Sisera
Sisera (Heb. סיסרא) is mentioned in the Judges 4:2 in the
Hebrew Bible. In the times of the Israelite Judges, Sisera
was the captain of the army of Jabin, king of Canaan.
According to Judges 4:3 , Sisera had nine hundred iron
chariots and oppressed the Israelites for twenty years. The
leadership of the Israelite tribes at the time fell to the ...
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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?...
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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....
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The children of Barkos, the children of Sisera, the children
of Thamah,...
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sis'-er-a (cicera', of doubtful meaning; S(e)isara):
(1) Given in Judges 4 as the captain of the army of Jabin,
king of Hazor. The accounts given of the battle of Sisera
with Barak, as found in Judges 4 and 5, have important
points of difference. The first is a prose, the second a
poetic narrative. In the first only Naphtali and Zebulun are
me...
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-1. Captain of a Canaanite army, defeated by Barak; killed by
Jael
Jud 4; 5:20-31; 1Sa 12:9; Ps 83:9
-2. One of the Nethinim
Ezr 2:53; Ne 7:55...
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(battle array).
1. Captain of the army of Jabin king of Canaan, who
reigned in Hazor. He himself resided in Harosheth of the
Gentiles. The particulars of the rout of Megiddo and of
Sisera's flight and death are drawn out under the heads of
BARAK, DEBORAH, JAEL, KISHON. (B.C. 1296.)
2. After a long interval the name appears in the lists
of Ne...
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(Egypt. Ses-Ra, "servant of Ra"). (1.) The captain of
Jabin's
army (Judg. 4:2), which was routed and destroyed by
the army of
Barak on the plain of Esdraelon. After all was lost
he fled to
the settlement of Heber the Kenite in the plain of
Zaanaim.
Jael, Heber's wife, received him into her tent with
apparent
hospitality, and "gave him but...
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1. Captain of the host of Jabin, the Canaanite king who
reigned in HAZOR. (See JABIN; JAEL; BARAK; DEBORAH; KISHON.)
Sisera resided in Harosheth of the Gentiles.
frontHAROSHETH.) His doom was a standing reference in after
times (1 Samuel 12:9; Psalm 83:9). The "curdled milk", still
offered by Bedouin as a delicacy to guests, is called leben.
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