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srp vb. to burn
GDGt
Gpəˁalto burn2 senses▶
1
to burn
Gal, Sam, JBA, LJLA
KohR[1]15:3(15)↗ ויהב על ההוא מסמרא ושרפיה‏ : it put it on the nail and burned it ; SamLit 4:030↗ רחמיך אלופים טפים להבי חוביה דלנן שרפים‏ : Your compassion is trained to extinguish the flames of sins that are burning us ; BT Šab 16a(21)↗ כי היכי דלא לישרוף עלייהו תרומה וקדשים‏ : so that terumah and sancta should not be burned up on their account ; MegAntioch 48↗ וּסגַר נַהרָא דִמדִינְתָא וּשרַף אַבנַה עַד דַהווֹ כְעַפרָא‏ : he blocked the city's river and burned up its stones until they were like dust
2
to fire (bricks)
JLAtg
TgO Gen11:3↗ הַבוּ נִרמֵי לִבנִין וְנִשׂרוֹפִינוּן בְנוּרָא‏ : let us make some bricks and fire them in the fire †
Dpaˁˁel[to urge : see s.v. srhb]1 sense▶
[to urge : see s.v. srhb]
Sam
Gtˀeṯpəˁelto be burnt, burned1 sense▶
to be burnt, burned
Gal, JBA
PTŠab 7.a:3[2]var.↗ מצדתא הוא פריסן והוויין משתרפן גו שימשא‏ : nets were spread and would be burned up in the sun ; BT Sot 7b(44)↗ דלא תש^ת^ר^י^ף תמר‏ : so that Tamar would not be burned up
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JLA, JBA usually שׂרף as in Hebrew.
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The Sam. usage "to urge" may result rather from a phonetic confusion with srhb.
Page refs. in other dictionaries: DJPA: 573aDJBA: 1190bJastrow: 1632Levy Ch-W: 2:519Tal Sam: 613aDNWSI: 1194

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