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Lexicon :: Strong's H8314 - śārāp̄

Aa
שָׂרָף
Transliteration
śārāp̄
Pronunciation
saw-rawf'
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Part of Speech
masculine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 2292a,2292b

Strong’s Definitions

שָׂרָף sârâph, saw-rawf'; from H8313; burning, i.e. (figuratively) poisonous (serpent); specifically, a saraph or symbolical creature (from their copper color):—fiery (serpent), seraph.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x

The KJV translates Strong's H8314 in the following manner: fiery serpent (3x), fiery (2x), seraphim (2x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 7x
The KJV translates Strong's H8314 in the following manner: fiery serpent (3x), fiery (2x), seraphim (2x).

  1. serpent, fiery serpent

    1. poisonous serpent (fiery from burning effect of poison)

  2. seraph, seraphim

    1. majestic beings with 6 wings, human hands or voices in attendance upon God

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
שָׂרָף sârâph, saw-rawf'; from H8313; burning, i.e. (figuratively) poisonous (serpent); specifically, a saraph or symbolical creature (from their copper color):—fiery (serpent), seraph.
STRONGS H8314: Abbreviations
† I. שָׂרָף noun masculineIsaiah 14:29 a serpent, usually venomous (possibly from above √, from burning effect of poison); — absolute שׂ׳ Numbers 21:8 (J E; on Arabic parallels see JacobArabic Dichter ii. 93, iv. 10 f.), apposition נָחָשׁ שׂ׳ Deuteronomy 8:15, plural הַנְּחָשִׁים הַשְּׂרָפִים Numbers 21:6; a flying serpent, or dragon, שָׂרָף מְעוֺפֵף Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 30:6.

† II. [שָׂרָף] noun masculineIsaiah 6:2 plural שְׂרָפִים seraphim (probably akin to I. שׂ׳, as beings originally mythically conceived with serpents' bodies (serpent-deities, compare Isaiah 14:29; Isaiah 30:6), or (CheComm.) personified of lightning, compare arts. SERAPHIM, StrachanHast. DB CheEncy. Bib.; Di Marti and others compare also Egyptian guardian-griffins, called Šerref; see also כְּרוּב; on Assyrian Šarrapu (-bu), epithet of god Nergal, connected by DlWB with √ שָׂרַף, see שָׁרָב, ZimKAT 3. 415); — in OT. majestic beings with six wings, and human hands and voices, attendant upon י׳ Isaiah 6:2,6.
Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew and English Lexicon, Unabridged, Electronic Database.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Numbers

21:6; 21:8

Deuteronomy

8:15

Isaiah

6:2; 6:2; 6:6; 14:29; 14:29; 14:29; 30:6; 30:6

H8314

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Strong's Number H8314 matches the Hebrew שָׂרָף (śārāp̄),
which occurs 7 times in 7 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:6 - Then the LORD H3068 sent H7971 fiery H8314 serpents H8314 among the people H5971 and they bit H5391 the people H5971, so that many H7227 people H5971 of Israel H3478 died H4191.

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Unchecked Copy BoxNum 21:8 - Then the LORD H3068 said H559 to Moses H4872, “[fn]Make H6213 a fiery H8314 serpent, and put H7760 it on a flag H5251 pole; and it shall come H1961 about H1961, that everyone H3605 who is bitten H5391, and looks H7200 at it, will live H2421.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxDeu 8:15 - He who led H1980 you through the great H1419 and terrible H3372 wilderness H4057, with its fiery H8314 serpents H8314 and scorpions H6137, and its thirsty H6774 ground H6774 where H834 there H369 was H369 no H369 water H4325; He who brought H3318 water H4325 for you out H3318 of the rock H6697 of flint H2496.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:2 - Seraphim H8314 were standing H5975 above H4605 Him, each H259 having six H8337 wings H3671: with two H8147 each covered H3680 his face H6440, and with two H8147 each covered H3680 his feet H7272, and with two H8147 each flew H5774.

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Unchecked Copy BoxIsa 6:6 -

Then one H259 of the seraphim H8314 flew H5774 to me with a burning H7531 coal H7531 in his hand H3027, which he had taken H3947 from the altar H4196 with tongs H4457.

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“Do not rejoice H8055, Philistia H6429, all H3605 of you,

Because H3588 the rod H7626 that struck H5221 you is broken H7665;

For from the serpent’s H5175 root H8328 a viper H6848 will come H3318 out H3318,

And its fruit H6529 will be a winged H5774 serpent H8314.

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The pronouncement H4853 concerning the animals H929 of the Negev H5045:

Through a land H776 of distress H6869 and anguish H6695,

From [fn]where H1992 come lioness H3833 and lion H3918, viper H660 and flying H5774 serpent H8314,

They carry H5375 their riches H2428 on the [fn]backs H3802 of young H5895 donkeys H5895,

And their treasures H214 on camels’ H1581 humps H1707,

To a people H5971 who will H3808 not benefit H3276 them;

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