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# שָׂרָף

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8314

**serpent** — used 7 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

serpent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8314/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שָׂרָף: n.m. fiery, serpent [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8314/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.m. Is 14:29 fiery, serpent, usually venomous (poss. from above √, from burning effect of poison);—abs. שׂ׳ Nu 21:8 (JE; on Arabic parallels v. JacobAr. Dichter ii. 93, iv. 10 f.), appos. נָחָשׁ שׂ׳ Dt 8:15, pl. הַנְּחָשִׁים הַשְּׂרָפִים Nu 21:6; a flying serpent, or dragon, שָׂרָף מְעוֹפֵף Is 14:29; 30:6.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 5 of its verses cited, 2 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (4 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (4 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: seraphim (2); \[will be\] a serpent (1); a saraph (1).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 6:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.6.6/#tree)

וַיָּ֣עָף אֵלַ֗י אֶחָד֙ מִן־הַשְּׂרָפִ֔ים וּבְיָד֖וֹ רִצְפָּ֑ה בְּמֶ֨לְקַחַ֔יִם לָקַ֖ח מֵעַ֥ל הַמִּזְבֵּֽחַ׃

*Word for word:* and he.flew to me one of the seraphim and.\[was\] in hand his a.live.coal \[which\].with tongs he.had.taken from on the altar

*JPS 1917:* Then flew unto me one of the seraphim, with a glowing stone in his hand, which he had taken with the tongs from off the altar;

[Isaiah 14:29](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.29/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.14.29/#tree)

אַֽל־תִּשְׂמְחִ֤י פְלֶ֙שֶׁת֙ כֻּלֵּ֔ךְ כִּ֥י נִשְׁבַּ֖ר שֵׁ֣בֶט מַכֵּ֑ךְ כִּֽי־מִשֹּׁ֤רֶשׁ נָחָשׁ֙ יֵ֣צֵא צֶ֔פַע וּפִרְי֖וֹ שָׂרָ֥ף מְעוֹפֵֽף׃

*Word for word:* do.not rejoice O.Philistia of.you all (dm).that it.has.been.broken the.rod of the.\[one.who\].struck.you (dm) from.\[the\] root of.a.snake it.will.go.forth a.viper and fruit its \[will.be\].a.serpent flying

*JPS 1917:* Rejoice not, O Philistia, all of thee, because the rod that smote thee is broken: for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a basilisk, and his fruit shall be a flying serpent.

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/8314.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8314/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).