Hebrew noun (feminine) · H8316
שְׂרֵפָה
serephahser-ay-faw'
fire
13 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: sᵉrêphâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H8316is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 8 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H8316
cremation
The King James renders it: burning.
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
serephah is rendered "fire". It stands 13 times in the Hebrew text, across eight books.
- Three of the uses stand in Numbers, 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 eleven 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 11:3לִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
The word stands in eight 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
- a burning2
- burning of2
- the burning2
- a burning waste1
- burning1
- for burning1
- from burning1
- into a burning of1
- like burning of1
- to burning1
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.
All 13, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 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
- הַשְּׂרֵפָ֔ה2
- שְׂרֵפָ֖ה2
- כִּשְׂרֵפַ֥ת1
- לִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה1
- לִשְׂרֵפָ֖ה1
- לִשְׂרֵ֣פַת1
- מִשְׂרֵפָ֑ה1
- שְׂרֵפָ֣ה1
- שְׂרֵפָֽה׃1
- שְׂרֵפַ֥ת1
- שְׂרֵפַ֣ת1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular4HNcfsa
- preposition + noun · feminine singular3HR/Ncfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HR/Ncfsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singular2HTd/Ncfsa
Genesis
one 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.
- לִשְׂרֵפָ֑הlisrefahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: to burning
Leviticus
one use
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.
- הַשְּׂרֵפָ֔הhaserefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the burning
Numbers
three uses
“Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to remove the censers from the flames and to scatter the coals far away, because the censers are holy.
- הַשְּׂרֵפָ֔הhaserefahthe definite article (“the”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: the burning
The priest is to take cedar wood, hyssop, and scarlet wool and throw them onto the burning heifer.
- שְׂרֵפַ֥תserefatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: burning of
For the purification of the unclean person, take some of the ashes of the burnt sin offering, put them in a jar, and pour fresh water over them.
- שְׂרֵפַ֣תserefatnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: burning of
Deuteronomy
one use
All its soil will be a burning waste of sulfur and salt, unsown and unproductive, with no plant growing on it, just like the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD overthrew in His fierce anger.
- שְׂרֵפָ֣הserefahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a burning waste
2 Chronicles
three uses
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.
- שְׂרֵפָ֖הserefahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a burning
This continued day after day until two full years had passed. Finally, his intestines came out because of his disease, and he died in severe pain. And his people did not make a fire in his honor as they had done for his fathers.
- שְׂרֵפָ֖הserefahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a burning
- כִּשְׂרֵפַ֥תkisrefatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: like burning of
Isaiah
two uses
For every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
- לִשְׂרֵפָ֖הlisrefahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: for burning
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
- לִשְׂרֵ֣פַתlisrefatpreposition + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: into a burning of
Jeremiah
one use
“Behold, I am against you, O destroying mountain, you who devastate the whole earth, declares the LORD. I will stretch out My hand against you; I will roll you over the cliffs and turn you into a charred mountain.
- שְׂרֵפָֽה׃serefahnoun · feminine singulartagged: burning
Amos
one use
“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD.
- מִשְׂרֵפָ֑הmiserefahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: from burning
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 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.