noun · masculine

zara

GreekΖάρα (zara)

Strong’sG2196

Zerah

stem zar-once in the New Testament1 of 10 forms occur

Translated as

Zerah1×

What it means

Ζαρά, ὁ indecl. (Heb. זֶרַח, Ge 38:30),

Zerah, an ancestor of Jesus: Mt 1:3.†

G. Abbott-Smith, A Manual Greek Lexicon of the New Testament, 1922 — public domain. References open in the reader.

Strong’s G2196 — the 1890 definition, and where the word comes from

Saiddzar-ah'

Zara, (i.e. Zerach), an Israelite

Fromof Hebrew origin ();

King JamesZara.

James Strong, Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible, 1890 — public domain. The numbers in it link to the entries here.

Every form

Job in the sentence case	one singular	more than one plural
subject nominative	zara	zara
object accusative	zara1×Ζάρα	zara
direct address vocative	zara	zara
of, belonging to genitive	zara	zara
to, for dative	zara	zara

Tinted cells are forms the New Testament never uses, so there is no Greek to show against them — but they are still correct Biblang, built from the slots below like any other.

Why these forms, and no others — the slots that make them

zarastem

same in every form varies — every value shown

Where it appears

1 occurrence, every one of them listed

zara“Zerah”objectaccusative singular1×

Matthew 1:3“Zerah”Ioudaos de gennata ton Fares kai ton Zara ek tau Thamar, Fares de gennata ton Hesrōm, Hesrōm de gennata ton Aram,Judah was the father of Perez and Zerah by Tamar, Perez the father of Hezron, and Hezron the father of Ram.