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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:

2 Kings 1:12: "heaven, and consume thee and thy fifty. And the fire of God came down from heaven,"
2 Kings 1:14: "Behold, there came fire down there came fire down from heaven, and burnt up the two"
2 Kings 2:11: "and talked, that, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses and parted them both"
2 Kings 2:11: "there appeared a chariot of fire, and horses of fire, and parted them both asunder; and Elijah"
2 Kings 6:17: "was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha."
2 Kings 8:12: "of Israel: their strongholds wilt thou set on fire, and their young men wilt thou slay with the sword, and wilt dash"
2 Kings 16:3: "and made his son to pass through the fire, according to the abominations of the heathen, whom"
2 Kings 17:17: "their sons and their daughters to pass through the fire, and used divination and enchantments,"
2 Kings 17:31: "burnt their children in fire to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of Sepharvaim."
2 Kings 19:18: "And have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods,"
2 Kings 21:6: "And he made his son pass through the fire, and observed times, and used enchantments, and dealt with familiar spirits"
2 Kings 23:10: "his son or his daughter to pass through the fire to Molech."
2 Kings 23:11: "was in the suburbs, and burned the chariots of the sun with fire."
2 Kings 25:9: "great man's house burnt he with fire."
1 Chronicles 14:12: "David gave a commandment, and they were burned with fire."
1 Chronicles 21:26: "and he answered him from heaven by fire upon the altar of burnt offering."
2 Chronicles 7:1: "Now when Solomon had made an end of praying, the fire came down from heaven, and consumed"
2 Chronicles 7:3: "the children of Israel saw how the fire came down, and the glory of the LORD"
2 Chronicles 28:3: "and burnt his children in the fire, after the abominations of the heathen whom the LORD"
2 Chronicles 33:6: "caused his children to pass through the fire in the valley of the son of Hinnom:"
2 Chronicles 35:13: "And they roasted the passover with fire according to the ordinance: but the other holy offerings sod they in pots, and in caldrons,"
2 Chronicles 36:19: "all the palaces thereof with fire, and destroyed all the goodly vessels"
Nehemiah 1:3: "also is broken down, and the gates thereof are burned with fire."
Nehemiah 2:3: "lieth waste, and the gates thereof are consumed with fire?"
Nehemiah 2:13: "of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and the gates thereof were consumed with fire."
Nehemiah 2:17: "lieth waste, and the gates thereof are burned with fire: come, and let us build up the wall"
Nehemiah 9:12: "pillar; and in the night by a pillar of fire, to give them light the way wherein"
Nehemiah 9:19: "them by day, to lead them in the way; neither the pillar of fire by night, to show them light, and the way"
Job 1:16: "there came also another, and said, The fire of God from heaven,"
Job 15:34: "the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery."
Job 18:5: "of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine."
Job 20:26: "darkness shall be hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume"
Job 22:20: "is not cut down, but the remnant of them the fire consumeth."
Job 28:5: "and under it is turned up as it were fire."
Job 31:12: "For it is a fire that consumeth to destruction, and would root out all"
Job 41:19: "Out of his mouth go burning lamps, and sparks of fire leap out."
Psalms 11:6: "the wicked he shall rain snares, fire and brimstone, and a horrible tempest:"
Psalms 18:8: "There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals"
Psalms 18:12: "him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire."
Psalms 18:13: "his voice; hail stones and coals of fire."
Psalms 21:9: "Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven in the time of thine anger: the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath,"
Psalms 21:9: "the LORD shall swallow them up in his wrath, and the fire shall devour"
Psalms 29:7: "of the LORD divideth the flames of fire."
Psalms 39:3: "was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned: then spoke I with my tongue,"
Psalms 46:9: "in sunder; he burneth the chariot in the fire."
Psalms 50:3: "shall come, and shall not keep silence: a fire shall devour before him, and it shall be very"
Psalms 66:12: "to ride over our heads; we went through fire and through water: but thou broughtest us out into a wealthy"
Psalms 68:2: "as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked at the presence"
Psalms 74:7: "They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground."
Psalms 78:14: "and all the night with a light of fire."









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