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Judges 4:17

“Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

סִיסְרָאÇîyçᵉrâʼ · see-ser-aw'
H5516 · Hebrew

Definition: Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim
Derivation: of uncertain derivation;
KJV renderings: Sisera.
Grammar: וְ — conjunction
סִֽיסְרָא֙ — proper noun
Code HC/Np
Usage: Occurs 21 times in the Hebrew Bible.Judges 4:2 Judges 4:7 Judges 4:9 Judges 4:12 Judges 4:13

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 סִיסְרָא here.

Verse 16 Verse 18

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.