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Meaning, origin and etymology of the name Sisera


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Sisera Sisera

Sisera is the commander of the army of Jabin, the king of Canaan who attacks Israel. Judge Deborah and general Barak mount a highly successful counter attack, but Sisera himself dies at the hand of a lady named Jael.

BDB suggests that the extension -sira is common for Hittite names but gives no meaning. Fuerst draws towards a foreign word meaning meditator and NOBSE reads Meditation as well.

To a Hebrew audience the name Sisera may have reminded of the word sis (sis), whichJeremiah uses (8:7) in stead of the more common and highly similar sus (sus 1476), swallow or swift, or sus (sus 1477), horse. The -ra part of the name may have sounded as if it came from the verb raa (ra'a 2095), see, look. All this considered, the name Sisera may have sounded as meaning something like our word Hawk-Eye.



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