A man living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.4.2 § 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
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H5516 — סִיסְרָא
sis.ra · Sisera · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Judges 4:2 · סִֽיסְרָ֔אSo the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.Judges 4:7 · סִֽיסְרָא֙And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.’”Judges 4:9 · סִֽיסְרָ֑א“I will certainly go with you,” Deborah replied, “but the road you are taking will bring you no honor, because the LORD will be selling Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh,Judges 4:12 · לְסִֽיסְרָ֑אWhen Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,Judges 4:13 · סִֽיסְרָ֜אhe summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.Judges 4:14 · סִֽיסְרָא֙Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.Judges 4:15 · סִֽיסְרָ֨א · סִֽיסְרָ֛אAnd in front of him the LORD routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.Judges 4:16 · סִֽיסְרָא֙Then Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.Judges 4:17 · וְסִֽיסְרָא֙Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.Judges 4:18 · סִֽיסְרָא֒Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.Judges 4:22 · סִֽיסְרָא֒ · סִֽיסְרָא֙When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.Judges 5:20 · סִיסְרָֽא׃From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.Judges 5:26 · סִֽיסְרָא֙She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.Judges 5:28 · סִֽיסְרָ֖אSisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’Judges 5:30 · לְסִ֣יסְרָ֔א‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’1 Samuel 12:9 · סִֽיסְרָא֩But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.Ezra 2:53 · סִֽיסְרָ֖אthe descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,Nehemiah 7:55 · סִֽיסְרָ֖אthe descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,Psalm 83:9 · כְּֽסִֽיסְרָ֥אDo to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,