Princess
שָׂרָהStrong’s H8282sarah (sa-rah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sarah is the Hebrew word usually translated “noble ladies her”, “noble ladies” and “noble ladies of”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“Her wise ladies answered her, yea, she returned answer to herself,”
Meaning
- Princess, noblewoman, noble lady
How it's translated
- noble ladies her 1
- noble ladies 1
- noble ladies of 1
- and princesses their 1
- a princess 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Judges 1
- 1 Kings 1
- Esther 1
- Isaiah 1
- Lamentations 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 1 Kings 11:3And he had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines: and his wives turned away his heart.
- Esther 1:18Likewise shall the ladies of Persia and Media say this day unto all the king’s princes, which have heard of the deed of the queen. Thus shall there arise too much contempt and wrath.
- Isaiah 49:23And kings shall be thy nursing fathers, and their queens thy nursing mothers: they shall bow down to thee with their face toward the earth, and lick up the dust of thy feet; and thou shalt know that I am the LORD: for they shall not be ashamed that wait for me.
- Lamentations 1:1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂרָה sarah · princess
princess, noblewoman, noble lady
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “princess” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
PRIN'CESS, noun
A female sovereign, as an empress or queen.
- A sovereign lady of rank next to that of a queen.
- The daughter of a king.
- The consort of a prince; as the princess of Wales.
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.