שָׂרַף

Genesis 11:3 וְנִשְׂרְפָ֖ה and let us burn [them]

And they said to one another, “Come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.” So they used brick instead of stone, and tar instead of mortar.

Genesis 38:24 וְתִשָּׂרֵֽף׃ so she may be burned

About three months later, Judah was told, “Your daughter-in-law Tamar has prostituted herself, and now she is pregnant.” “Bring her out!” Judah replied. “Let her be burned to death!”

Exodus 12:10 תִּשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃ you will burn

Do not leave any of it until morning; before the morning you must burn up any part that is left over.

Exodus 29:14 תִּשְׂרֹ֣ף you will burn

But burn the flesh of the bull and its hide and dung outside the camp; it is a sin offering.

Exodus 29:34 וְשָׂרַפְתָּ֤ and you will burn

And if any of the meat of ordination or any bread is left until the morning, you are to burn up the remainder. It must not be eaten, because it is sacred.

Exodus 32:20 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֣ף and he burned [it]

Then he took the calf they had made, burned it in the fire, ground it to powder, and scattered the powder over the face of the water. Then he forced the Israelites to drink it.

Leviticus 4:12 וְשָׂרַ֥ף יִשָּׂרֵֽף׃ פ and he will burn, it will be burned

all the rest of the bull—he must take outside the camp to a ceremonially clean place where the ashes are poured out, and there he must burn it on a wood fire on the ash heap.

Leviticus 4:21 וְשָׂרַ֣ף שָׂרַ֔ף and he will burn, he burned

Then he is to take the bull outside the camp and burn it, just as he burned the first bull. It is the sin offering for the assembly.

Leviticus 6:30 תִּשָּׂרֵֽף׃ פ it will be burned

But no sin offering may be eaten if its blood has been brought into the Tent of Meeting to make atonement in the Holy Place; it must be burned.

Leviticus 7:17 יִשָּׂרֵֽף׃ it will be burned

But any meat of the sacrifice remaining until the third day must be burned up.

Leviticus 7:19 יִשָּׂרֵ֑ף it will be burned

Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.

Leviticus 8:17 שָׂרַ֣ף he burned

But the bull with its hide, flesh, and dung he burned outside the camp, as the LORD had commanded him.

Leviticus 8:32 תִּשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃ you will burn

Then you must burn up the remainder of the meat and bread.

Leviticus 9:11 שָׂרַ֣ף he burned

But he burned up the flesh and the hide outside the camp.

Leviticus 10:6 שָׂרַ֥ף he has burned

Then Moses said to Aaron and his sons Eleazar and Ithamar, “Do not let your hair become disheveled and do not tear your garments, or else you will die, and the LORD will be angry with the whole congregation. But your brothers, the whole house of Israel, may mourn on account of the fire that the LORD has ignited.

Leviticus 10:16 שֹׂרָ֑ף it had been burned

Later, Moses searched carefully for the goat of the sin offering, and behold, it had been burned up. He was angry with Eleazar and Ithamar, Aaron’s remaining sons, and asked,

Leviticus 13:52 וְשָׂרַ֨ף תִּשָּׂרֵֽף׃ and he will burn, it will be burned

He is to burn the fabric, weave, or knit, whether the contaminated item is wool or linen or leather. Since the mildew is harmful, the article must be burned up.

Leviticus 13:55 תִּשְׂרְפֶ֑נּוּ you will burn it

After it has been washed, the priest is to reexamine it, and if the mildewed article has not changed in appearance, it is unclean. Even though the mildew has not spread, you must burn it, whether the rot is on the front or back.

Leviticus 13:57 תִּשְׂרְפֶ֔נּוּ you will burn it

But if it reappears in the fabric, weave, or knit, or on any leather article, it is spreading. You must burn the contaminated article.

Leviticus 16:27 וְשָׂרְפ֣וּ and people will burn

The bull for the sin offering and the goat for the sin offering, whose blood was brought into the Most Holy Place to make atonement, must be taken outside the camp; and their hides, flesh, and dung must be burned up.

Leviticus 16:28 וְהַשֹּׂרֵ֣ף and the [one who] burns

The one who burns them must wash his clothes and bathe himself with water, and afterward he may reenter the camp.

