serefa · burning

What it means

serefa (שְׂרֵפָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “burning”.

Fire.

How to say it

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

1. Fire that consumes something completely; also the burning made for a dead king.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• burning ×10
• burned ×1
• fire ×1
• thoroughly ×1

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Genesis×1
• Leviticus×1
• Numbers×3
• Deuteronomy×1
• 2 Chronicles×3
• Isaiah×2
• Jeremiah×1
• Amos×1

• Genesis 11:3

  They said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and burn them thoroughly.” And brick served them as stone, and bitumen served them as mortar.

• Leviticus 10:6

  Moses said to Aaron and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, “Do not let the hair of your heads hang loose and do not tear your garments, so that you do not die and he does not become angry with all the community; but your brothers, all the house of Israel, shall weep over the burning that YHWH has kindled.

• Numbers 16:37

  “Tell Eleazar son of Aaron the priest to take up the censers from among the burning, and scatter the fire far away, for they have become holy,

• Numbers 19:6

  And the priest shall take cedar wood and hyssop and scarlet yarn and throw them into the midst of the burning of the cow.

• Numbers 19:17

  And for the unclean person they shall take some of the dust of the burning of the sin offering, and one shall put living water on it in a vessel.

• Deuteronomy 29:23

  —all its land brimstone and salt, a burning; it will not be sown, and it will not sprout, and no plant will come up in it, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which YHWH overthrew in his anger and in his wrath—

• 2 Chronicles 16:14

  They buried him in his tombs that he had dug for himself in the city of David, and they laid him on the bed that they had filled with spices and perfumes of various kinds blended as a perfumer’s work; and they made for him a very great burning.

• 2 Chronicles 21:19

  And it happened, as days passed, and at the time of the coming of the end of two years, his bowels came out with his disease, and he died in evil ailments. His people did not make for him a burning like the burning of his fathers.

• Isaiah 9:5

  For every boot of the one tramping in tumult, and the cloak rolled in blood, will be for burning, fuel for the fire.

• Isaiah 64:11

  The house of our holiness and of our beauty, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our desirable things have become a ruin.

• Jeremiah 51:25

  Look, I am against you, destroying mountain, declares YHWH, which destroys all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand against you, and roll you down from the crags, and make you a mountain of burning.

• Amos 4:11

  I overthrew some among you as when Elohim overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a burning stick snatched from the fire; yet you did not return to me, declares YHWH.

And 1 more times.