Genesis 11:3
And they said one to another, Go to, let us make brick, and burn them throughly. And they had brick for stone, and slime had they for morter.
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Revelation 17:16
And the ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.
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שָׂרַף
sâraph · saw-raf'
39 times translated as this KJV form117 total Strong's occurrences
to be (causatively, set) on fire
Strong's KJV usage: (cause to, make a) burn((-ing), up) kindle, × utterly.
Strong's first: Genesis 11:3Strong's last: Ezekiel 43:21
Open full H8313 profile →קָטַר
qâṭar · kaw-tar'
34 times translated as this KJV form116 total Strong's occurrences
to smoke, i.e. turn into fragrance by fire (especially as an act of worship)
Strong's KJV usage: burn (incense, sacrifice) (upon), (altar for) incense, kindle, offer (incense, a sacrifice).
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 29:13Strong's last: 2 Chronicles 13:11
Open full H6999 profile →בָּעַר
bâʻar · baw-ar'
19 times translated as this KJV form100 total Strong's occurrences
to kindle, i.e. consume (by fire or by eating); to be (-come) brutish
Strong's KJV usage: be brutish, bring (put, take) away, burn, (cause to) eat (up), feed, heat, kindle, set (on fire), waste.
Strong's first: Leviticus 6:12Strong's last: Malachi 4:1
Open full H1197 profile →κατακαίω
katakaíō · kat-ak-ah'-ee-o
3 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to burn down (to the ground), i.e. consume wholly
Strong's KJV usage: :--burn (up, utterly).
Strong's first: Matthew 13:30Strong's last: Revelation 17:16
Open full G2618 profile →יָקַד
yâqad · yaw-kad'
3 times translated as this KJV form9 total Strong's occurrences
to burn
Strong's KJV usage: (be) burn(-ing), × from the hearth, kindle.
Strong's first: Deuteronomy 32:22Strong's last: Jeremiah 17:4
Open full H3344 profile →πυρόω
pyróō · poo-ro'-o
2 times translated as this KJV form6 total Strong's occurrences
to kindle, i.e. (passively) to be ignited, glow (literally), be refined (by implication), or (figuratively) to be inflamed (with anger, grief, lust)
Strong's KJV usage: :--burn, fiery, be on fire, try.
Strong's first: 1 Corinthians 7:9Strong's last: 2 Corinthians 11:29
Open full G4448 profile →עָלָה
ʻâlâh · aw-law'
2 times translated as this KJV form894 total Strong's occurrences
to ascend, intransitively (be high) or actively (mount); used in a great variety of senses, primary and secondary, literal and figurative
Strong's KJV usage: arise (up), (cause to) ascend up, at once, break (the day) (up), bring (up), (cause to) burn, carry up, cast up, shew, climb (up), (cause to, make to) come (up), cut off, dawn, depart, exalt, excel, fall, fetch up, get up, (make to) go (away, up); grow (over) increase, lay, leap, levy, lift (self) up, light, (make) up, × mention, mount up, offer, make to pay, perfect, prefer, put (on), raise, recover, restore, (make to) rise (up), scale, set (up), shoot forth (up), (begin to) spring (up), stir up, take away (up), work.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Exodus 27:20Strong's last: Leviticus 24:2
Open full H5927 profile →καίω
kaíō · kah'-yo
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
to set on fire, i.e. kindle or (by implication) consume
Strong's KJV usage: :--burn, light.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Luke 24:32Strong's last: Luke 24:32
Open full G2545 profile →דּוּר
dûwr · dure
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
a circle, ball or pile
Strong's KJV usage: ball, turn, round about.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 24:5Strong's last: Ezekiel 24:5
Open full H1754 profile →חָרָה
chârâh · khaw-raw'
1 times translated as this KJV form90 total Strong's occurrences
to glow or grow warm; figuratively (usually) to blaze up, of anger, zeal, jealousy
Strong's KJV usage: be angry, burn, be displeased, × earnestly, fret self, grieve, be (wax) hot, be incensed, kindle, × very, be wroth. See 8474.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Genesis 44:18Strong's last: Genesis 44:18
Open full H2734 profile →חָרַר
chârar · khaw-rar'
1 times translated as this KJV form11 total Strong's occurrences
to glow, i.e. literally (to melt, burn, dry up) or figuratively (to show or incite passion)
Strong's KJV usage: be angry, burn, dry, kindle.
Strong's first: Ezekiel 24:11Strong's last: Ezekiel 24:11
Open full H2787 profile →לָהַט
lâhaṭ · law-hat'
1 times translated as this KJV form12 total Strong's occurrences
properly, to lick, i.e. (by implication) to blaze
Strong's KJV usage: burn (up), set on fire, flaming, kindle.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Malachi 4:1Strong's last: Malachi 4:1
Open full H3857 profile →מִקְטָר
miqṭâr · mik-tawr'
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
something to fume (incense) on i.e. a hearth place
Strong's KJV usage: to burn...upon.
Strong's first: Exodus 30:1Strong's last: Exodus 30:1
Open full H4729 profile →נָשַׂק
nâsaq · naw-sak'
1 times translated as this KJV form3 total Strong's occurrences
to catch fire
Strong's KJV usage: burn, kindle.
Other KJV renderings
Strong's first: Ezekiel 39:9Strong's last: Ezekiel 39:9
Open full H5400 profile →צוּת
tsûwth · tsooth
1 times translated as this KJV form1 total Strong's occurrences
to blaze
Strong's KJV usage: burn.
