Lexical Summary sharsherah: chain Original Word: שַׁרְשְׁרָהTransliteration: sharsherah Phonetic Spelling: (shar-sher-aw') Part of Speech: Noun Feminine Short Definition: chain Meaning: a chain, a garland Strong's Concordance chain From sharash (compare sharshah); a chain; (arch.) Probably a garland -- chain. see HEBREW sharash see HEBREW sharshah Brown-Driver-Briggs H8333. sharsherah [שַׁרְשְׁרָה] noun feminine (in spite of following suffix masculine Exodus 28:14, Ges§ 135o AlbrZAW xv (1895), 316, xvi (1896), 96) chain (Assyrian šaršarratu, chain, fetter; Mishna שַׁרְשָׁרוֺת, Talmud שַׁרְשׁוּרָא, Syriac , chain or rope of palm-leaves, etc., but also Late Hebrew שַׁלְשֶׁלֶת chain, שֵׁישְׁלָא ᵑ7, Syriac [whence Arabic , see Ethiopic ], (connection with ׳שַׁר denied by NöB88W 56 Anm. 9)); — plural שַׁרְשְׁרוֺת, absolute 1 Kings 7:17 +, רֹת- absolute 2 Chronicles 3:15, construct Exodus 28:14 +, שַׁרְשֹׁת 28:22 (either abbreviated or textual error); — chains of gold, like wreaths, attached to ephod 28:14 (twice in verse); 28:22; 39:15; ornaments on pillars at porch of temple 1 Kings 7:17 (שׁ מַעֲשֵׂה ׳גְּדִלִים), "" 2 Chronicles 3:15-16, (twice in verse). שׁרשׁ (apparently √ of following; DiJob 40:16 Buhl and others think = שׁרשׁר, √ שׁרר, compare שֹׁר, etc., Ethiopic nerve, muscle, whence שֹׁרֶשׁ as root-fibre, but word very ancient, and this der,quite unproven; SchwZMG iii (1898), 140 f. compare Arabic ( by dissimilation), thorn-bush, hard, rough, rugged (of ground), ill-natured, cross; hence שֹׁרֶשׁ, from tough, gnarled root-fibres; Late Hebrew and Phoenician שרש, Assyrian šuršu, all root, Sabean שרס (see Arabic above) root, foundation HomChr 124, אשרס foundation DHMAMG xxix (1875), 606; xxxvii (1883), 415; Aramaic שׁוֺרְשָׁא, root). |
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