International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Princess

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International Standard Bible Encyclopedia: Princess


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prin´ses: The Hebrew term is שׂרה, sārāh (compare sar, prince, and “Sarah”); it means (1) a queen (, the King James Version and the Revised Version (British and American) both “queen”); (2) the consort of a king contrasted with his concubines (, “He had seven hundred wives. princesses, and three hundred concubines”); (3) the wife of a prince ( : the “princesses of Persia and Media”); (4) it is metaphorically used of the city of Jerusalem ().