Extended Strong's Hebrew Lexicon (Brown-Driver-Briggs based)
to rebel
Usage: 1) to rebel, be stubborn, be rebellious, be refractory 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be stubborn 1a2) stubborn, rebel (subst)
Carar means “turn away” — full meaning, definition, and every linked Bible usage across the indexed canon.
Strong's H5637 סָרַר (carar) is a Hebrew Strong's word-study entry. carar (saw-rar') v. 1. to turn away, i.e. (morally) be refractory [a primitive root] It has 16 linked Bible usages across 8 books. Visible English usage signals include rebellious, revolters, backsliding, and away. Indexed coverage on this page includes Old Testament.
carar (saw-rar') v. 1. to turn away, i.e. (morally) be refractory [a primitive root] KJV: X away, backsliding, rebellious, revolter(-ing), slide back, stubborn, withdrew.
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to rebel
Usage: 1) to rebel, be stubborn, be rebellious, be refractory 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to be stubborn 1a2) stubborn, rebel (subst)
The English word each shown verse actually uses to render carar, 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.
Indexed coverage includes Old Testament. Each section below keeps corpus counts and sample passages visible so readers can compare the word across contexts instead of reading one flat concordance list.
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16 indexed usages in Old Testament.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
And they shall say unto 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.
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
First 16 linked usage excerpts for Strong's H5637.
If a man have a stubborn and rebellious son, which will not obey the voice of his father, or the voice of his mother, and that, when they have chastened him, will not hearken unto them:
And they shall say unto 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.
And testifiedst against them, that thou mightest bring them again unto thy law: yet they dealt proudly, and hearkened not unto thy commandments, but sinned against thy judgments, (which if a man do, he shall live in them;) and withdrew the shoulder, and hardened their neck, and would not hear.
He ruleth by his power for ever; his eyes behold the nations: let not the rebellious exalt themselves. Selah.
God setteth the solitary in families: he bringeth out those which are bound with chains: but the rebellious dwell in a dry land.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive: thou hast received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the LORD God might dwell among them.
And might not be as their fathers, a stubborn and rebellious generation; a generation that set not their heart aright, and whose spirit was not stedfast with God.
(She is loud and stubborn; her feet abide not in her house:
Thy princes are rebellious, and companions of thieves: every one loveth gifts, and followeth after rewards: they judge not the fatherless, neither doth the cause of the widow come unto them.
Woe to the rebellious children, saith the LORD, that take counsel, but not of me; and that cover with a covering, but not of my spirit, that they may add sin to sin:
I have spread out my hands all the day unto a rebellious people, which walketh in a way that was not good, after their own thoughts;
But this people hath a revolting and a rebellious heart; they are revolted and gone.
They are all grievous revolters, walking with slanders: they are brass and iron; they are all corrupters.
For Israel slideth back as a backsliding heifer: now the LORD will feed them as a lamb in a large place.
All their wickedness is in Gilgal: for there I hated them: for the wickedness of their doings I will drive them out of mine house, I will love them no more: all their princes are revolters.
But they refused to hearken, and pulled away the shoulder, and stopped their ears, that they should not hear.
Every indexed verse link for Strong's H5637, grouped by book.
Carar (Strong's H5637) is a Hebrew word most simply glossed "turn away". carar (saw-rar') v. 1. to turn away, i.e. (morally) be refractory [a primitive root]
This page currently indexes 16 linked usages for Strong's H5637 across 8 books.
Use the linked verse references on this page to study Strong's H5637 in context. The indexed coverage includes Old Testament.
The visible usage excerpts most often surface English words such as rebellious, revolters, backsliding, and away. These are scanning signals from the displayed verses, not replacements for the original-language definition.