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2 Chronicles 36:19

“And they burnt the house of God, and brake down the wall of Jerusalem, and burnt all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels thereof.” (KJV)

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Lexical meaning

שָׂרַףsâraph · saw-raf'
H8313 · Hebrew

Definition: to be (causatively, set) on fire
Derivation: a primitive root;
KJV renderings: (cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, [idiom] utterly.
Grammar: וַֽ — conjunction
יִּשְׂרְפוּ֙ — verb Qal, sequential imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural
Code HC/Vqw3mp
Usage: Occurs 117 times in the Hebrew Bible.Genesis 11:3 Genesis 38:24 Exodus 12:10 Exodus 29:14 Exodus 29:34

Theological interpretation (AI)

The card on the left shows lexical data from published sources. Interpretation is separate: ask the Companion to explain how traditions read שָׂרַף here.

Verse 18 Verse 20

Hebrew text: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain). Morphology & lemmas: Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible, CC BY 4.0 (hb.openscriptures.org). Lexicon: Strong's Hebrew Dictionary (1894, public domain; JSON edition © Open Scriptures, CC BY-SA). Verse numbers follow the Hebrew text, which occasionally differs from English Bibles.