Prince, Minister, Leader, Sar
Brown-Driver-Briggs makes a very good argument for the word "sar" meaning royalty, in Assyrian. (King) However, using another language to translate a word can be both helpful, and misleading. What they did not take into consideration is the fact that royalty also acted as ministers. (As in, ministering in peace.) Or (Minister of the faith.) The Hebrew word "Sar" is best translated as "Minister." The Hebrew word "Sar" should never be given a translation as having to do with royalty.
Brown-Driver-Briggs
שַׂר420 noun masculine chieftain, chief, ruler, official, captain, prince (Late Hebrew especially of angels; Assyrian šarru, king)
I just saw what you just posted in your other thread concerning this and it really is rediculous. If you want to go around telling people there is no such thing as the Prince of peace then go right ahead and see how far that gets you. The problem you actually have is a mental paradigm that does not allow for "angelic beings" anywhere in the text because you have already decided for yourself that there are no such beings but rather "the pagans and the RCC inserted their paganism into the scriptures" as you have said on many occasions. I thank God that you were not a Pope who lived some fifteen or sixteen hundred years ago because, if so, we might not have any mention of angelic beings left at all in the Scripture. If it were up to you the Prince of princes would rather be "the Minister of ministers"! :crackup:
Sar is much more often used to denote one who has authority over others like a general or a captain of an army. What do you do with the following passages which both speak of the same personage? Is this the "minister" of the armies of YHWH?
Daniel 8:11a
11a. Yea, he magnified himself even to the Captain of the host-army [Sar tsaba']
Joshua 5:13-15
13. And it came to pass, when Yhoshua was by Yericho, that he lifted up his eyes and looked, and, behold, there stood a man over against him with his sword drawn in his hand: and Yhoshua went unto him, and said unto him, Are you for us, or for our adversaries?
14. And he said, Nay, but as Captain of the host-army of YHWH [Sar tsaba' YHWH] am I now come. And Yhoshua fell on his face to the earth, and did obeisance, and said unto him, What saith Adoniy unto his servant?
15. And Sar tsaba' YHWH said unto Yhoshua, Loose thy shoe from off thy foot; for the place whereon you stand is holy. And Yhoshua did so.
Also, from the OP in your other thread, was it not already mentioned twice to you concerning nagiyd and the Nagiyd-Commander of the Covenant in that "other" forum? You still do not even have the correct Reference Number listed for nagiyd and this is now the third time it has been mentioned. You really need to change that before you copy and paste it again. :chuckle: