Bible Names

Sisera: meaning of the name

Sisera means “that sees a horse or a swallow.”
Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (1869)boy name

Sisera in Hebrew and Greek

סִיסְרָא H5516

Çîyçᵉrâʼ (see-ser-aw') — Sisera, the name of a Canaanitish king and of one of the Nethinim

of uncertain derivation;

People named Sisera in the Bible

Sisera in Scripture

“Sisera” appears in 19 verses of the King James Version; here are the first 8.

  • Judges 4:2

    And the Lord sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles.

  • Judges 4:7

    And I will draw unto thee to the river Kishon Sisera, the captain of Jabin’s army, with his chariots and his multitude; and I will deliver him into thine hand.

  • Judges 4:9

    And she said, I will surely go with thee: notwithstanding the journey that thou takest shall not be for thine honour; for the Lord shall sell Sisera into the hand of a woman. And Deborah arose, and went with Barak to Kedesh.

  • Judges 4:12

    And they shewed Sisera that Barak the son of Abinoam was gone up to mount Tabor.

  • Judges 4:13

    And Sisera gathered together all his chariots, even nine hundred chariots of iron, and all the people that were with him, from Harosheth of the Gentiles unto the river of Kishon.

  • Judges 4:14

    And Deborah said unto Barak, Up; for this is the day in which the Lord hath delivered Sisera into thine hand: is not the Lord gone out before thee? So Barak went down from mount Tabor, and ten thousand men after him.

  • Judges 4:15

    And the Lord discomfited Sisera, and all his chariots, and all his host, with the edge of the sword before Barak; so that Sisera lighted down off his chariot, and fled away on his feet.

  • Judges 4:16

    But Barak pursued after the chariots, and after the host, unto Harosheth of the Gentiles: and all the host of Sisera fell upon the edge of the sword; and there was not a man left.