Lexical 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. |
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