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Strong's #784: 'esh (pronounced aysh)

a primitive word; fire (literally or figuratively):-- burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.




Brown-Driver-Briggs Hebrew Lexicon:

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'êsh

1) fire

1a) fire, flames

1b) supernatural fire (accompanying theophany)

1c) fire (for cooking, roasting, parching)

1d) altar-fire

1e) God' s anger (figuratively)

Part of Speech: noun feminine

Relation: a primitive word



Usage:

This word is used 378 times:

Deuteronomy 13:16: "the midst of the street thereof, and shalt burn with fire the city, and all the spoil"
Deuteronomy 18:10: "among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an enchanter,"
Deuteronomy 18:16: "neither let me see this great fire any more, that I die not."
Deuteronomy 32:22: "For a fire is kindled in mine anger, and shall burn unto the lowest hell,"
Deuteronomy 33:2: "from mount and he came with ten thousands of saints: from his right hand"
Joshua 6:24: "And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold,"
Joshua 7:15: "that he that is taken with the accursed thing shall be burnt with fire, he and all that he hath: because"
Joshua 7:25: "stoned him with stones, and burned them with fire, after they had stoned them with stones."
Joshua 8:8: "that ye shall set the city on fire: of the LORD shall ye do. See,"
Joshua 8:19: "it, and hasted and set the city on fire."
Joshua 11:6: "their horses, and burn their chariots with fire."
Joshua 11:9: "their horses, their chariots with fire."
Joshua 11:11: "to breathe: and he burnt Hazor with fire."
Judges 1:8: "of the sword, the city on fire."
Judges 6:21: "the flesh and the unleavened cakes; and there rose up fire out of the rock, and consumed"
Judges 9:15: "in my shadow: and if not, let fire come out of the bramble, and devour"
Judges 9:20: "But if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour"
Judges 9:20: "the men and the house of Millo; and let fire come out from the men"
Judges 9:49: "the hold, and set the hold on fire upon them; so that all the men"
Judges 9:52: "the door to burn it with fire."
Judges 12:1: "thee? we will burn thine house upon thee with fire."
Judges 14:15: "we burn thee and thy father's house with fire: have ye called us to take that we have? is it not"
Judges 15:5: "And when he had set the brands on fire, he let them go into the standing corn of the Philistines, and burnt up both the shocks,"
Judges 15:6: "came up, and burnt her and her father with fire."
Judges 15:14: "as flax that was burnt with fire, and his bands loosed from off"
Judges 16:9: "of tow is broken when it toucheth the fire. So his strength was not known."
Judges 18:27: "of the sword, and burnt the city with fire."
Judges 20:48: "and all that came to hand: also they set on fire all the cities that they came to."
1 Samuel 30:1: "and smitten Ziklag, and burned it with fire;"
1 Samuel 30:3: "the city, and, behold, it was burned with fire; and their sons, and their daughters, were taken captives."
1 Samuel 30:14: "of Caleb; and we burned Ziklag with fire."
2 Samuel 14:30: "there; go and set it on fire. And Absalom's servants set"
2 Samuel 14:30: "set the field on fire."
2 Samuel 14:31: "set my field on fire?"
2 Samuel 22:9: "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals"
2 Samuel 22:13: "Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled."
2 Samuel 23:7: "and the staff of a spear; and they shall be utterly burned with fire"
1 Kings 9:16: "Gezer, and burnt it with fire, and slain the Canaanites that dwelt in the city,"
1 Kings 16:18: "the king's house over him with fire, and died,"
1 Kings 18:23: "wood, and put no fire under: and I will dress the other"
1 Kings 18:23: "wood, and put no fire"
1 Kings 18:24: "and the God answereth by fire, let him be God. And all"
1 Kings 18:25: "of your gods, but put no fire"
1 Kings 18:38: " Then the fire of the LORD fell, and consumed the burnt sacrifice, and the wood, and the stones,"
1 Kings 19:12: "And after the earthquake a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire"
1 Kings 19:12: "a fire; but the LORD was not in the fire: and after the fire small"
1 Kings 19:12: "was not in the fire: and after the fire small voice."
2 Kings 1:10: "I of God, then let fire come down from heaven, and consume"
2 Kings 1:10: "and consume thee and thy fifty. And there came down fire from heaven, and consumed him and his fifty."
2 Kings 1:12: "I be a man of God, let fire come down from heaven, and consume"









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