Hebrew word · H8315

שָׂרָף

vesaraf

Saraph

Appears once in the Hebrew Old Testament.

What it means

A man of the tribe of Judah living at the time of Egypt and Wilderness, only mentioned at 1Ch.4.22;

son of: Shelah (H7956);

brother of: Er (H6147H), Laadah (H3935), Jokim (H3137) and Joash (H3101K)

§ Saraph = "to burn"

a Judaite, son of Shelah who ruled in Moab

Abridged from Brown, Driver and Briggs, A Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), via STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0).

Where it appears

1 Chronicles · 1

  1. 1 Chronicles 4:22 וְשָׂרָ֛ף and Saraph

    Jokim, the men of Cozeba, and Joash and Saraph, who ruled in Moab and Jashubi-lehem. (These names are from ancient records.)

    Here: A personal name from the root 'to burn', the same word as 'seraph' (the burning serpents of Num 21:6 and the seraphim of Isa 6). It is known only from this verse.

Word data: STEPBible.org (CC BY 4.0), main text only.