King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H8311
Transliteration: sara
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-rah')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to extend
Meaning: to prolong, be deformed by excess of members
Word Summary
sara: to extend
Original Word: שָׂרַעTransliteration: sara
Phonetic Spelling: (saw-rah')
Part of Speech: Verb
Short Definition: to extend
Meaning: to prolong, be deformed by excess of members
Strong's Concordance
stretch out self, have any superfluous thing A primitive root; to prolong, i.e. (reflex) be deformed by excess of members -- stretch out self, (have any) superfluous thing.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H8311. sara
[שָׂרַע] verb extend (Arabic point directly at, also enter upon a path (Frä213 thinks originally divide, then stretch out, make straight), projecting roof, long-nosed (torto naso ᵑ9Leviticus 21:18); Ethiopic dispose, arrange; Sabean שרע arrangement, security HomChr 124; — but Aramaic explanation as mutilated 21:18; 22:23 PS2744, compare ᵐ5 ὠτότμητος); —
Qal Passive participle שָׂרוּעַ extended, i.e. too long (in a limb or member), of man Leviticus 21:18, beast 22:23 (see II. חרם).
Hithpa`el stretch oneself: Infinitive construct הִשְׂתָּרֵעַ Isaiah 28:20 (see מַצַּע p. 427:a).
שַׂרְעַמִּים see below שׂעף.