# מִשְׂרָפָה (misrafah)

Israeli respelling: mis-ra-fah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H4955. 2 Old Testament occurrences.

combustion, i.e. cremation (of a corpse), or calcination (of lime)

King James renderings: burning.

Lexicon: Strong’s Hebrew, public domain. The derived file is shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Canonical: https://apologetics.wiki/bible/hebrew/misrafah-h4955

## Occurrences

- [Isaiah 33:12](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/33/12) — And the people shall be as the burnings of lime: as thorns cut up shall they be burned in the fire.
- [Jeremiah 34:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/34/5) — But thou shalt die in peace: and with the burnings of thy fathers, the former kings which were before thee, so shall they burn odours for t…