שְׂרֵפָה serephah
Hebrew word for “fire” · Strong’s H8316 · used 13 times in 12 verses
Meaning
burning
How it is translated
Glosses given for serephah in context, with how often each is used:
- burning 11
- burning waste 1
- like the burning 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Numbers | 3 | 0.2 | |
| 2 Chronicles | 3 | 0.2 | |
| Isaiah | 2 | 0.1 | |
| Genesis | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Leviticus | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Deuteronomy | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Amos | 1 | 0.5 |
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 19 (2), Genesis 11 (1), Leviticus 10 (1), Numbers 16 (1), Deuteronomy 29 (1), 2 Chronicles 16 (1), 2 Chronicles 21 (1), Isaiah 9 (1), Isaiah 64 (1), Jeremiah 51 (1)
Forms
- שׂרפה 4
- לשׂרפה 2
- השׂרפה 2
- שׂרפת 2
- כשׂרפת 1
- לשׂרפת 1
- משׂרפה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with serephah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- מַהְפֵּכָה mahpekhah “overthrow” 2
- שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 3
- גָּלַל galal “to roll” 2
- עֲמֹרָה amorah “Gomorrah” 2
- סְדֹם sedom “Sodom” 2
- אֵשׁ esh “fire” 3
- אֶלְעָזָר elazar “Eleazar” 2
- הָפַךְ haphakh “to overturn” 2
- אַהֲרֹן aharon “Aaron” 2
- נְאֻם neum “utterance” 2
- כֹּהֵן kohen “priest” 2
- מוּת mut “to die” 2
Key verses
The verses using serephah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Genesis 11:3 — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
- Leviticus 10:6 — And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come…
- Numbers 16:37 — Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
- Numbers 19:6 — And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
- Numbers 19:17 — And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
- Deuteronomy 29:23 — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of…
- 2 Chronicles 16:14 — And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and…
- 2 Chronicles 21:19 — And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore diseases. And his…
- Isaiah 9:5 — For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
- Isaiah 64:11 — Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
- Jeremiah 51:25 — Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon thee, and roll thee…
- Amos 4:11 — I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me,…
See all 12 verses in the Word Atlas
Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.