saraph (to burn) · Rightly

Meaning

(Pael) burnt

How it's translated

and he burned 12
he burned 11
you will burn 7
it will be burned 7
they burned 6
and they burned 5
burned 5
and he will burn 4

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

Where it's used most

Jeremiah 22
Leviticus 18
2 Kings 9
Joshua 8
Deuteronomy 6
Judges 5

21 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Genesis 38:24And it came to pass about three months after, that it was told Judah, saying, Tamar thy daughter in law hath played the harlot; and also, behold, she is with child by whoredom. And Judah said, Bring her forth, and let her be burnt.
Exodus 12:10And ye shall let nothing of it remain until the morning; and that which remaineth of it until the morning ye shall burn with fire.
Exodus 29:14But the flesh of the bullock, and his skin, and his dung, shalt thou burn with fire without the camp: it is a sin offering.
Exodus 29:34And if ought of the flesh of the consecrations, or of the bread, remain unto the morning, then thou shalt burn the remainder with fire: it shall not be eaten, because it is holy.
Exodus 32:20And he took the calf which they had made, and burnt it in the fire, and ground it to powder, and strawed it upon the water, and made the children of Israel drink of it.
Leviticus 4:12Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.

All 107 verses, by book

Genesis 2: 11:3 38:24
Exodus 4: 12:10 29:14 29:34 32:20
Leviticus 18: 4:12 4:21 6:30 7:17 7:19 8:17 8:32 9:11 10:6 10:16 13:52 13:55 13:57 16:27 16:28 19:6 20:14 21:9
Numbers 4: 16:39 19:5 19:8 31:10
Deuteronomy 6: 7:5 7:25 9:21 12:3 12:31 13:16
Joshua 8: 6:24 7:15 7:25 8:28 11:6 11:9 11:11 11:13
Judges 5: 9:52 12:1 14:15 15:6 18:27
1 Samuel 4: 30:1 30:3 30:14 31:12
2 Samuel 1: 23:7
1 Kings 4: 9:16 13:2 15:13 16:18
2 Kings 9: 10:26 17:31 23:4 23:6 23:11 23:15 23:16 23:20 25:9
1 Chronicles 1: 14:12
2 Chronicles 4: 15:16 16:14 34:5 36:19
Nehemiah 1: 4:2
Psalms 3: 46:9 74:8 80:16
Proverbs 1: 6:27
Isaiah 4: 1:7 44:16 44:19 47:14
Jeremiah 22: 7:31 19:5 21:10 32:29 34:2 34:5 34:22 36:25 36:27 36:28 36:29 36:32 37:8 37:10 38:17 38:18 38:23 39:8 43:12 43:13 51:32 52:13
Ezekiel 4: 5:4 16:41 23:47 43:21
Amos 1: 2:1
Micah 1: 1:7

Hebrew dictionary

סָרַף saraph · to burn

(Pael) burnt Another spelling of sa.raph (שָׂרַף "to burn" H8313)

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

BURN, verb transitive

preterit tense and participle passive burned or burnt. [Latin pruna, and perhaps, furnus, fornaz, a furnace. The primary sense is, to rage, to act with violent excitement.]

To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently with up; as, to burn up wood.
To expel the volatile parts and reduce to charcoal by fire; as, to burn wood into coal.
To cleanse of soot by burning; to inflame; as, to burn a chimney; an extensive use of the word.
To harden in the fire; to bake or harden by heat; as, to burn bricks or a brick kiln.

All definitions and other forms of “burn”

To scorch; to affect by heat; as, to burn the clothes or the legs by the fire; to burn meat or bread in cookery.
To injure by fire; to affect the flesh by heat.
To dry up or dissipate; with up; as, to burn up tears.
To dry excessively; to cause to wither by heat; as, the sun burns the grass or plants.
To heat or inflame; to affect with excessive stimulus; as, ardent spirits burn the stomach.
To affect with heat in cookery, so as to give the food a disagreeable taste.
To calcine with heat or fire; to expel the volatile matter from substances, so that they are easily pulverized; as, to burn oyster shells, or lime-stone.
To affect with excess of heat; as, the fever burns a patient.
To subject to the action of fire; to heat or dry; as, to burn colors.

BURN, verb intransitive

To be on fire; to flame; as, the mount burned with fire.

To shine; to sparkle.
To be inflamed with passion or desire; as, to burn with anger or love.
To act with destructive violence, as fire.
To be in commotion; to rage with destructive violence.
To be heated; to be in a glow; as, the face burns.
To be affected with a sensation of heat, pain or acidity; as, the heart burns.
To feel excess of heat; as, the flesh burns by a fire; a patient burns with a fever.

BURN, noun

A hurt or injury of the flesh caused by the action of fire.

The operation of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn

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