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שָׂרָה (sârâh) v (saw-raw')
Source: a primitive root;
Meaning: to prevail
KJV: have power (as a prince).

Brown, Driver, Briggs lexicon entry

u.ce.aa

שָׂרָה vb. persist, exert oneself, persevere

Appears in a total of 2 verses:

GEN 32:29

OET-LV: 29  and_he/it_said not Yaˊₐqoⱱ it_will_be_called again name_of_your if/because (if) Yisrā^ʼēl/(Israel) if/because you_have_struggled with god and_with people and_you_have_prevailed. (GEN 32:29)

OET-RV: 28 “You won’t be called Yacob anymore,” the man said, “but you’ll be ‘Yisra’el’ (‘Israel’, which means ‘he struggled with God’), because you have struggled with God and with men, and you won.” (GEN 32:28)

HOS 12:4

OET-LV: 4  in_womb he_took_by_the_heel DOM his/its_brother and_in_strength_of_his he_struggled with god. (HOS 12:4)

OET-RV: 3 In the womb he took his brother by the heel,
 ⇔ and in his manhood he struggled with God. (HOS 12:3)

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