שְׂדֵרָה
row
‘row’ is one of 3 main senses fuller range ↓
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Plural
- More than one (in Hebrew, generally three or more).
Every verse where H7713 appears in the Book of 2 Kings — 2 distinct verses. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
2 Kings
- 2 Kings 11:8 הַ/שְּׂדֵר֖וֹת ptcl def.art + n c fp You shall compass the king round about, every man with his weapons in his hand; and he who comes within the ranks, let him be slain: and be you with the king when he goes out, and when he comes in.
- 2 Kings 11:15 לַ/שְּׂדֵרֹ֔ת prep det + n c fp Jehoiada the priest commanded the captains of hundreds who were set over the host, and said to them, Have her forth between the ranks; and him who follows her kill with the sword. For the priest said, Don't let her be slain in the house of Yahweh.
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun שדרה centers on the idea of “row.” A scarce word — 4 verses in all of the Hebrew Bible. The word gravitates to 2 Kings (50%), then 1 Kings and 2 Chronicles. First canonically at 1 Kings 6:9, it enters the text early. Lexicons map it across 3 senses. For the data behind this summary, explore the sense tree and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H7713 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 4
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 4 distinct verses.
- 3 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 3 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #3,696
- by frequency
- Top 5000 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 3,696 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 4 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- 2 Kings 2 verses 50%
- 1 Kings 1 verse 25%
- 2 Chronicles 1 verse 25%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 4 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 3 verses · 75%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 1 verse · 25%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Boards 1×, Ranges 1×, Within the ranges 1×
- American Standard Version: Planks 1×, Ranks 1×, Within the ranks 1×
- Berean Standard Bible: Ranks 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Ranks 3×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H7713 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Not rendered by a distinct English word in 1 further occurrence.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H7713 across 3 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H7713 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H7713 across 4 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 1 rendering that appears only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 3 senses BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- row, rank (of soldiers)
- rows, ranks
- technical term of building
Word origin
[ שְׂדֵרָה ] n.f. 1. row, rank of soldiers in line. 2. architectural term.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: from an unused root meaning to regulate
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שִׁדְרָה
- (v. שְׁדַר II) [twisted cord,]
- 1. spinal column. Ḥull. III, 2 נשברה הש׳ ולא וכ׳ if the spinal column is broken, but its cord is not severed. Ib. 1. Gen. R. s. 28, beg., a. e. לוז של ש׳, v. לוּז II. Sabb. 147ᵇ חומרי ש׳ Rashi (ed. שדרא) the knots of the spine(vertebræ). Ohol. I, 8, v. חוּלְיָא I; a. fr.—B. Kam. 16ᵃ שִׁדְרוֹ של אדם a man’s spine. Ber. 55ᵃ; Sabb. 81ᵃ שדרו של דג the back-bone of a fish.—Pl. שִׁדְרָאוֹת. Nidd. 24ᵃ; Bekh. VII, 2; Ḥull. 60ᵇ, v. גַּב.
- 2. stem, rib of a plant. Lev. R. s. 30 הש׳ של לולב דומה לש׳ וכ׳ the rib of the palm-branch resembles the spinal column of man. ‘Ukts. I, 2 הש׳ של שבולת the stem of an ear (of wheat). Ḥull. 119ᵇ בש׳ it refers to the stem of an ear of wheat, v. שֹׁומֵר; a. fr.—V. שִׁזְרָה.
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 4 distinct written forms H7713 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/שְּׂדֵר֔וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 23:14 | 1 |
| הַ/שְּׂדֵר֖וֹת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Kings 11:8 | 1 |
| וּ/שְׂדֵרֹ֖ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 1 Kings 6:9 | 1 |
| לַ/שְּׂדֵרֹ֔ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Plural, Absolute | 2 Kings 11:15 | 1 |
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 4 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 4 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
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