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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sis.ra · Sisera · Hebrew/Aramaic
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Judges 4:2 · סִֽיסְרָ֔אYahweh sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose army was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth of the Gentiles.Judges 4:7 · סִֽיסְרָא֙I will draw to you, to the river Kishon, Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into your hand.’”Judges 4:9 · סִֽיסְרָ֑אShe said, “I will surely go with you: nevertheless, the journey that you take shall not be for your honor; for Yahweh will sell Sisera into the hand of a woman.” Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.Judges 4:12 · לְסִֽיסְרָ֑אThey told Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to Mount Tabor.Judges 4:13 · סִֽיסְרָ֜אSisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people who were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles, to the river Kishon.Judges 4:14 · סִֽיסְרָא֙Deborah said to Barak, “Go; for this is the day in which Yahweh has delivered Sisera into your hand. Hasn’t Yahweh gone out before you?” So Barak went down from Mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.Judges 4:15 · סִֽיסְרָ֨א · סִֽיסְרָ֛אYahweh confused Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his army, with the edge of the sword before Barak; and Sisera alighted from his chariot, and fled away on his feet.Judges 4:16 · סִֽיסְרָא֙But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the army, to Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the army of Sisera fell by the edge of the sword; there was not a man left.Judges 4:17 · וְסִֽיסְרָא֙However 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.Judges 4:18 · סִֽיסְרָא֒Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said to him, “Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; don’t be afraid.” He came in to her into the tent, and she covered him with a rug.Judges 4:22 · סִֽיסְרָא֒ · סִֽיסְרָא֙Behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man whom you seek.” He came to her; and behold, Sisera lay dead, and the tent peg was in his temples.Judges 5:20 · סִיסְרָֽא׃From the sky the stars fought. From their courses, they fought against Sisera.Judges 5:26 · סִֽיסְרָא֙She put her hand to the tent peg, and her right hand to the workmen’s hammer. With the hammer she struck Sisera. She struck through his head. Yes, she pierced and struck through his temples.Judges 5:28 · סִֽיסְרָ֖א“Through the window she looked out, and cried: Sisera’s mother looked through the lattice. ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? Why do the wheels of his chariots wait?’Judges 5:30 · לְסִ֣יסְרָ֔א‘Have they not found, have they not divided the spoil? A lady, two ladies to every man; to Sisera a spoil of dyed garments, a spoil of dyed garments embroidered, of dyed garments embroidered on both sides, on the necks of the spoil?’1 Samuel 12:9 · סִֽיסְרָא֩“But they forgot Yahweh their God; and he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the army of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab; and they fought against them.Ezra 2:53 · סִֽיסְרָ֖אthe children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,Nehemiah 7:55 · סִֽיסְרָ֖אthe children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Temah,Psalm 83:9 · כְּֽסִֽיסְרָ֥אDo to them as you did to Midian, as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the river Kishon;