Cicera means “Sisera” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Same number, other testament: Strong's G5516 — chxstigma in the Greek Bible.
Strong's H5516 סִיסְרָא (Ciycra';) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. Ciycra'; (see-ser-aw') n/p. 1. Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim [of uncertain derivation] It has 19 linked Bible usages across 5 books. Visible English usage signals include sisera. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
Ciycra'; (see-ser-aw') n/p. 1. Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim [of uncertain derivation] KJV: Sisera.
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Sisera
Usage: A man living before Israel's Monarchy, first mentioned at Jdg.4.2 § Sisera = "battle array" 1) the conquering general under king Jabin of Hazor and slain by Jael 2) ancestor of a family of temple slaves who returned from exile with Zerubbabel
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render Ciycra';, taken from the interlinear word alignment (the same word underlined in the excerpts below). Where a rendering is used more than once, the count is shown.
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19 indexed usages in Old Testament.
And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
First 19 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5516.
And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin's army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.
And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the LORD shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.
And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.
And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.
And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the LORD hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the LORD gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.
And the LORD discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.
But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.
Howbeit Sisera fled away on his feet to the tent of Jael the wife of Heber the Kenite: for there was peace between Jabin the king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.
And Jael went out to meet Sisera, and said unto him, Turn in, my lord, turn in to me; fear not. And when he had turned in unto her into the tent, she covered him with a mantle.
And, behold, as Barak pursued Sisera, Jael came out to meet him, and said unto him, Come, and I will shew thee the man whom thou seekest. And when he came into her tent, behold, Sisera lay dead, and the nail was in his temples.
They fought from heaven; the stars in their courses fought against Sisera.
She put her hand to the nail, and her right hand to the workmen's hammer; and with the hammer she smote Sisera, she smote off his head, when she had pierced and stricken through his temples.
The mother of Sisera looked out at a window, and cried through the lattice, Why is his chariot so long in coming? why tarry the wheels of his chariots?
Have they not sped? have they not divided the prey; to every man a damsel or two; to Sisera a prey of divers colours, a prey of divers colours of needlework, of divers colours of needlework on both sides, meet for the necks of them that take the spoil?
And when they forgat the LORD their God, he sold them into the hand of Sisera, captain of the host of Hazor, and into the hand of the Philistines, and into the hand of the king of Moab, and they fought against them.
The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Thamah,
The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children of Tamah,
Do unto them as unto the Midianites; as to Sisera, as to Jabin, at the brook of Kison:
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Cicera (Strong's H5516) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "Sisera". Ciycra'; (see-ser-aw') n/p. 1. Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim [of uncertain derivation]
This page currently indexes 19 linked usages for Strong's H5516 across 5 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5516 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as sisera. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.