Hebrew Strong's Lexicon

H8269

Language: 🇧🇶 Papiamentu 🇬🇧 English

Lemma: שָׂר

Transliteration: sar

Definition: from שָׂרַר; a head person (of any rank or class)

KJV Definition: captain (that had rule), chief (captain), general, governor, keeper, lord, ((-task-))master, prince(-ipal), ruler, steward

Verse usage

  • 1 Samuel 22:2 NASB
    Everyone who was in distress, and everyone who was in debt, and everyone who was discontented gathered to him; and he became captain over them. Now there were about four hundred men with him.
  • 1 Samuel 22:7 NASB
    Saul said to his servants who stood around him, "Hear now, O Benjamites! Will the son of Jesse also give to all of you fields and vineyards? Will he make you all commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds?
  • 1 Samuel 26:5 NASB
    David then arose and came to the place where Saul had camped. And David saw the place where Saul lay, and Abner the son of Ner, the commander of his army; and Saul was lying in the circle of the camp, and the people were camped around him.
  • 1 Samuel 29:3 NASB
    Then the commanders of the Philistines said, "What [are] these Hebrews [doing here]?" And Achish said to the commanders of the Philistines, "Is this not David, the servant of Saul the king of Israel, who has been with me these days, or [rather] these years, and I have found no fault in him from the day he deserted [to me] to this day?"
  • 1 Samuel 29:4 NASB
    But the commanders of the Philistines were angry with him, and the commanders of the Philistines said to him, "Make the man go back, that he may return to his place where you have assigned him, and do not let him go down to battle with us, or in the battle he may become an adversary to us. For with what could this [man] make himself acceptable to his lord? [Would it] not [be] with the heads of these men?
  • 1 Samuel 29:9 NASB
    But Achish replied to David, "I know that you are pleasing in my sight, like an angel of God; nevertheless the commanders of the Philistines have said, 'He must not go up with us to the battle.'
  • 2 Samuel 2:8 NASB
    But Abner the son of Ner, commander of Saul's army, had taken Ish-bosheth the son of Saul and brought him over to Mahanaim.
  • 2 Samuel 3:38 NASB
    Then the king said to his servants, "Do you not know that a prince and a great man has fallen this day in Israel?
  • 2 Samuel 4:2 NASB
    Saul's son [had] two men who were commanders of bands: the name of the one was Baanah and the name of the other Rechab, sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, of the sons of Benjamin (for Beeroth is also considered [part] of Benjamin,
  • 2 Samuel 10:3 NASB
    the princes of the Ammonites said to Hanun their lord, "Do you think that David is honoring your father because he has sent consolers to you? Has David not sent his servants to you in order to search the city, to spy it out and overthrow it?"
  • 2 Samuel 10:16 NASB
    And Hadadezer sent and brought out the Arameans who were beyond the River, and they came to Helam; and Shobach the commander of the army of Hadadezer led them.
  • 2 Samuel 10:18 NASB
    But the Arameans fled before Israel, and David killed 700 charioteers of the Arameans and 40,000 horsemen and struck down Shobach the commander of their army, and he died there.
  • 2 Samuel 18:1 NASB
    Then David numbered the people who were with him and set over them commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds.
  • 2 Samuel 18:5 NASB
    The king charged Joab and Abishai and Ittai, saying, "[Deal] gently for my sake with the young man Absalom." And all the people heard when the king charged all the commanders concerning Absalom.
  • 2 Samuel 19:6 NASB
    by loving those who hate you, and by hating those who love you. For you have shown today that princes and servants are nothing to you; for I know this day that if Absalom were alive and all of us were dead today, then you would be pleased.
  • 2 Samuel 19:13 NASB
    "Say to Amasa, 'Are you not my bone and my flesh? May God do so to me, and more also, if you will not be commander of the army before me continually in place of Joab.'"
  • 2 Samuel 23:19 NASB
    He was most honored of the thirty, therefore he became their commander; however, he did not attain to the three.
  • 2 Samuel 24:2 NASB
    The king said to Joab the commander of the army who was with him, "Go about now through all the tribes of Israel, from Dan to Beersheba, and register the people, that I may know the number of the people."
  • 2 Samuel 24:4 NASB
    Nevertheless, the king's word prevailed against Joab and against the commanders of the army. So Joab and the commanders of the army went out from the presence of the king to register the people of Israel.
  • 1 Reinan 1:19 NASB
    "He has sacrificed oxen and fatlings and sheep in abundance, and has invited all the sons of the king and Abiathar the priest and Joab the commander of the army, but he has not invited Solomon your servant.