָׂרָ֞י — common noun, masculine, plural, construct
- ו — suffix (pronominal), 3rd person, masculine, singular
- Usage
- Occurs 421 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 12:15Genesis 21:22Genesis 21:32Genesis 26:26Genesis 37:36
Theological interpretation (AI)
The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שַׂר here.
Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.