serephah (fire) · Rightly

Meaning

Burning

How it's translated

the burning 2
burning of 2
a burning 2
to burning 1
a burning waste 1
like burning of 1
for burning 1
a burning of 1

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

Where it's used most

Numbers 3
2 Chronicles 2
Isaiah 2
Genesis 1
Leviticus 1
Deuteronomy 1

8 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture

Leviticus 10:6And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and lest wrath come upon all the people: but let your brethren, the whole house of Israel, bewail the burning which the LORD hath kindled.
Numbers 16:37Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they are hallowed.
Numbers 19:6And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
Numbers 19:17And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto in a vessel:
Deuteronomy 29:23And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like the overthrow of Sodom, and Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboim, which the LORD overthrew in his anger, and in his wrath:
2 Chronicles 16:14And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled with sweet odours and divers kinds of spices prepared by the apothecaries’ art: and they made a very great burning for him.

All 12 verses, by book

Genesis 1: 11:3
Leviticus 1: 10:6
Numbers 3: 16:37 19:6 19:17
Deuteronomy 1: 29:23
2 Chronicles 2: 16:14 21:19
Isaiah 2: 9:5 64:11
Jeremiah 1: 51:25
Amos 1: 4:11

Hebrew dictionary

שְׂרֵפָה serephah · fire

burning

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

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

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

FIRE, noun

[The radical sense of fire is usually, to rush, to rage, to be violently agitated; and if this is the sense of fire in coincides with Latin furo. It may be from shining or consuming.]

Heat and light emanating visibly, perceptibly and simultaneously from any body; caloric; the unknown cause of the sensation of heat and of the retrocession of the homogeneous particles of bodies from one another, producing expansion, and thus enlarging all their dimensions; one of the causes of magnetism, as evinced by Dr.
The burning of fuel on a hearth, or in any other place.
The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
Light; luster; splendor.

All definitions and other forms of “fire”

Torture by burning.
The instrument of punishment; or the punishment of the impenitent in another state.“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?” Isaiah 33:14
That which inflames or irritates the passions.
Ardor of temper; violence of passion.
Liveliness of imagination; vigor of fancy; intellectual activity; animation; force of sentiment or expression.
The passion of love; ardent affection.
Ardor; heat; as the fire of zeal or of love.
Combustion; tumult; rage; contention.
Trouble; affliction.“When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt” Isaiah 43:2

FIRE, verb transitive

To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
To inflame; to irritate the passions; as, to fire with anger or revenge.
To animate; to give life or spirit; as, to fire the genius.
To drive by fire [Little used.]
To cause to explode; to discharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon.
To cauterize; a term in farriery.

FIRE, verb intransitive

To take fire; to be kindled.
To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
To discharge artillery or firearms.

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