# שְׂרֵפָה (serefah)

Israeli respelling: se-re-fah. Hear on Google uses modern Hebrew.

Strong’s H8316. 12 Old Testament occurrences.

cremation

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/serefah-h8316

## Occurrences

- [Genesis 11:3](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/genesis/11/3) — And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them thoroughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for mort…
- [Leviticus 10:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/leviticus/10/6) — And Moses said unto Aaron, and unto Eleazar and unto Ithamar, his sons, Uncover not your heads, neither rend your clothes; lest ye die, and…
- [Numbers 16:37](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/16/37) — Speak unto Eleazar the son of Aaron the priest, that he take up the censers out of the burning, and scatter thou the fire yonder; for they…
- [Numbers 19:6](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/6) — And the priest shall take cedar wood, and hyssop, and scarlet, and cast it into the midst of the burning of the heifer.
- [Numbers 19:17](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/numbers/19/17) — And for an unclean person they shall take of the ashes of the burnt heifer of purification for sin, and running water shall be put thereto…
- [Deuteronomy 29:23](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/deuteronomy/29/23) — And that the whole land thereof is brimstone, and salt, and burning, that it is not sown, nor beareth, nor any grass groweth therein, like…
- [2 Chronicles 16:14](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/16/14) — And they buried him in his own sepulchres, which he had made for himself in the city of David, and laid him in the bed which was filled wit…
- [2 Chronicles 21:19](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/2-chronicles/21/19) — And it came to pass, that in process of time, after the end of two years, his bowels fell out by reason of his sickness: so he died of sore…
- [Isaiah 9:5](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/9/5) — For every battle of the warrior is with confused noise, and garments rolled in blood; but this shall be with burning and fuel of fire.
- [Isaiah 64:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/isaiah/64/11) — Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.
- [Jeremiah 51:25](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/jeremiah/51/25) — Behold, I am against thee, O destroying mountain, saith the LORD, which destroyest all the earth: and I will stretch out mine hand upon the…
- [Amos 4:11](https://apologetics.wiki/bible/amos/4/11) — I have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not…