To overrun
סָרַחStrong’s H5628sarach (sa-rach)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sarach is the Hebrew word usually translated “it will overhang”, “projecting” and “has it been corrupted”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the remnant that remaineth of the curtains of the tent, the half curtain that remaineth, shall hang over the backside of the tabernacle.”
Meaning
- To go free, be unrestrained, be overrun, exceed, overhang, grow luxuriously(Qal) · (Niphal) to be let loose or dismissed or gone
How it's translated
- it will overhang 1
- projecting 1
- has it been corrupted 1
- spreading 1
- overhung of 1
- and sprawled out 1
- sprawled out 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- Ezekiel 2
- Amos 2
- Jeremiah 1
4 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 26:13And a cubit on the one side, and a cubit on the other side of that which remaineth in the length of the curtains of the tent, it shall hang over the sides of the tabernacle on this side and on that side, to cover it.
- Jeremiah 49:7Concerning Edom, thus saith the LORD of hosts; Is wisdom no more in Teman? is counsel perished from the prudent? is their wisdom vanished?
- Ezekiel 17:6And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whose branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: so it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and shot forth sprigs.
- Ezekiel 23:15Girded with girdles upon their loins, exceeding in dyed attire upon their heads, all of them princes to look to, after the manner of the Babylonians of Chaldea, the land of their nativity:
- Amos 6:4That lie upon beds of ivory, and stretch themselves upon their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall;
- Amos 6:7Therefore now shall they go captive with the first that go captive, and the banquet of them that stretched themselves shall be removed.
Hebrew dictionary
סָרַח sarach · to overrun
1) to go free, be unrestrained, be overrun, exceed, overhang, grow luxuriously 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to go free, be unrestrained, sprawl 1a1a) overrunning, spreading (participle) 1a2) to overhang 1b) (Niphal) to be let loose or dismissed or gone
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “overrun” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
OVERRUN', verb intransitive
To overflow; to run over.
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.