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Strong's #8314: saraph (pronounced saw-rawf')

from 8313; burning, i.e. (figuratively) poisonous (serpent); specifically, a saraph or symbolical creature (from their copper color):--fiery (serpent), seraph.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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śârâph

1) serpent, fiery serpent

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

2) seraph, seraphim

2a) majestic beings with 6 wings, human hands or voices in attendance upon God

Part of Speech: noun masculine

Relation: from H8313

Same Word by TWOT Number: 2292a, 2292b



Usage:

This word is used 7 times:

Numbers 21:6: "And the LORD sent fiery serpents among the people, and they bit"
Numbers 21:8: "unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass,"
Deuteronomy 8:15: "thee through that great and terrible wilderness, wherein were fiery serpents, and scorpions, and drought, where"
Isaiah 6:2: "Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings"
Isaiah 6:6: "Then flew one of the seraphims unto me, having a live coal in his hand, which he had taken"
Isaiah 14:29: "for out of the serpent's root shall come forth a cockatrice, and his fruit shall be a fiery flying serpent."
Isaiah 30:6: "whence come the young and old lion, the viper and fiery flying serpent, they will carry their riches upon"









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