שְׂרֵפָה
sᵉrêphâh · H8316 · Hebrew · 13 occurrences
Meanings
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burning, fire
Process by which objects are consumed by fire
ExamplesNumbers 19:6 ‘And the priest shall take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet material, and throw it into the midst of the burning heifer.
2 Chronicles 21:19 Now it came about in the course of time, at the end of two years, that his bowels came out because of his sickness, and he died in great pain. And his people did not make a funeral fire for him like the fire for his fathers.
Isaiah 9:5 For every boot of the marching warrior in the roar of battle, And cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.
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burnt
State in which an object has been affected by fire
ExamplesNumbers 19:17 ‘Then for the unclean person they shall take some of the ashes of the burnt purification from sin and running water shall be added to them in a container.
Deuteronomy 29:23 ‘All its land is brimstone and salt, burned debris, unsown and unproductive, and no grass grows on it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His anger and in His wrath.’
Isaiah 64:11 Our holy and beautiful house, Where our fathers praised You, Has been burned by fire; And all our precious things have become a ruin.
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to kindle a fire, to make a fire
Causative action by which humans or deities produce a fire
Examples2 Chronicles 16:14 They buried him in his own tomb which he had cut out for himself in the city of David, and they laid him in the resting place which he had filled with spices of various kinds blended by the perfumers’ art; and they made a very great fire for him.
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to burn hard
Causative action by which humans cause objects to be exposed to fire for a certain time
ExamplesGenesis 11:3 Then they said to one another, “Come, let’s make bricks and fire them thoroughly.” And they used brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
How it’s used In 5 roles
Every occurrence, grouped by the words it is grammatically related to.
the word studied the word it goes with
Whose, or of whatGenitive or possessive
4 occurrences in 4 groups
- אָבfather 1
- חַטָּאָהsin, sin offering 1
- פָּרָהcow 1
- אֵשׁfire 1
Words describing itAdjectives, demonstratives, participles
2 occurrences in 2 groups
- גָּדוֹלgreat, large 1
- שָׂרַףto burn 1
What is done to itIt is the object
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- בָּכָהto cry 1
- עָשָׂהto do, to make 1
- שָׂרַףto burn 1
After prepositionsPrepositional phrases
5 occurrences in 3 groups
- לto/for 6
- מִןfrom 2
- כlike/as 2
In phrases “… of it”It is the genitive
3 occurrences in 3 groups
- הַרmountain 1
- עָפָרdust, dirt 1
- תָּוֶךְmiddle 1
When two words share a role, as in “Paul and Barnabas said”, the verse appears under each, so a section’s counts can add up to more than the number of occurrences.
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Near synonyms 2 words
- יְקוֹד yᵉqôwd · H3350 · burning
- Both denote burning.
- בְּעֵרָה bᵉʻêrâh · H1200 · burning
- Both lexemes denote fire or burning phenomena, overlapping in describing combustion or flame, and function as near-synonyms in that sense.
In the other Testament 1 word
- πῦρ pŷr · G4442 · fire, bonfire
- Greek πῦρ ('fire') serves as the cross-linguistic equivalent for Hebrew שְׂרֵפָה ('burning') when the context focuses on the element fire itself rather than the abstract process; both terms denote combustion, with שְׂרֵפָה emphasizing the act/state of burning and πῦρ the fire as substance.
Semantic domains 1 entry
- Burn002001001009
- This noun denotes a burning, as in Leviticus 10:6's reference to the burning the LORD brought about against Nadab and Abihu, and Numbers 19:6's instruction concerning the burning of the heifer.
Word family 7 words
Words formed from the same root. They share a form, not always a meaning.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon H8316. serephah שְׂרֵפָה noun feminine burning; — absolute ׳שׂ Isa 9:4 +, construct…
שְׂרֵפָה noun feminine burning; — absolute ׳שׂ Isa 9:4 +, construct שְׂרֵפַת Num 19:6 +; — ׳לשׁ of brick-burning Gen 11:3 (+ שָׁרַף); destructive Amo 4:11; Isa 9:4, of land Deu 29:22, of temple, אֵשׁ לִשְׂרֵפַת הָיָה Isa 64:10, שׁ ׳הַר Jer 51:25 i.e. a burnt-out volcano (figurative of Babylonian ); of heifer Num 19:6, compare Num 19:17; of spices (probably) as funeral rite 2Ch 16:14 (as accusative of congnate meaning with verb), 2Ch 21:19 (object of עָשָׂה), 2Ch 21:19; of person (penal) Lev 10:6 (accusative of congnate meaning with verb, ׳י subject), Num 17:2.
Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain
Topical studies with this word 1 entry
Meanings adapted from the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament, © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0 and the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew (from the Semantic Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew), © United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0; MACULA Greek Linguistic Datasets, available at https://github.com/Clear-Bible/macula-greek/, licensed CC BY 4.0; MACULA Hebrew Linguistic Datasets © 2022-2024 by Biblica, Inc., CC BY 4.0. Westminster Leningrad Codex (tanach.us). OpenScriptures Hebrew Bible morphology (hb.openscriptures.org), CC BY 4.0.
Sources
eRhema lexical overview, based on the UBS Dictionary of Biblical Hebrew and the UBS Dictionary of the Greek New Testament (© United Bible Societies, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Macula Hebrew and Greek (Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0); released under CC BY-SA 4.0
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