Bible Person
Meaning: that sees a horse or a swallow · Male · 2 cross references
This Sisera entry refers to a servant-house or returnee family in Ezra and Nehemiah, not to the Canaanite commander defeated in Judges. It belongs to the post-exilic community remembered through named households. First appears in Ezra 2:53.1
AI summary: This Sisera matters because the cross references place the name among the returnee lists that preserve the social texture of the restored community. Its distinction from the famous military opponent in Judges is essential, since the same name carries very different associations elsewhere. Taken together, the material presents this Sisera as a household group in post-exilic restoration rather than a battlefield enemy.1
Central Figure
Sisera
Meaning: that sees a horse or a swallow
The ancestor of some of the Nethinim who returned with Zerubbabel (Ezra 2:53; Neh.
AI-assisted summary prepared for ai-BIBLE and stored as page content, based on dictionary material, person metadata, and linked Bible cross references.
Alistair de Blacquiere-Clarkson, “ai-BIBLE Bible Names JSON Factsheet Aggregating Material from Smith’s Bible Dictionary & Hitcocks’s New and Complete Analysis of the Bible.” ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
M.G.Easton, Illustrated Bible Dictionary, ai-BIBLE electronic edition, version 1.0.
Robert Rouse, “Theographic Bible Information,” Theographic-Bible-Metadata, 2020, https://github.com/robertrouse/theographic-bible-metadata.