שָׂרַף I (b. h.; onomatop.) [to sip, absorb, v. שָׂרַף II,] to consume, burn. Pes. I, 4 ושׂוֹרְפִין … שש and the burning (of leavened matter) must take place at the beginning of the sixth hour. Ab. Zar. 11ᵃ שׂורְפִין על המלכים we do burning at the burial of kings; ומה הן שורפין וכ׳ and what is burnt? Their couch and their objects of service (armor &c.); Tosef. Snh. IV, 3; Tosef. Sabb. VII (VIII), 18; a. fr.—Part. pass. שָׂרוּף; f. שְׂרוּפָה &c. Nidd. 24ᵇ עצמותיו שְׂרוּפִין, v. שְׁתִיָּה I; a. e.
Nif. - נִשְׂרַף to be burnt. Num. R. s. 236 ונ׳ על שמעל וכ׳ and he (Achan) was burned (after being stoned), because he had misappropriated devoted things. Pes. 34ᵇ יִשָּׂרֵף מיד must be burned at once. Tosef. ib. V, 8 כשם … אינו נִשְׂרָף וכ׳ as the wooden spit (on which the Passover lamb is roasted) does not burn, so the metal spit does not get hot. Zeb. XII, 5 בזמן שהם נִשְׂרָפִין כמצותן נשרפין וכ׳ when they are burned according to the law concerning them (and not because of a disqualification), they are burned in the ash-house. Ib. a. fr. פרים הנִשְׂרָפִים וכ׳ the bullock sacrifices which the law requires to be burned; a. fr.—[Y. Taan. I, 64ᵇ top תשרף, read תשרה, v. שָׁרָה I.]