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# שְׂרֵפָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H8316

**burning** — used 13 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

burning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8316/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שְׂרֵפָה: n.f. burning [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8316/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. burning;—abs. שׂ׳ Is 9:4 +, cstr. שְׂרֵפַת Nu 19:6 +;—לשׂ׳ of brick-burning Gn 11:3 (+ שָׂרַף); destructive Am 4:11; Is 9:4, of land Dt 29:22, of temple, הָיָה לִשְׂרֵפַת אֵשׁ Is 64:10, הַר שׂ׳ Je 51:25 i.e. a burnt-out volcano (fig. of Bab.); of heifer Nu 19:6, cf. v 17; of spices (prob.) as funeral rite 2 Ch 16:14 (as acc. cogn.), 21:19 (obj. of עָשָׂה), v 19; of pers. (penal) Lv 10:6 (acc. cogn., י׳ subj.), Nu 17:2.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 12 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: burning (6); a burning (3); of the burning (2).

## In the verses

[Isaiah 9:4](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.4/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/ISA.9.4/#tree)

כִּ֤י כָל־סְאוֹן֙ סֹאֵ֣ן בְּרַ֔עַשׁ וְשִׂמְלָ֖ה מְגוֹלָלָ֣ה בְדָמִ֑ים וְהָיְתָ֥ה לִשְׂרֵפָ֖ה מַאֲכֹ֥לֶת אֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* (dm) every boot \[which\].marches with shaking and cloak rolled in blood(s) and it.will.be for burning fuel of.a.fire

*JPS 1917:* For every boot stamped with fierceness, and every cloak rolled in blood, shall even be for burning, for fuel of fire.

[Numbers 19:6](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.19.6/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/torah/NUM.19.6/#tree)

וְלָקַ֣ח הַכֹּהֵ֗ן עֵ֥ץ אֶ֛רֶז וְאֵז֖וֹב וּשְׁנִ֣י תוֹלָ֑עַת וְהִשְׁלִ֕יךְ אֶל־תּ֖וֹךְ שְׂרֵפַ֥ת הַפָּרָֽה׃

*Word for word:* and he.will.take the priest wood of.cedar and hyssop and scarlet of.scarlet.stuff and he.will.throw.\[them\] into the.middle of.the.burning of the.heifer

*JPS 1917:* And the priest shall take cedar-wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/8316/): 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).