Seraya
Seraja is a biblical person named in the book of Samuel as a scribe at the court of King David . In addition, there are other biblical persons with this name, such as B. the quartermaster Zedekias , who is supposed to symbolically convey words of doom about Babylon ( Jer 51 EU ) and a high priest during the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem ( 2 Kings 25:18 EU ).
etymology
The personal name שְׂרָיָה śərājāh , German 'Seraja' ( 2 Sam 8,17 EU ) is derived from the root according to Berridgeשׂרה śrh , German ' to survive' and the name of God jāh and can thus be translated as “YHWH has survived”. Instead, Hans Rechenmacher derives the name fromשׂרה śrh as a subsidiary form ofשׂרר śrr , German 'rule' from and translated “YHWH has ruled”, in Gesenius “YHWH is ruler” is suggested as a translation.
The Septuagint gives the name as Ασα Asa , the Vulgate as Saraias .
Mentions in the Bible
Seraja is mentioned in the Book of Samuel as part of the court of David at the beginning of David's reign. In a second enumeration of the court of David in 2 Sam 20.25 EU a שֵׁיָא šejā 'is mentioned as a scribe.
Another Seraiah, the son of Neriah, travels to Jer 51f. EU as court official with King Zedekiah in the fourth year of his reign (594/93 B.C.E.) to Babylon to assure King Nebuchadnezzar Judas' authority. The prophet Jeremiah hands him a scroll with a message of calamity for Babylon, which Seraja is supposed to read aloud and to sink symbolically in the Euphrates.
The same name also appears in other contexts in the Hebrew Bible. For example, 2 Kings 25 EU reports of a high priest of this name who is led into exile in Babylon. A court member of King Jehoiakim , Seraja, son of Asriël, receives the order in Jer 36,26 EU to arrest the prophet Jeremiah. A few chapters later, Seraja, the son of Tanhumet, appears as one of the leaders who settled around the governor Gedaliah ( Jer 40.8 EU ). In 1 Chr 4f. EU is mentioned in the list of descendants of Judas a Seraja, son of Kenas. A Seraja is also named as one of the returnees from exile ( Ezra 2.2 EU ) and in Neh 10-12 EU as one of the rulers, Levites and priests.
literature
- Cornelia Assmann: Seraja. In: Michaela Bauks, Klaus Koenen, Stefan Alkier (Eds.): The Scientific Biblical Lexicon on the Internet (WiBiLex), Stuttgart 2006 ff.
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Individual evidence
- ^ A b John M. Berridge: Seraja . In: Anchor Bible Dictionary . Volume 5: O-Sh, Yale University Press, New Haven 1992, ISBN 978-0300140057 , page 1104f.
- ↑ Hans Rechenmacher : Old Hebrew names , Münster 2012, p. 152.
- ↑ Art. שְׂרָיָה, In: Gesenius, 18th ed. 2013 , p. 1300.