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Hebrew verb · H8313

שָׂרַף

saraphsaw-raf'

to burn

117 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key

Concordance spelling: sâraph

Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8313is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.

  • 21 of 39
    Old Testament books
  • 86
    spellings

The definition in full

Strong's key (1890) · H8313

to be (causatively, set) on fire

The King James renders it: (cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, [idiom] utterly.

James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.

Summary

saraph is rendered "to burn". It stands 117 times in the Hebrew text, across twenty-one books.

  • Twenty-three of the uses stand in Jeremiah, more than in any other book.
  • Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Genesis 11:3And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.
  • The Greek text spells it eighty-six different ways.

The first use

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Genesis 11:3וְנִשְׂרְפָ֖ה

The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.

Where the word stands

What the word means

Each meaning, and the words it is translated by

How the Greek text is glossed, word by word

  • and he burned12
  • he burned11
  • it will be burned7
  • you will burn7
  • they burned6
  • and they burned5
  • burned5
  • and he will burn4
  • and they will burn it4
  • and you will burn3
  • people will burn3
  • to burn3

and 40 more, 117 uses in all

The words built on the same word-part

Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.

שָׂרִידsaridsurvivorUses28
שָׂרָףsaraphserpentUses7
שָׂרָהsarahprincessUses5
שָׂרַרsararto ruleUses5
שָׂרַטsaratto inciseUses3
שָׂרַעsarato extendUses3
שָׂרִיגsarigtendrilUses3
שָׂרַגsaragto intertwineUses2
שָׂרָהsarahto striveUses2
שָׂרַדsaradto escapeUses1
שָׂרֻקsaruqsorrelUses1
שָׂרוּקsaruqtendrilUses1

and 1 more on the stem.

The words it stands beside

All 117, in canonical order

Every use, in order

Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.

86 spellings and their grammar

STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.

How it is spelled

  • שָׂרַ֥ף7
  • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף5
  • וַיִּשְׂרְפ֥וּ3
  • וְשָׂרַ֥ף3
  • שָׂרַ֣ף3
  • שָׂרְפ֥וּ3
  • וְהַשֹּׂרֵ֣ף2
  • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֖ף2
  • וּשְׂרָפָ֖הּ2
  • יִשְׂרֹ֥ף2
  • יִשָּׂרֵֽף׃2
  • יִשְׂרְפ֥וּ2

and 74 more spellings in the ledger below.

The grammar of each form

  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular14HVqp3ms
  • Hc/Vqw3ms11Hc/Vqw3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common plural7HVqp3cp
  • Hc/Vqw3mp6Hc/Vqw3mp
  • Hc/Vqq3ms5Hc/Vqq3ms
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singular5HVNi3ms
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine plural5HVqi3mp
  • Hc/Vqq3cp/Sp3fs4Hc/Vqq3cp/Sp3fs
  • verb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singular4HVNi3fs
  • Hc/Vqq2ms3Hc/Vqq2ms
  • Hc/Vqq3cp3Hc/Vqq3cp
  • verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nun3HVqi2mp/Sn

Genesis

two uses
  • And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

    Genesis 11:3

    • וְנִשְׂרְפָ֖הvenisrefahconjunction (“and”) + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) · 1st person common pluraltagged: and let us burn
  • About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”

    Genesis 38:24

    • וְתִשָּׂרֵֽף׃vetisarefHC/VNu3fstagged: so she may be burned

Exodus

four uses
  • Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.

    Exodus 12:10

    • תִּשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃tisrofuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will burn
  • But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

    Exodus 29:14

    • תִּשְׂרֹ֣ףtisrofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will burn
  • And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.

    Exodus 29:34

    • וְשָׂרַפְתָּ֤vesaraftaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will burn
  • Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

    Exodus 32:20

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֣ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned

Leviticus

twenty-one uses
  • all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.

    Leviticus 4:12

    • וְשָׂרַ֥ףvesarafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will burn
    • יִשָּׂרֵֽף׃ פyisarefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be burned
  • Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

    Leviticus 4:21

    • וְשָׂרַ֣ףvesarafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will burn
    • שָׂרַ֔ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned
  • But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.

    Leviticus 6:30

    • תִּשָּׂרֵֽף׃ פtisarefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be burned
  • But any meat of the sacrifice remaining until the third day must be burned up.

