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Burning

מִשְׂרָפָהStrong’s H4955

misraphah (mis-ra-phah)

Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Misraphah is the Hebrew word usually translated “burnings of” and “like burnings of”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.

“And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.”
Isaiah 33:12 KJV
Meaning
  1. A burning
How it's translated
  • burnings of 1
  • and like burnings of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Isaiah 1
  • Jeremiah 1

2 books in all.

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Hebrew dictionary

מִשְׂרָפָה misraphah · burning

a burning

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “burning” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

BURN'ING, participle present

tense Consuming with fire; flaming; scorching; hardening by fire; calcining; charring; raging as fire; glowing.

    All definitions and other forms of “burning”

      BURN'ING, noun

      Combustion; the act of expelling volatile matter and reducing to ashes, or to a calx; a fire; inflammation; the heat or raging of passion. In surgery, actual cautery; cauterization.

        BURN'ING, adjective

        Powerful; vehement; as a burning shame; a burning scent.

        1. Much heated; very hot; scorching.

        Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

        Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.