Leviticus 19:6 יִשָּׂרֵֽף׃ it will be burned

It shall be eaten on the day you sacrifice it, or on the next day; but what remains on the third day must be burned up.

Leviticus 20:14 יִשְׂרְפ֤וּ people will burn

If a man marries both a woman and her mother, it is depraved. Both he and they must be burned in the fire, so that there will be no depravity among you.

Leviticus 21:9 תִּשָּׂרֵֽף׃ ס she will be burned

If a priest’s daughter defiles herself by prostituting herself, she profanes her father; she must be burned in the fire.

Numbers 16:39 הַשְּׂרֻפִ֑ים the [ones who] were burned

So Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers brought by those who had been burned up, and he had them hammered out to overlay the altar,

Numbers 19:5 וְשָׂרַ֥ף יִשְׂרֹֽף׃ and he will burn, he will burn

Then the heifer must be burned in his sight. Its hide, its flesh, and its blood are to be burned, along with its dung.

Numbers 19:8 וְהַשֹּׂרֵ֣ף and the [one who] burns

The one who burned the heifer must also wash his clothes and bathe his body in water, and he too will be ceremonially unclean until evening.

Numbers 31:10 שָׂרְפ֖וּ they burned

Then they burned all the cities where the Midianites had lived, as well as all their encampments,

Deuteronomy 7:5 תִּשְׂרְפ֥וּן you will burn !

Instead, this is what you are to do to them: tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, cut down their Asherah poles, and burn their idols in the fire.

Deuteronomy 7:25 תִּשְׂרְפ֣וּן you will burn !

You must burn up the images of their gods; do not covet the silver and gold that is on them or take it for yourselves, or you will be ensnared by it; for it is detestable to the LORD your God.

Deuteronomy 9:21 וָאֶשְׂרֹ֣ף and I burned

And I took that sinful thing, the calf you had made, and burned it in the fire. Then I crushed it and ground it to powder as fine as dust, and I cast it into the stream that came down from the mountain.

Deuteronomy 12:3 תִּשְׂרְפ֣וּן you will burn !

Tear down their altars, smash their sacred pillars, burn up their Asherah poles, cut down the idols of their gods, and wipe out their names from every place.

Deuteronomy 12:31 יִשְׂרְפ֥וּ they burn

You must not worship the LORD your God in this way, because they practice for their gods every abomination which the LORD hates. They even burn their sons and daughters in the fire as sacrifices to their gods.

Deuteronomy 13:16 וְשָׂרַפְתָּ֨ and you will burn

And you are to gather all its plunder in the middle of the public square, and completely burn the city and all its plunder as a whole burnt offering to the LORD your God. The city must remain a mound of ruins forever, never to be rebuilt.

Joshua 6:24 שָׂרְפ֥וּ they burned

Then the Israelites burned up the city and everything in it. However, they put the silver and gold and articles of bronze and iron into the treasury of the LORD’s house.

Joshua 7:15 יִשָּׂרֵ֣ף he will be burned

The one who is caught with the things devoted to destruction must be burned, along with all that belongs to him, because he has transgressed the covenant of the LORD and committed an outrage in Israel.’”

Joshua 7:25 וַיִּשְׂרְפ֤וּ and they burned

“Why have you brought this trouble upon us?” said Joshua. “Today the LORD will bring trouble upon you!” And all Israel stoned him to death. Then they stoned the others and burned their bodies.

Joshua 8:28 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף and he burned

So Joshua burned Ai and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolation to this day.

Joshua 11:6 תִּשְׂרֹ֥ף you will burn

Then the LORD said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid of them, for by this time tomorrow I will deliver all of them slain before Israel. You are to hamstring their horses and burn up their chariots.”

Joshua 11:9 שָׂרַ֥ף he burned

Joshua treated them as the LORD had told him; he hamstrung their horses and burned up their chariots.

Joshua 11:11 שָׂרַ֥ף he burned

The Israelites put everyone in Hazor to the sword, devoting them to destruction. Nothing that breathed remained, and Joshua burned down Hazor itself.