    Leviticus 7:17

    • יִשָּׂרֵֽף׃yisarefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be burned
  • Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

    Leviticus 7:19

    • יִשָּׂרֵ֑ףyisarefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be burned
  • But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.

    Leviticus 8:17

    • שָׂרַ֣ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned
  • Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.

    Leviticus 8:32

    • תִּשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃tisrofuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine pluraltagged: you will burn
  • But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.

    Leviticus 9:11

    • שָׂרַ֣ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned
  • Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the LORD has ignited.

    Leviticus 10:6

    • שָׂרַ֥ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he has burned
  • Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, and asked,

    Leviticus 10:16

    • שֹׂרָ֑ףsorafverb · intensive passive (pual), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it had been burned
  • He is to burn the fabric, weave, or knit, whether the contaminated item is wool or linen or leather. Since the mildew is harmful, the article must be burned up.

    Leviticus 13:52

    • וְשָׂרַ֨ףvesarafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will burn
    • תִּשָּׂרֵֽף׃tisarefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be burned
  • After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or back.

    Leviticus 13:55

    • תִּשְׂרְפֶ֑נּוּtisrefenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will burn it
  • But if it reappears in the fabric, weave, or knit, or on any leather article, it is spreading. You must burn the contaminated article.

    Leviticus 13:57

    • תִּשְׂרְפֶ֔נּוּtisrefenuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: you will burn it
  • The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.

    Leviticus 16:27

    • וְשָׂרְפ֣וּvesarefuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and people will burn
  • The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

    Leviticus 16:28

    • וְהַשֹּׂרֵ֣ףvehasorefconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the burns
  • It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the next day; but what remains on the third day must be burned up.

    Leviticus 19:6

    • יִשָּׂרֵֽף׃yisarefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: it will be burned
  • If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

    Leviticus 20:14

    • יִשְׂרְפ֤וּyisrefuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will burn
  • If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.

    Leviticus 21:9

    • תִּשָּׂרֵֽף׃ סtisarefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: she will be burned

Numbers

five uses
  • So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

    Numbers 16:39

    • הַשְּׂרֻפִ֑יםhaserufimthe definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), passive participle · masculine pluraltagged: the were burned
  • Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.

    Numbers 19:5

    • וְשָׂרַ֥ףvesarafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he will burn
    • יִשְׂרֹֽף׃yisrofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will burn
  • The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

    Numbers 19:8

    • וְהַשֹּׂרֵ֣ףvehasorefconjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + verb · simple (qal), participle · masculine singulartagged: and the burns
  • Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,

    Numbers 31:10

    • שָׂרְפ֖וּsarefuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they burned

Deuteronomy

six uses
  • Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

    Deuteronomy 7:5

    • תִּשְׂרְפ֥וּןtisrefunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will burn
  • You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

    Deuteronomy 7:25

    • תִּשְׂרְפ֣וּןtisrefunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will burn
  • And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

    Deuteronomy 9:21

    • וָאֶשְׂרֹ֣ףvaesrofHc/Vqw1cstagged: and I burned
  • Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

    Deuteronomy 12:3

    • תִּשְׂרְפ֣וּןtisrefunverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine plural + paragogic nuntagged: you will burn
  • You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

    Deuteronomy 12:31

    • יִשְׂרְפ֥וּyisrefuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they burn
  • And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

    Deuteronomy 13:16

    • וְשָׂרַפְתָּ֨vesaraftaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will burn

Joshua

nine uses
  • Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.

    Joshua 6:24

    • שָׂרְפ֥וּsarefuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they burned
  • The one who is caught with the things devoted to destruction must be burned, along with all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD and committed an outrage in Israel.’”

    Joshua 7:15

    • יִשָּׂרֵ֣ףyisarefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will be burned
  • “Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

    Joshua 7:25

    • וַיִּשְׂרְפ֤וּvaiyisrefuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they burned
  • So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

    Joshua 8:28

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
  • Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn up their chariots.”

    Joshua 11:6

    • תִּשְׂרֹ֥ףtisrofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you will burn
  • Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.

    Joshua 11:9

    • שָׂרַ֥ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned
  • The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.

    Joshua 11:11

    • שָׂרַ֥ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned
  • Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

    Joshua 11:13

    • שְׂרָפָ֖םserafamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: it burned them
    • שָׂרַ֥ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned

Judges

five uses
  • When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.

