סִיסְרָא

Judges 4:2 סִֽיסְרָ֔א Sisera

So the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, who reigned in Hazor. The commander of his forces was Sisera, who lived in Harosheth-hagoyim.

Here: The name is not Semitic, so it is probably foreign to Canaan itself (Luwian/Anatolian or Sea-Peoples origin have been proposed). The general, not the king, turns out to be the real opponent in the story.

Judges 4:7 סִֽיסְרָא֙ Sisera

And I will draw out Sisera the commander of Jabin’s army, his chariots, and his troops to the River Kishon, and I will deliver him into your hand.’”

Judges 4:9 סִֽיסְרָ֑א Sisera

“I will certainly go with you,” Deborah replied, “but the road you are taking will bring you no honor, because the LORD will be selling Sisera into the hand of a woman.” So Deborah got up and went with Barak to Kedesh,

Judges 4:12 לְסִֽיסְרָ֑א to Sisera

When Sisera was told that Barak son of Abinoam had gone up Mount Tabor,

Judges 4:13 סִֽיסְרָ֜א Sisera

he summoned all nine hundred of his iron chariots and all the men with him, from Harosheth-hagoyim to the River Kishon.

Judges 4:14 סִֽיסְרָא֙ Sisera

Then Deborah said to Barak, “Arise, for this is the day that the LORD has delivered Sisera into your hand. Has not the LORD gone before you?” So Barak came down from Mount Tabor with ten thousand men following him.

Here: Commander of Jabin's army, with 900 iron chariots (4:3, 13). The name is probably not Semitic, perhaps from one of the Sea Peoples or from Hurrian. He alone is named as the one handed over, standing for his whole force.

Judges 4:15 סִֽיסְרָ֨א סִֽיסְרָ֛א Sisera

And in front of him the LORD routed with the sword Sisera, all his charioteers, and all his army. Sisera abandoned his chariot and fled on foot.

Judges 4:16 סִֽיסְרָא֙ Sisera

Then Barak pursued the chariots and army as far as Harosheth-hagoyim, and the whole army of Sisera fell by the sword; not a single man was left.

Judges 4:17 וְסִֽיסְרָא֙ and Sisera

Meanwhile, Sisera had fled on foot to the tent of Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, because there was peace between Jabin king of Hazor and the house of Heber the Kenite.

Judges 4:18 סִֽיסְרָא֒ Sisera

Jael went out to greet Sisera and said to him, “Come in, my lord. Come in with me. Do not be afraid.” So he entered her tent, and she covered him with a blanket.

Judges 4:22 סִֽיסְרָא֒ סִֽיסְרָא֙ Sisera

When Barak arrived in pursuit of Sisera, Jael went out to greet him and said to him, “Come, and I will show you the man you are seeking.” So he went in with her, and there lay Sisera dead, with a tent peg through his temple.

Judges 5:20 סִיסְרָֽא׃ Sisera

From the heavens the stars fought; from their courses they fought against Sisera.

Here: Commander of the Canaanite chariot army under Jabin (Judg 4:2–3). His name is not Semitic, and he is the one human target named in the verse. The whole sky turns against one general.

Judges 5:26 סִֽיסְרָא֙ Sisera

She reached for the tent peg, her right hand for the workman’s hammer. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull; she shattered and pierced his temple.

Judges 5:28 סִֽיסְרָ֖א Sisera

Sisera’s mother looked through the window; she peered through the lattice and lamented: ‘Why is his chariot so long in coming? What has delayed the clatter of his chariots?’

Judges 5:30 לְסִ֣יסְרָ֔א for Sisera

‘Are they not finding and dividing the spoil—a girl or two for each warrior, a plunder of dyed garments for Sisera, the spoil of embroidered garments for the neck of the looter?’

1 Samuel 12:9 סִֽיסְרָא֩ Sisera

But they forgot the LORD their God, and He sold them into the hand of Sisera the commander of the army of Hazor, and into the hands of the Philistines and the king of Moab, who fought against them.

Here: The Canaanite war leader of Judges 4–5, whose chariots oppressed northern Israel. The name does not look Hebrew or Canaanite, and its origin is uncertain.

Ezra 2:53 סִֽיסְרָ֖א Sisera

the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,

Nehemiah 7:55 סִֽיסְרָ֖א Sisera

the descendants of Barkos, the descendants of Sisera, the descendants of Temah,

Here: A family head of the temple servants. The name is spelled the same as that of the Canaanite general in Judges 4–5. It is probably not a Hebrew name, and it fits the foreign look of many names in this list.

Psalm 83:9 כְּֽסִֽיסְרָ֥א like Sisera

Do to them as You did to Midian, as to Sisera and Jabin at the River Kishon,