Joshua 11:13 שְׂרָפָ֖ם שָׂרַ֥ף it burned them, he burned

Yet Israel did not burn any of the cities built on their mounds, except Hazor, which Joshua burned.

Judges 9:52 לְשָׂרְפ֥וֹ to burn it

When Abimelech came to attack the tower, he approached its entrance to set it on fire.

Judges 12:1 נִשְׂרֹ֥ף we will burn

Then the men of Ephraim assembled and crossed the Jordan to Zaphon. They said to Jephthah, “Why have you crossed over to fight the Ammonites without calling us to go with you? We will burn your house down with you inside!”

Judges 14:15 נִשְׂרֹ֥ף we should burn

So on the fourth day they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband to explain the riddle to us, or we will burn you and your father’s household to death. Did you invite us here to rob us?”

Judges 15:6 וַיִּשְׂרְפ֥וּ and they burned

“Who did this?” the Philistines demanded. “It was Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite,” they were told. “For his wife was given to his companion.” So the Philistines went up and burned her and her father to death.

Judges 18:27 שָׂרְפ֥וּ they burned

After they had taken Micah’s idols and his priest, they went to Laish, to a quiet and unsuspecting people, and they struck them with their swords and burned down the city.

1 Samuel 30:1 וַיִּשְׂרְפ֥וּ and they had burned

On the third day David and his men arrived in Ziklag, and the Amalekites had raided the Negev, attacked Ziklag, and burned it down.

1 Samuel 30:3 שְׂרוּפָ֖ה [it was] burned

When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.

1 Samuel 30:14 שָׂרַ֥פְנוּ we had burned

We raided the Negev of the Cherethites, the territory of Judah, and the Negev of Caleb, and we burned down Ziklag.”

1 Samuel 31:12 וַיִּשְׂרְפ֥וּ and they burned

all their men of valor set out, journeyed all night, and retrieved the bodies of Saul and his sons from the wall of Beth-shan. When they arrived at Jabesh, they burned the bodies there.

2 Samuel 23:7 שָׂר֥וֹף יִשָּׂרְפ֖וּ certainly <to burn>, they will be burned

The man who touches them must be armed with iron or with the shaft of a spear. The fire burns them to ashes in the place where they lie.”

1 Kings 9:16 וַיִּשְׂרְפָ֣הּ and he had burned it

Pharaoh king of Egypt had attacked and captured Gezer. He had set it on fire, killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.

1 Kings 13:2 יִשְׂרְפ֥וּ people will burn

And he cried out against the altar by the word of the LORD, “O altar, O altar, this is what the LORD says: ‘A son named Josiah will be born to the house of David, and upon you he will sacrifice the priests of the high places who burn incense upon you, and human bones will be burned upon you.’”

1 Kings 15:13 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֖ף and he burned [it]

He also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

1 Kings 16:18 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֨ף and he burned

When Zimri saw that the city was captured, he entered the citadel of the royal palace and burned it down upon himself. So he died

2 Kings 10:26 וַֽיִּשְׂרְפֽוּהָ׃ and they burned it

They brought out the sacred pillar of the temple of Baal and burned it.

2 Kings 17:31 שֹׂרְפִ֤ים [were] burning

the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak, and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech the gods of Sepharvaim.

2 Kings 23:4 וַֽיִּשְׂרְפֵ֞ם and he burned them

Then the king commanded Hilkiah the high priest, the priests second in rank, and the doorkeepers to remove from the temple of the LORD all the articles made for Baal, Asherah, and all the host of heaven. And he burned them outside Jerusalem in the fields of Kidron and carried their ashes to Bethel.

2 Kings 23:6 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף and he burned

He brought the Asherah pole from the house of the LORD to the Kidron Valley outside Jerusalem, and there he burned it, ground it to powder, and threw its dust on the graves of the common people.

2 Kings 23:11 שָׂרַ֥ף he burned

And he removed from the entrance to the house of the LORD the horses that the kings of Judah had dedicated to the sun. They were in the court near the chamber of an official named Nathan-melech. And Josiah burned up the chariots of the sun.