Strong's first: Isaiah 27:4Strong's last: Isaiah 27:4
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H6999
But his inwards and his legs shall he wash in water: and the priest shall burn all on the altar, to be a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
H6999
But he shall wash the inwards and the legs with water: and the priest shall bring it all, and burn it upon the altar: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
H6999
And the priest shall bring it unto the altar, and wring off his head, and burn it on the altar; and the blood thereof shall be wrung out at the side of the altar:
H6999
And he shall cleave it with the wings thereof, but shall not divide it asunder: and the priest shall burn it upon the altar, upon the wood that is upon the fire: it is a burnt sacrifice, an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
H6999
And he shall bring it to Aaron's sons the priests: and he shall take thereout his handful of the flour thereof, and of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof; and the priest shall burn the memorial of it upon the altar, to be an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD:
H6999
And the priest shall take from the meat offering a memorial thereof, and shall burn it upon the altar: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
H6999
No meat offering, which ye shall bring unto the LORD, shall be made with leaven: for ye shall burn no leaven, nor any honey, in any offering of the LORD made by fire.
H6999
And the priest shall burn the memorial of it, part of the beaten corn thereof, and part of the oil thereof, with all the frankincense thereof: it is an offering made by fire unto the LORD.
H6999
And Aaron's sons shall burn it on the altar upon the burnt sacrifice, which is upon the wood that is on the fire: it is an offering made by fire, of a sweet savour unto the LORD.
H6999
And the priest shall burn it upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire unto the LORD.
H6999
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar: it is the food of the offering made by fire for a sweet savour: all the fat is the LORD's.
H6999
As it was taken off from the bullock of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall burn them upon the altar of the burnt offering.
H8313
Even the whole bullock shall he carry forth without the camp unto a clean place, where the ashes are poured out, and burn him on the wood with fire: where the ashes are poured out shall he be burnt.
H6999
And he shall take all his fat from him, and burn it upon the altar.
H8313
And he shall carry forth the bullock without the camp, and burn him as he burned the first bullock: it is a sin offering for the congregation.
H6999
And he shall burn all his fat upon the altar, as the fat of the sacrifice of peace offerings: and the priest shall make an atonement for him as concerning his sin, and it shall be forgiven him.
H6999
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat is taken away from off the sacrifice of peace offerings; and the priest shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour unto the LORD; and the priest shall make an atonement for him, and it shall be forgiven him.
H6999
And he shall take away all the fat thereof, as the fat of the lamb is taken away from the sacrifice of the peace offerings; and the priest shall burn them upon the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: and the priest shall make an atonement for his sin that he hath committed, and it shall be forgiven him.
H6999
Then shall he bring it to the priest, and the priest shall take his handful of it, even a memorial thereof, and burn it on the altar, according to the offerings made by fire unto the LORD: it is a sin offering.
H1197
And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
H6999
And the fire upon the altar shall be burning in it; it shall not be put out: and the priest shall burn wood on it every morning, and lay the burnt offering in order upon it; and he shall burn thereon the fat of the peace offerings.
H6999
And he shall take of it his handful, of the flour of the meat offering, and of the oil thereof, and all the frankincense which is upon the meat offering, and shall burn it upon the altar for a sweet savour, even the memorial of it, unto the LORD.
H6999
And the priest shall burn them upon the altar for an offering made by fire unto the LORD: it is a trespass offering.
H6999
And the priest shall burn the fat upon the altar: but the breast shall be Aaron's and his sons'.
H8313
And that which remaineth of the flesh and of the bread shall ye burn with fire.
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burn
BURN, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive burned or burnt. [Latin pruna, and perhaps, furnus, fornaz, a furnace. The primary sense is, to rage, to act with violent excitement.]
1. To consume with fire; to reduce to ashes by the action of heat or fire; frequently with up; as, to burn up wood.
2. To expel the volatile parts and reduce to charcoal by fire; as, to burn wood into coal. Hence, in popular language, to burn a kiln of wood, is to char the wood.
3. To cleanse of soot by burning; to inflame; as, to burn a chimney; an extensive use of the word.
4. To harden in the fire; to bake or harden by heat; as, to burn bricks or a brick kiln.
5. To scorch; to affect by heat; as, to burn the clothes or the legs by the fire; to burn meat or bread in cookery.
6. To injure by fire; to affect the flesh by heat.
7. To dry up or dissipate; with up; as, to burn up tears.
8. To dry excessively; to cause to wither by heat; as, the sun burns the grass or plants.
9. To heat or inflame; to affect with excessive stimulus; as, ardent spirits burn the stomach.
10. To affect with heat in cookery, so as to give the food a disagreeable taste. Hence the phrase burnt to.
11. To calcine with heat or fire; to expel the volatile matter from substances, so that they are easily pulverized; as, to burn oyster shells, or lime-stone.
12. To affect with excess of heat; as, the fever burns a patient.
13. To subject to the action of fire; to heat or dry; as, to burn colors.
To burn up, to consume entirely by fire.
To burn out, to burn till the fuel is all consumed.
BURN, verb intransitive To be on fire; to flame; as, the mount burned with fire.
1. To shine; to sparkle.
O prince! O wherefore burn your eyes?
2. To be inflamed with passion or desire; as, to burn with anger or love.
3. To act with destructive violence, as fire.
Shall thy wrath burn like fire?
4. To be in commotion; to rage with destructive violence.
The groan still deepens and the combat burns.
5. To be heated; to be in a glow; as, the face burns.
6. To be affected with a sensation of heat, pain or acidity; as, the heart burns.
7. To feel excess of heat; as, the flesh burns by a fire; a patient burns with a fever.
To burn out, to burn till the fuel is exhausted and the fire ceases.
BURN, noun A hurt or injury of the flesh caused by the action of fire.
1. The operation of burning or baking, as in brickmaking; as, they have a good burn
Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). A conservative base-form lookup may be used when the exact inflected KJV form is not a Webster headword.
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