Brown-Driver-Briggs
שְׂרָיָה(וּׅ proper name, masculine (
׳י persisteth Dr
Hast. DB. ii. 530 JACOB); — usually
Σαραια(
ς); —
שְׂרָיָה:
1 secretary of David 2 Samuel 8:17, but ᵐ5B Ασα, "" שיא 2 Samuel 20:25 Kt (שְׁוָא Qr), שַׁוְשָׁא 1 Chronicles 18:16 (in both Ἰησοῦς, ᵐ5L Σουσα), שִׁישָׁא 1 Kings 4:3 (Σαβα, A Σεισα, ᵐ5L Σαφατ); originally in all probably ששא We Dr Klo (Sausa), HPS (שושא), Now (Šoša), Bu.
2 chief priest 2 Kings 25:18 = Jeremiah 52:24.
3 a captain 2 Kings 25:23; Jeremiah 40:8; Jeremiah 51:59 (twice in verse); Jeremiah 51:61.
4. a. son of Kenaz 1 Chronicles 4:13,14.
b. name in Simeon 1 Chronicles 4:35.
c. Levite name 1 Chronicles 5:40 (twice in verse).
5. a. companion of Zerubbabel Ezra 2:2.
b. father of Ezra Ezra 7:1.
c. one sealed Nehemiah 10:3.
d. priest Nehemiah 11:11; Nehemiah 12:1,12.
6 שְׂרָיָהוּ, officer of king Jehoiakim, Jeremiah 36:26, τῷ Σαρεα.
II. שׂרה (√ of following; = rule ? compare שׂרר).