    Judges 9:52

    • לְשָׂרְפ֥וֹlesarefopreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: to burn it
  • Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”

    Judges 12:1

    • נִשְׂרֹ֥ףnisrofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we will burn
  • So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

    Judges 14:15

    • נִשְׂרֹ֥ףnisrofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we should burn
  • “Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

    Judges 15:6

    • וַיִּשְׂרְפ֥וּvaiyisrefuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they burned
  • After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a tranquil and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.

    Judges 18:27

    • שָׂרְפ֥וּsarefuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they burned

1 Samuel

four uses
  • On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

    1 Samuel 30:1

    • וַיִּשְׂרְפ֥וּvaiyisrefuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they had burned
  • When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

    1 Samuel 30:3

    • שְׂרוּפָ֖הserufahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: burned
  • We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”

    1 Samuel 30:14

    • שָׂרַ֥פְנוּsarafnuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common pluraltagged: we had burned
  • all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

    1 Samuel 31:12

    • וַיִּשְׂרְפ֥וּvaiyisrefuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they burned

2 Samuel

two uses
  • The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

    2 Samuel 23:7

    • שָׂר֥וֹףsarofverb · simple (qal), infinitive absolutetagged: certainly to burn
    • יִשָּׂרְפ֖וּyisarefuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be burned

1 Kings

four uses
  • Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

    1 Kings 9:16

    • וַיִּשְׂרְפָ֣הּvaiyisrefahHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he had burned it
  • And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”

    1 Kings 13:2

    • יִשְׂרְפ֥וּyisrefuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will burn
  • He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    1 Kings 15:13

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֖ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
  • When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died

    1 Kings 16:18

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֨ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned

2 Kings

eleven uses
  • They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

    2 Kings 10:26

    • וַֽיִּשְׂרְפֽוּהָ׃vaiyisrefuhaHc/Vqw3mp/Sp3fstagged: and they burned it
  • the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.

    2 Kings 17:31

    • שֹׂרְפִ֤יםsorefimverb · simple (qal), participle · masculine pluraltagged: burning
  • Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

    2 Kings 23:4

    • וַֽיִּשְׂרְפֵ֞םvaiyisrefemHc/Vqw3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he burned them
  • He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

    2 Kings 23:6

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
  • And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.

    2 Kings 23:11

    • שָׂרַ֥ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned
  • He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

    2 Kings 23:15

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֧ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
    • וְשָׂרַ֥ףvesarafHc/Vqq3mstagged: and he burned
  • And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.

    2 Kings 23:16

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
  • On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

    2 Kings 23:20

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֛ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
  • He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

    2 Kings 25:9

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
    • שָׂרַ֥ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned

1 Chronicles

one use
  • There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.

    1 Chronicles 14:12

    • וַיִּשָּׂרְפ֖וּvaiyisarefuHc/VNw3mptagged: and they were burned

2 Chronicles

five uses
  • King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

    2 Chronicles 15:16

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֖ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
  • And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.

    2 Chronicles 16:14

    • וַיִּשְׂרְפוּ־vaiyisrefu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they burned
  • Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

    2 Chronicles 34:5

    • שָׂרַ֖ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned
  • Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

    2 Chronicles 36:19

    • וַֽיִּשְׂרְפוּ֙vaiyisrefuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they burned
    • שָׂרְפ֣וּsarefuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they burned

Nehemiah

one use
  • before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

    Nehemiah 4:2

    • שְׂרוּפֽוֹת׃serufotverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: burned

Psalms

three uses
  • He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.

    Psalms 46:9

    • יִשְׂרֹ֥ףyisrofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burns
  • They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

    Psalms 74:8

    • שָׂרְפ֖וּsarefuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they burned
  • Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

    Psalms 80:16

    • שְׂרֻפָ֣הserufahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: burned

Proverbs

one use
  • Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

    Proverbs 6:27

    • תִשָּׂרַֽפְנָה׃tisarafnahverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine pluraltagged: will they be burned

Isaiah

four uses
  • Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

    Isaiah 1:7

    • שְׂרֻפ֣וֹתserufotverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine pluraltagged: burned
  • He burns half of it in the fire, and he roasts meat on that half. He eats the roast and is satisfied. Indeed, he warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”

