שְׂרֵפָה
burning
Full lexicon entry — Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (BDB)
Where this word appears
Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Feminine
- Grammatically feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Every verse where H8316 appears in the Book of Leviticus — 1 distinct verse. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Leviticus
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun שרפה centers on the idea of “burning.” First canonically at Genesis 11:3, it enters the text early. It turns up in 12 verses across 8 books, an uncommon footprint. The word gravitates to Numbers (25%), then 2 Chronicles and Isaiah. It clusters with שרף, משרפה and רשף under a shared root. Dig into 12-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H8316 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 12
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 12 distinct verses.
- 8 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 8 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #2,001
- by frequency
- Top 2500 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 2,001 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 12 occurrences in the concordance →
Most concentrated in
- Numbers 3 verses 25%
- 2 Chronicles 2 verses 17%
- Isaiah 2 verses 17%
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 12 distinct verses.
- Torah (Pentateuch) 6 verses · 50%
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 4 verses · 33%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 2 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Burning 7×
- American Standard Version: Burning 7×
- Berean Standard Bible: Burned 2×, Fire 2×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Burning 7×, Burning of 2×, Fire 2×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H8316 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H8316 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 6 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H8316 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 9 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H8316 across 13 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 2 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in BDB
The 1 sense BDB distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency or importance). The full entry — with sub-senses — is in the Lexicon Entry tab.
- burning
Word origin
n.f. burning;—abs. שׂ׳ Is 9:4 +, cstr. שְׂרֵפַת Nu 19:6 +;—לשׂ׳ of brick-burning Gn 11:3 (+ שָׂרַף); destructive Am 4:11; Is 9:4, of land Dt 29:22, of temple, הָיָה לִשְׂרֵפַת אֵשׁ Is 64:10, הַר שׂ׳ Je 51:25 i.e. a burnt-out volcano (fig. of Bab.); of heifer Nu 19:6, cf. v 17; of spices (prob.) as funeral rite 2 Ch 16:14 (as acc. cogn.), 21:19 (obj. of עָשָׂה), v 19; of pers. (penal) Lv 10:6 (acc. cogn., י׳ subj.), Nu 17:2.
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Derived from שרף (sâraph) (H8313) — to burn.
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
שְׂרֵפָה
- burning, fire. Snh. VII, 1 ארבע מיתות … ש׳ וכ׳ four modes of capital punishment …, stoning, burning &c. (expl. ib. 2). Ib. 52ᵃ שְׂרֵיפַת נשמה, v. נְשָׁמָה. Ib. ש׳ ממש execution by fire in its real sense. Ab. Zar. I, 3 כל מיתה שיש בה ש׳ וכ׳ the anniversary of an idolater’s death with which burning (of garments &c.) was connected (at the time of burial) is considered an idolatrous festival. Num. R. s. 11, v. קָלוֹן II. R. Hash. 18ᵇ שקולה … כשריפת בית וכ׳ the death of the righteous is equal to the burning of the Temple; a. fr.—[Y. Sabb. XIV, 14ᶜ bot. שריפה, v. שְׂרִיפָה.]—Pl. שְׂרֵיפוֹת. Pes. 75ᵃ (ref. to Lev. XXI, 9) תשרף לרבות כל ש׳ הבאות וכ׳ ‘shall be burned’, this includes all burnings which are the result of fire (e.g. death through molten lead). Lev. R. s. 16 בוא וראה כמה ש׳ הוא שורף come and see how many fires it (the tongue) kindles (how much destruction it causes); a. e. e.g. Leviticus 21:9
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 11 distinct written forms H8316 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
| Form | Parsing | Example | Uses |
|---|---|---|---|
| הַ/שְּׂרֵפָ֔ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Leviticus 10:6 | 2 |
| שְׂרֵפָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | 2 Chronicles 16:14 | 2 |
| כִּ/שְׂרֵפַ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | 2 Chronicles 21:19 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׂרֵ֣פַת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Isaiah 64:11 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׂרֵפָ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Genesis 11:3 | 1 |
| לִ/שְׂרֵפָ֖ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Isaiah 9:5 | 1 |
| מִ/שְׂרֵפָ֑ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Amos 4:11 | 1 |
| שְׂרֵפַ֣ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Numbers 19:17 | 1 |
| שְׂרֵפַ֥ת | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Construct | Numbers 19:6 | 1 |
| שְׂרֵפָ֣ה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Deuteronomy 29:23 | 1 |
| שְׂרֵפָֽה | Noun, Common, Feminine, Singular, Absolute | Jeremiah 51:25 | 1 |
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H8316, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derives from
Shares the same root
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 5 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 11 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 12 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 11:3
- Leviticus 10:6
- Numbers 19:6
- Deuteronomy 29:23
- 2 Chronicles 16:14
- Isaiah 9:5
- Jeremiah 51:25
- Amos 4:11
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
