סָרַףçâraph
burn
Pronunciation: saw-raf' · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H5635
Meanings
Qal: burn (Joshua 11:9; Isaiah 47:14; Numbers 19:5)
1. in making bricks (Genesis 11:3)
2.
a. with accusative of thing, usually to destroy (Judges 9:52; Judges 12:1; 1 Kings 16:18)
b. burn (Joshua 7:25; Judges 14:15; Judges 15:6)
Niph`al: be burned (Joshua 7:15; Proverbs 6:27; Jeremiah 38:17)
Pi`el: burning (Amos 6:10)
Pu`al: was burnt up (Leviticus 10:16)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 1 times in the Bible.
- Amos 6:10 And when a relative who is responsible to dispose of the dead goes into the house to carry out the bodies, he will ask the last survivor, “Is anyone else with you?” When the person begins to swear, “No, by . . . ,” he will interrupt and say, “Stop! Don’t even mention the name of the Lord.”)
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).