Strong’s H5635 · Hebrew

סָרַף
çâraph
saw-raf'

Definition

to cremate, i.e. to be (near) of kin (such being privileged to kindle the pyre)

Etymology

a primitive root;

Where the KJV renders it

  • burn

Every distinct English word the King James Version uses to translate this Hebrew term. The variety shows what readers in English receive across many different surface words — the same underlying word, scattered across the English Bible under different names.

What the first audience heard

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