שָׂרָף
saraf · fiery serpent, seraph
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H8314 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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saraf (שָׂרָף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “fiery serpent, seraph”.
Fiery: a serpent whose bite burns; it comes from the root "burn." In Isaiah 6 the same word names the seraphim.
How to say it
sa·raf
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Beings of fire who stand before God's throne.
- A snake whose venomous bite burns.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- fiery serpent ×3
- Seraphim ×2
- burning ×1
- fiery ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Numbers 21:6
Then YHWH sent among the people the fiery serpents, and they bit the people, and many people of Israel died.
- Numbers 21:8
And YHWH said to Moses, “Make for yourself a fiery serpent and set it on a pole; and everyone who is bitten, when he sees it, shall live.”
- Deuteronomy 8:15
who led you through the great and fearsome wilderness, with burning serpent and scorpion, and parched ground where there was no water, who brought out for you water from the rock of flint,
- Isaiah 6:2
Seraphim were standing above him; six wings, six wings to each one; with two he covered his face, and with two he covered his feet, and with two he flew.
- Isaiah 6:6
Then one of the seraphim flew to me, and in his hand was a burning coal that he had taken with tongs from on the altar.
- Isaiah 14:29
Do not rejoice, Philistia, all of you, because the rod that struck you is broken; for from the root of the serpent will come out a cobra, and its fruit will be a flying fiery serpent.
- Isaiah 30:6
The burden of the beasts of the Negev. Through a land of distress and anguish, where the lioness and the lion are among them, the viper and the flying fiery serpent, they carry on the backs of young donkeys their riches, and on the humps of camels their treasures, to a people that does not profit.