שָׂרַר sârar — to have (transitively, exercise
Translated in the KJV as × altogether, make self a prince, rule.
a primitive root; to have (transitively, exercise; reflexively, get) dominion.
sârar in each stem
Qal (Pa'al)
Imperfect (yiqtol) 2Participle (active) 1
For he sent letters into all the king’s provinces, into every province according to the writing thereof, and to every people after their language, that every man should bear rule in his own house, and that it should be published according to the language of every people.
By me princes rule, and nobles, even all the judges of the earth.
Behold, a king shall reign in righteousness, and princes shall rule in judgment.
Hitpa'el
Imperfect (yiqtol) 1Infinitive absolute 1
Is it a small thing that thou hast brought us up out of a land that floweth with milk and honey, to kill us in the wilderness, except thou make thyself altogether a prince over us?
Hiph'il
Perfect (qatal) 1
They have set up kings, but not by me: they have made princes, and I knew it not: of their silver and their gold have they made them idols, that they may be cut off.
What the stems mean
A Hebrew verb is its root letters set into a pattern. The pattern — the binyan — is the grammar's way of saying three things at once: whether the action is simple, intensive or causative, and whether its subject is active, passive or reflexive. That is why one Hebrew word can need six English ones. All seven binyanim, explained ›