King James Bible
King James Version (KJV)
STRONGS NUMBER H4955
Transliteration: misraphah
Phonetic Spelling: (mis-raw-faw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a burning
Meaning: combustion, cremation, calcination
Word Summary
misraphah: a burning
Original Word: מִשְׂרָפָהTransliteration: misraphah
Phonetic Spelling: (mis-raw-faw')
Part of Speech: Noun Feminine
Short Definition: a burning
Meaning: combustion, cremation, calcination
Strong's Concordance
burning From saraph; combustion, i.e. Cremation (of a corpse), or calcination (of lime) -- burning.
see HEBREW saraph
Brown-Driver-Briggs
H4955. misraphah
[מִשְׂרָפָה מַשְׂרֵפָה, ?] noun [feminine] a burning; — only plural construct ׳בּמ מִשְׂרְפוֺת ׃ אֲבוֺתֶיךָ: Jeremiah 34:5 (read ᵑ9 ᵑ6 ᵐ5 ׳כְּמ Gie Du and others), like the burnings (of spices; compare √
2a) for thy fathers; ׳מ שִׂיד Isaiah 33:12 (figurative of ignominious destruction, compare Amos 2:1).