Revolt
סָרָהStrong’s H5627sarah (sa-rah)
Appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “rebellion” and “ceasing”. It appears in 8 verses of the Old Testament.
“And that prophet, or that dreamer of dreams, shall be put to death; because he hath spoken to turn you away from the LORD your God, which brought you out of the land of Egypt, and redeemed you out of the house of bondage, to thrust thee out of the way which the LORD thy God commanded thee to walk in. So shalt thou put the evil away from the midst of thee.”
Meaning
- Apostasy, defection, turning aside, withdrawaldefection (of moral or legal offenses) · apostasy · withdrawal (negated)
How it's translated
- rebellion 6
- ceasing 1
- and rebellion 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Deuteronomy 2
- Jeremiah 2
3 books in all.
Related words
Explore in Scripture
- Deuteronomy 19:16If a false witness rise up against any man to testify against him that which is wrong;
- Isaiah 1:5Why should ye be stricken any more? ye will revolt more and more: the whole head is sick, and the whole heart faint.
- Isaiah 14:6He who smote the people in wrath with a continual stroke, he that ruled the nations in anger, is persecuted, and none hindereth.
- Isaiah 31:6Turn ye unto him from whom the children of Israel have deeply revolted.
- Isaiah 59:13In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.
- Jeremiah 28:16Therefore thus saith the LORD; Behold, I will cast thee from off the face of the earth: this year thou shalt die, because thou hast taught rebellion against the LORD.
Hebrew dictionary
סָרָה sarah · revolt
1) apostasy, defection, turning aside, withdrawal 1a) defection (of moral or legal offenses) 1b) apostasy 1c) withdrawal (negated)
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “revolt” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
REVOLT', verb transitive
- To turn; to put to flight; to overturn.
- To shock; to do violence to; to cause to shrink or turn away with abhorrence; as, to revolt the mind or the feelings.
All definitions and other forms of “revolt”
REVOLT', noun
- Desertion; change of sides; more correctly, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to one's prince or government; as the revolt of a province of the Roman empire.
- Gross departure from duty.
- In Scripture, a rejection of divine government; departure from God; disobedience. Isaiah 59:13
- A revolter. [Not in use.]
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.
Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.