2 Kings 23:15 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֧ף וְשָׂרַ֥ף and he burned

He even pulled down the altar at Bethel, the high place set up by Jeroboam son of Nebat, who had caused Israel to sin. Then he burned the high place, ground it to powder, and burned the Asherah pole.

2 Kings 23:16 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף and he burned [them]

And as Josiah turned, he saw the tombs there on the hillside, and he sent someone to take the bones out of the tombs, and he burned them on the altar to defile it, according to the word of the LORD proclaimed by the man of God who had foretold these things.

2 Kings 23:20 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֛ף and he burned

On the altars he slaughtered all the priests of the high places, and he burned human bones on them. Then he returned to Jerusalem.

2 Kings 25:9 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף שָׂרַ֥ף and he burned, he burned

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

1 Chronicles 14:12 וַיִּשָּׂרְפ֖וּ and they were burned

There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.

2 Chronicles 15:16 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֖ף and he burned [it]

King Asa also removed his grandmother Maacah from her position as queen mother because she had made a detestable Asherah pole. Asa chopped down the pole, crushed it, and burned it in the Kidron Valley.

2 Chronicles 16:14 וַיִּשְׂרְפוּ־ and they burned

And he was buried in the tomb that he had cut out for himself in the City of David. They laid him on a bier that was full of spices and various blended perfumes; then they made a great fire in his honor.

2 Chronicles 34:5 שָׂרַ֖ף he burned

Then he burned the bones of the priests on their altars. So he cleansed Judah and Jerusalem.

2 Chronicles 36:19 וַֽיִּשְׂרְפוּ֙ שָׂרְפ֣וּ and they burned, they burned

Then the Chaldeans set fire to the house of God and broke down the wall of Jerusalem. They burned down all the palaces and destroyed every article of value.

Nehemiah 4:2 שְׂרוּפֽוֹת׃ [are] burned

before his associates and the army of Samaria, saying, “What are these feeble Jews doing? Can they restore the wall by themselves? Will they offer sacrifices? Will they complete it in a day? Can they bring these burnt stones back to life from the mounds of rubble?”

Psalm 46:9 יִשְׂרֹ֥ף he burns

He makes wars to cease throughout the earth; He breaks the bow and shatters the spear; He burns the shields in the fire.

Psalm 74:8 שָׂרְפ֖וּ they burned

They said in their hearts, “We will crush them completely.” They burned down every place where God met us in the land.

Psalm 80:16 שְׂרֻפָ֣ה [it is] burned

Your vine has been cut down and burned; they perish at the rebuke of Your countenance.

Proverbs 6:27 תִשָּׂרַֽפְנָה׃ will they be burned?

Can a man embrace fire and his clothes not be burned?

Isaiah 1:7 שְׂרֻפ֣וֹת [have been] burned

Your land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.

Isaiah 44:16 שָׂרַ֣ף he burns

He burns half of it in the fire, and he roasts meat on that half. He eats the roast and is satisfied. Indeed, he warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”

Isaiah 44:19 שָׂרַ֣פְתִּי I burned

And no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”

Isaiah 47:14 שְׂרָפָ֔תַם it has burned them

Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.

Jeremiah 7:31 לִשְׂרֹ֛ף to burn

They have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.

Jeremiah 19:5 לִשְׂרֹ֧ף to burn

They have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.

Jeremiah 21:10 וּשְׂרָפָ֖הּ and he will burn it

For I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’

Jeremiah 32:29 וּשְׂרָפ֑וּהָ and they will burn it

And the Chaldeans who are fighting against this city will come in, set it on fire, and burn it, along with the houses of those who provoked Me to anger by burning incense to Baal on their rooftops and by pouring out drink offerings to other gods.

Jeremiah 34:2 וּשְׂרָפָ֖הּ and he will burn it

The LORD, the God of Israel, told Jeremiah to go and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah and tell him that this is what the LORD says: “Behold, I am about to deliver this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he will burn it down.

Jeremiah 34:5 יִשְׂרְפוּ־ people will burn

you will die in peace. As spices were burned for your fathers, the former kings who preceded you, so people will burn spices for you and lament, ‘Alas, O master!’ For I Myself have spoken this word, declares the LORD.”

