STRONGS NUMBER H5516


Word Summary
Sisera: a general of the king of Hazor, also the father of some returning exiles
Original Word: סִיסְרָא
Transliteration: Sisera
Phonetic Spelling: (see-ser-aw')
Part of Speech: Proper Name Masculine
Short Definition: a general of the king of Hazor, also the father of some returning exiles
Meaning: Sisera -- a general of the king of Hazor, also the father of some returning exiles
Strong's Concordance
Sisera

Of uncertain derivation; Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim -- Sisera.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

H5516. Sisera

סִיסְרָא21 proper name, masculine (GFMJudges 4:2; PAOS xix (1898), 160 compare Hittite names in +?); —

1 general of Jabin, king of Hazor Judges 4:2 12t. Judges 4; apparently himself king 5:20, 26, 28, 30; compare 1 Samuel 12:9; Psalm 83:10; — on ׳ס‎ see GFMJu, 107 ff.; PAOS 1.c.; ᵐ5Σ(ε)ισαρα.

2 בְּנֵיסִֿיסְרָא‎ returned exiles, Ezra 2:53 = Nehemiah 7:55; ᵐ5Σεισαραθ, Σισαρα, etc.