סָרַר
sa.rar
to rebel
Lexicon Entry
Lexicon data from STEPBible TIPNR, Tyndale House, Cambridge. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.
What Original Readers Understood
ExploredBased on the lexicon data, the Hebrew word "סָרַר" (H5637) means "to rebel". This verb conveys the idea of actively resisting or disobeying an authority, whether it be a person, institution, or divine mandate. In terms of range of usage, "סָרַר" appears 17 times in the Hebrew Bible, suggesting that it is an important concept in Hebrew thought. Its occurrences indicate that rebellion can manifest in various forms, including but not limited to, political insurrection, moral transgression, or spiritual dissent. The significance of this word lies in its connection to themes of law, justice, and social order. In Hebrew culture, rebellion against established authority was often seen as a threat to the social fabric and the well-being of community. This understanding emphasizes the importance of submission to legitimate authority and respect for the established order, with rebellion viewed as a serious challenge to these values.
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Occurrences in Scripture
17 total occurrences across the text
and testified against them, that you might bring them again to your law. Yet they were arrogant, and didn’t listen to your commandments, but sinned against your ordinances (which if a man does, he shall live in them), turned their backs, stiffened their neck, and would not hear.
Psalms 68:18You have ascended on high. You have led away captives. You have received gifts among people, yes, among the rebellious also, that Yah God might dwell there.
Psalms 66:7He rules by his might forever. His eyes watch the nations. Don’t let the rebellious rise up against him.
Psalms 68:6God sets the lonely in families. He brings out the prisoners with singing, but the rebellious dwell in a sun-scorched land.
Psalms 78:8and might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation, a generation that didn’t make their hearts loyal, whose spirit was not steadfast with God.
Proverbs 7:11She is loud and defiant. Her feet don’t stay in her house.
Isaiah 1:23Your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves. Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards. They don’t defend the fatherless, neither does the cause of the widow come to them.
Isaiah 30:1“Woe to the rebellious children”, says Yahweh, “who take counsel, but not from me; and who make an alliance, but not with my Spirit, that they may add sin to sin,
Isaiah 65:2I have spread out my hands all day to a rebellious people, who walk in a way that is not good, after their own thoughts;
Jeremiah 5:23“But this people has a revolting and a rebellious heart. They have revolted and gone.
Jeremiah 6:28They are all grievous rebels, going around to slander. They are bronze and iron. All of them deal corruptly.
Hosea 4:16For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
Hosea 4:16For Israel has behaved extremely stubbornly, like a stubborn heifer. Then how will Yahweh feed them like a lamb in a meadow.
Hosea 9:15“All their wickedness is in Gilgal; for there I hated them. Because of the wickedness of their deeds I will drive them out of my house! I will love them no more. All their princes are rebels.
Zechariah 7:11But they refused to listen, and turned their backs, and stopped their ears, that they might not hear.
Deuteronomy 21:18If a man has a stubborn and rebellious son who will not obey the voice of his father or the voice of his mother, and though they chasten him, will not listen to them,
Deuteronomy 21:20They shall tell the elders of his city, “This our son is stubborn and rebellious. He will not obey our voice. He is a glutton and a drunkard.”