Jeremiah 34:22 וּשְׂרָפֻ֣הָ and they will burn it

Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 36:25 שְׂרֹ֖ף to burn

Even though Elnathan, Delaiah, and Gemariah urged the king not to burn the scroll, he would not listen to them.

Jeremiah 36:27 שְׂרֹ֣ף burned

After the king had burned the scroll containing the words that Baruch had written at Jeremiah’s dictation, the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah:

Jeremiah 36:28 שָׂרַ֖ף he burned

“Take another scroll and rewrite on it the very words that were on the original scroll, which Jehoiakim king of Judah has burned.

Jeremiah 36:29 שָׂרַ֜פְתָּ you burned

You are to proclaim concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah that this is what the LORD says: You have burned the scroll and said, ‘Why have you written on it that the king of Babylon would surely come and destroy this land and deprive it of man and beast?’

Jeremiah 36:32 שָׂרַ֛ף he had burned

Then Jeremiah took another scroll and gave it to the scribe Baruch son of Neriah, and at Jeremiah’s dictation he wrote on it all the words of the scroll that Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire. And many similar words were added to them.

Jeremiah 37:8 וּשְׂרָפֻ֥הָ and they will burn it

Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.

Jeremiah 37:10 וְשָֽׂרְפ֛וּ and they will burn

Indeed, if you were to strike down the entire army of the Chaldeans that is fighting against you, and only wounded men remained in their tents, they would still get up and burn this city down.”

Jeremiah 38:17 תִשָּׂרֵ֖ף it will be burned

Then Jeremiah said to Zedekiah, “This is what the LORD God of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: ‘If you indeed surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then you will live, this city will not be burned down, and you and your household will survive.

Jeremiah 38:18 וּשְׂרָפ֖וּהָ and they will burn it

But if you do not surrender to the officers of the king of Babylon, then this city will be delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans. They will burn it down, and you yourself will not escape their grasp.’”

Jeremiah 38:23 תִּשְׂרֹ֥ף it will burn

All your wives and children will be brought out to the Chaldeans. And you yourself will not escape their grasp, for you will be seized by the king of Babylon, and this city will be burned down.”

Jeremiah 39:8 שָׂרְפ֥וּ they burned

The Chaldeans set fire to the palace of the king and to the houses of the people, and they broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 43:12 וּשְׂרָפָ֖ם and he will burn them

I will kindle a fire in the temples of the gods of Egypt, and Nebuchadnezzar will burn those temples and take their gods as captives. So he will wrap himself with the land of Egypt as a shepherd wraps himself in his garment, and he will depart from there unscathed.

Jeremiah 43:13 יִשְׂרֹ֥ף he will burn

He will demolish the sacred pillars of the temple of the sun in the land of Egypt, and he will burn down the temples of the gods of Egypt.’”

Jeremiah 51:32 שָׂרְפ֣וּ they have burned

The fords have been seized, the marshes set on fire, and the soldiers are terrified.”

Jeremiah 52:13 וַיִּשְׂרֹ֥ף שָׂרַ֥ף and he burned, he burned

He burned down the house of the LORD, the royal palace, and all the houses of Jerusalem—every significant building.

Ezekiel 5:4 וְשָׂרַפְתָּ֥ and you will burn

Again, take a few of these, throw them into the fire, and burn them. From there a fire will spread to the whole house of Israel.

Ezekiel 16:41 וְשָׂרְפ֤וּ and they will burn

Then they will burn down your houses and execute judgment against you in the sight of many women. I will put an end to your prostitution, and you will never again pay your lovers.

Ezekiel 23:47 יִשְׂרֹֽפוּ׃ they will burn

The mob will stone them and cut them down with their swords. They will kill their sons and daughters and burn down their houses.

Ezekiel 43:21 וּשְׂרָפוֹ֙ and someone will burn it

Then you are to take away the bull for the sin offering and burn it in the appointed part of the temple area outside the sanctuary.

Amos 2:1 שָׂרְפ֛וֹ burned he

This is what the LORD says: “For three transgressions of Moab, even four, I will not revoke My judgment, because he burned to lime the bones of Edom’s king.

Micah 1:7 יִשָּׂרְפ֣וּ they will be burned

All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.