    Isaiah 44:16

    • שָׂרַ֣ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burns
  • And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

    Isaiah 44:19

    • שָׂרַ֣פְתִּיsaraftiverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 1st person common singulartagged: I burned
  • Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

    Isaiah 47:14

    • שְׂרָפָ֔תַםserafatamverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person feminine singular + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: it has burned them

Jeremiah

twenty-three uses
  • They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

    Jeremiah 7:31

    • לִשְׂרֹ֛ףlisrofpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to burn
  • They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

    Jeremiah 19:5

    • לִשְׂרֹ֧ףlisrofpreposition + verb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to burn
  • For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’

    Jeremiah 21:10

    • וּשְׂרָפָ֖הּuserafahHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he will burn it
  • And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.

    Jeremiah 32:29

    • וּשְׂרָפ֑וּהָuserafuhaHc/Vqq3cp/Sp3fstagged: and they will burn it
  • The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.

    Jeremiah 34:2

    • וּשְׂרָפָ֖הּuserafahHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3fstagged: and he will burn it
  • you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”

    Jeremiah 34:5

    • יִשְׂרְפוּ־yisrefu-verb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: people will burn
  • Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

    Jeremiah 34:22

    • וּשְׂרָפֻ֣הָuserafuhaHc/Vqq3cp/Sp3fstagged: and they will burn it
  • Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

    Jeremiah 36:25

    • שְׂרֹ֖ףserofverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: to burn
  • After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

    Jeremiah 36:27

    • שְׂרֹ֣ףserofverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”)tagged: burned
  • “Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.

    Jeremiah 36:28

    • שָׂרַ֖ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned
  • You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’

    Jeremiah 36:29

    • שָׂרַ֜פְתָּsaraftaverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: you burned
  • Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

    Jeremiah 36:32

    • שָׂרַ֛ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he had burned
  • Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.

    Jeremiah 37:8

    • וּשְׂרָפֻ֥הָuserafuhaHc/Vqq3cp/Sp3fstagged: and they will burn it
  • Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”

    Jeremiah 37:10

    • וְשָֽׂרְפ֛וּvesarefuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will burn
  • Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.

    Jeremiah 38:17

    • תִשָּׂרֵ֖ףtisarefverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person feminine singulartagged: it will be burned
  • But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape their grasp.’”

    Jeremiah 38:18

    • וּשְׂרָפ֖וּהָuserafuhaHc/Vqq3cp/Sp3fstagged: and they will burn it
  • All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”

    Jeremiah 38:23

    • תִּשְׂרֹ֥ףtisrofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 2nd person masculine singulartagged: it will burn
  • The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

    Jeremiah 39:8

    • שָׂרְפ֥וּsarefuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they burned
  • I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.

    Jeremiah 43:12

    • וּשְׂרָפָ֖םuserafamHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3mptagged: and he will burn them
  • He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”

    Jeremiah 43:13

    • יִשְׂרֹ֥ףyisrofverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he will burn
  • The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”

    Jeremiah 51:32

    • שָׂרְפ֣וּsarefuverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person common pluraltagged: they have burned
  • He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

    Jeremiah 52:13

    • וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
    • שָׂרַ֥ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned

Ezekiel

four uses
  • Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

    Ezekiel 5:4

    • וְשָׂרַפְתָּ֥vesaraftaHc/Vqq2mstagged: and you will burn
  • Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.

    Ezekiel 16:41

    • וְשָׂרְפ֤וּvesarefuHc/Vqq3cptagged: and they will burn
  • The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

    Ezekiel 23:47

    • יִשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃yisrofuverb · simple (qal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will burn
  • Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.

    Ezekiel 43:21

    • וּשְׂרָפוֹ֙userafoHc/Vqq3ms/Sp3mstagged: and someone will burn it

Amos

one use
  • This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.

    Amos 2:1

    • שָׂרְפ֛וֹsarefoverb · simple (qal), infinitive (“to…”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: burned he

Micah

one use
  • All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.

    Micah 1:7

    • יִשָּׂרְפ֣וּyisarefuverb · passive or reflexive (niphal), yiqtol (imperfect) · 3rd person masculine pluraltagged: they will be burned

The letters

Gematria 580· 1,300 mispar gadol

Where it leads

How the numbers are counted

Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.

Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.

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The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.

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Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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