Chain
שַׁרְשְׁרָהStrong’s H8333sharsherah (shar-she-rah)
Appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Sharsherah is the Hebrew word usually translated “chains of”, “chains” and “on the chains”. It appears in 5 verses of the Old Testament.
“And two chains of pure gold at the ends; of wreathen work shalt thou make them, and fasten the wreathen chains to the ouches.”
Meaning
- Chain
How it's translated
- chains of 3
- chains 2
- and chains 1
- on the chains 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 2
- 2 Chronicles 2
- 1 Kings 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Exodus 39:15And they made upon the breastplate chains at the ends, of wreathen work of pure gold.
- 1 Kings 7:17And nets of checker work, and wreaths of chain work, for the chapiters which were upon the top of the pillars; seven for the one chapiter, and seven for the other chapiter.
- 2 Chronicles 3:5And the greater house he cieled with fir tree, which he overlaid with fine gold, and set thereon palm trees and chains.
- 2 Chronicles 3:16And he made chains, as in the oracle, and put them on the heads of the pillars; and made an hundred pomegranates, and put them on the chains.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁרְשְׁרָה sharsherah · chain
chain
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “chain” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
CHAIN, noun
- A series of links or rings connected, or fitted into one another, usually made of some kind of metal, as a chain of gold, or of iron; but the word is not restricted to any particular kind of material.
- That which binds; a real chain; that which restrains, confines, or fetters; a bond.“If God spared not the angels that sinned, but delivered them into chains of darkness” 2 Peter 2:4
- Bondage; affliction.“He hath made my chain heavy” Lamentations 3:7
- Bondage; slavery.
All definitions and other forms of “chain”
- Ornament. Proverbs 1:9
- A series of things linked together; a series of things connected or following in succession; as a chain of causes, of ideas, or events; a chain of being.
- A range, or line of things connected, as a chain of mountains.
- A series of links, forming an instrument to measure land.
- A string of twisted wire, or something similar, to hang a watch on, and for other purposes.
- In France, a measure of wood for fuel, and various commodities, of various length.
- In ship-building, chains are strong links or plates of iron, bolted at the lower end to the ships side, used to contain the blocks called dead eyes, by which the shrouds of the mast are extended.
- The warp in weaving, as in French.
CHAIN, verb transitive
- To fasten, bind or connect with a chain; to fasten or bind with any thing in the manner of a chain
- To enslave; to keep in slavery.
- To guard with a chain as a harbor or passage.
- To unite; to form chain-work.
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.