שְׂרֵפָה
sᵉrêphâh
Meaning
“burning”
BDB burning
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8 books · rare
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First appears: Genesis 11:3
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שְׂרֵפָה
8 books
Genesis 11:3
לִ/שְׂרֵפָ֑ה
They said one to another, "Come, let's make brick, and burn them thoroughly." They had brick for stone, and they used tar for mortar.
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Leviticus 10:6
הַ/שְּׂרֵפָ֔ה
Moses said to Aaron, and to Eleazar and to Ithamar, his sons, "Don't let the hair of your heads go loose, neither tear your clothes; that you don't die, and that he not be angry with all the congregation: but let your brothers, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which Yahweh has kindled.
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Numbers 16:37
הַ/שְּׂרֵפָ֔ה
Speak to Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter you the fire yonder; for they are holy,
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Deuteronomy 29:23
שְׂרֵפָ֣ה
[and that] the whole land of it is sulfur, and salt, [and] a burning, [that] it is not sown, nor bears, nor any grass grows therein, like the overthrow of Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which Yahweh overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
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2 Chronicles 16:14
שְׂרֵפָ֖ה
They buried him in his own tombs, which he had hewn out for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odors and various kinds [of spices] prepared by the perfumers' are: and they made a very great burning for him.
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Isaiah 9:5
לִ/שְׂרֵפָ֖ה
For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
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Jeremiah 51:25
שְׂרֵפָֽה
Behold, I am against you, destroying mountain, says Yahweh, which destroy all the earth; and I will stretch out my hand on you, and roll you down from the rocks, and will make you a burnt mountain.
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Amos 4:11
מִ/שְׂרֵפָ֑ה
"I have overthrown some of you, As when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, And you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire; Yet you haven't returned to me," says Yahweh.
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