Genesis 17:15
And mighty ones is speaking toward Father of Multitude, `Dominative is the woman of yourself; you are not summoning her self eternal name as Dominative for a name of herself is Noble Mistress.
And God will say to Abraham, Sarai, thy wife, thou shalt not call her name Sarai, for Sarah her name.
And God said to Abraham, You shall not call your wife Sarai by her name Sarai, for Sarah shall be her name;
And God said to Abraham, Sarai thy wife—her name shall not be called Sarai, Sarah shall be her name.
Footnotes
| 625 | Genesis 17:15 From Dominative to Noble Mistress Sarah שרה #8283 is derived from #8282 noble lady, princess, mistress. The root שרה sarah #8280 to persist, contend, exert oneself, strive as found in יִשְׂרָאֵל Isra-el, El-strives/God contends. See Gen. 32:28. This renaming is done after the narrative of her treatment of Hagar (her self) which was harsh. The word for princess (#8282) is only found in the plural sarot four times, and one time as a singular sarati #8282 שָרָתִי, “How she has sat separate, the City abundant of a people! She HAS BECOME as a widow of an abundant-one in the nations, a princess [sarati] in the provinces HAS BECOME a band of laborers!” Lam. 1:1 literal Other related meanings: sharah, to let loose, set free (#8281), palm or tree standing up stiff (#8284, Fuerst), bracelet (#8285), to connect, to attach to one another firmly, weave together (unused root, cf, Fuerst), intransitive to project upward, to be prominent, to rise up, to stand high up as a palm or ship mast (unused root, cf. Fuerst), intransitive to rule, to govern, be noble (unused, cf. Fuerst), sharah #8284 fortification, fem. of wall. Unlike other instances, we are not given an immediate reason or contextual definition for the new name. Context is more prophetic: “Good sits in an earth of wilderness, from a woman [eshet] of contentions and anger.” Proverbs 21:19 literal “In the belly, he took by the heel אֶת-his brother and in his might he has contended [sarah #8280] אֶת-Elohim. She goes from being a woman of contentions and anger to good... |