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 39Old Testament books
- 86spellings
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
The word stands in twenty-one of the 39 Old Testament books.
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.
| Word | Written | Meaning | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| שָׂרִיד | sarid | survivor | Uses28 |
| שָׂרָף | saraph | serpent | Uses7 |
| שָׂרָה | sarah | princess | Uses5 |
| שָׂרַר | sarar | to rule | Uses5 |
| שָׂרַט | sarat | to incise | Uses3 |
| שָׂרַע | sara | to extend | Uses3 |
| שָׂרִיג | sarig | tendril | Uses3 |
| שָׂרַג | sarag | to intertwine | Uses2 |
| שָׂרָה | sarah | to strive | Uses2 |
| שָׂרַד | sarad | to escape | Uses1 |
| שָׂרֻק | saruq | sorrel | Uses1 |
| שָׂרוּק | saruq | tendril | Uses1 |
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.
- 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!”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- שָׂרַ֣ףsarafverb · simple (qal), qatal (perfect) · 3rd person masculine singulartagged: he burned
Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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,
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- וַיִּשְׂרְפ֤וּvaiyisrefuHc/Vqw3mptagged: and they burned
So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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!”
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.
- 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
- וַיִּשְׂרֹ֨ףvaiyisrofHc/Vqw3mstagged: and he burned
2 Kings
eleven uses
They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- וַיִּשְׂרְפוּ־vaiyisrefu-Hc/Vqw3mptagged: and they burned
Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.
- 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.
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- שְׂרֻפָ֣הserufahverb · simple (qal), passive participle · feminine singulartagged: burned
Proverbs
one use
Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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?”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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:
- 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.
- 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?’
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.’”
- 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.”
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
The words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
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.
