Serpent
שָׂרָףStrong’s H8314saraph (sa-raph)
Appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Saraph is the Hebrew word usually translated “saraphs”, “saraph” and “fiery”. It appears in 7 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit the people; and much people of Israel died.”
Meaning
- Serpent, fiery serpentpoisonous serpent (fiery from burning effect of poison)
- Seraph, seraphim
How it's translated
- the saraphs 1
- a saraph 1
- fiery 1
- seraphim 1
- the seraphim 1
- a serpent 1
- and serpent 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Numbers 2
- Deuteronomy 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Numbers 21:8And the LORD said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live.
- Deuteronomy 8:15Who led thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where there was no water; who brought thee forth water out of the rock of flint;
- Isaiah 6:2Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings; with twain he covered his face, and with twain he covered his feet, and with twain he did fly.
- Isaiah 6:6Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar:
- Isaiah 14:29Rejoice not thou, whole Palestina, because the rod of him that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent’s root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent.
- Isaiah 30:6The burden of the beasts of the south: into the land of trouble and anguish, from whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon the shoulders of young asses, and their treasures upon the bunches of camels, to a people that shall not profit them.
Hebrew dictionary
שָׂרָף saraph · serpent
1) serpent, fiery serpent 1a) poisonous serpent (fiery from burning effect of poison)
שָׂרָף saraph · Seraph
Seraph, seraphim 1a) majestic beings with 6 wings, human hands or voices in attendance upon God
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “serpent” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
SER'PENT, noun
[Latin serpens, creeping; serpo, to creep.]
- An animal of the order of Serpentes, [creepers, crawlers, ] Of the class of Amphibia.
- In astronomy, a constellation of the northern hemisphere, containing, according to the British catalogue, sixty-four stars.
- An instrument of music, serving as a base to the cornet or small shawm, to sustain a chorus of singers in a large edifice.
- Figuratively, a subtil or malicious person.
All definitions
- In mythology, a symbol of the sun.
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.