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שָׂרַף

sa.raph

to burn

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Strong’s H8313Verb117 times in the Hebrew Bible

Where it occurs

Translated as

he burned20

you will burn12

they burned12

he will burn9

it will be burned7

they will burn7

people will burn4

he burned it3

In the text

Leviticus 4:21שָׂרַף
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.
Numbers 31:10שָׂרְפוּ
Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,
Deuteronomy 7:5תִּשְׂרְפוּן
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.
Joshua 6:24שָׂרְפוּ
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.
2 Kings 10:26וַיִּשְׂרְפוּהָ
They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.
Jeremiah 36:28שָׂרַף
“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.

Brown-Driver-Briggs

שָׂרַף 117 vb. burn

Qal burn

Niph. be burned

Pi. his burner, usu. one burning him, but prob. burning spices for him

Pu. it was burnt up (and gone).

Sources: Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906, public domain) from the Open Scriptures Hebrew Lexicon (CC BY 4.0), glosses from STEPBible TBESH (CC BY 4.0); STEPBible TAHOT (Hebrew Bible, Leningrad Codex, CC BY 4.0); the Berean Standard Bible (public domain). Reformatted by Word Study, wording unchanged. All sources and licenses.