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שָׂרָה

sa.rah

to strive

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Strong’s H8280Verb2 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

you have struggled1

he struggled1

In the text

Genesis 32:28שָׂרִיתָ
Then the man said, “Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with men, and you have prevailed.”
Hosea 12:3שָׂרָה
In the womb he grasped his brother’s heel, and in his vigor he wrestled with God.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שָׂרָה vb. persist, exert oneself, persevere

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.