אֵשׁ
fire
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Grammar key — what these labels mean
Part of speech
- Noun
- A naming word — a person, place, thing, or idea.
Noun type
- Common
- A common noun — a general class of person, place, or thing (“king,” “city,” “water”), not a specific name.
State
- Absolute
- The independent form of a noun, not bound to a following word.
- Construct
- A noun bound to a following noun in a possessive / “of” relationship (the construct chain).
Gender
- Both
- Attested as both masculine and feminine.
Number
- Singular
- One.
Grammatical forms
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Absolute 352 times (93%)
- Noun, Common, Both, Singular, Construct 26 times (7%)
Parsed forms decoded from the imported morphology (morphhb / Westminster Leningrad Codex — WLC text public domain, morphhb tagging CC BY 4.0), counted across 378 parsed occurrences — not distinct verses.
Page 2 of 2 — showing verses 201–348 of 348 distinct verses where H784 appears, across 33 books. Click any verse to open its interlinear word-by-word view. Verse text shown in the World English Bible for context — . Each verse’s Hebrew form is shown with its reference; the English is not keyword-highlighted, since the data carries no word-level English alignment. Use “Compare translations” on any verse to read it across multiple English versions. This concordance covers the Hebrew Bible; Septuagint (Greek Old Testament) occurrences are not indexed here.
Proverbs 5 verses
- Proverbs 16:27 כְּ/אֵ֣שׁ prep + n c bs A worthless man devises mischief. His speech is like a scorching fire.
- Proverbs 26:20 אֵ֑שׁ n c bs For lack of wood a fire goes out; Without gossip, a quarrel dies down.
- Proverbs 26:21 לְ/אֵ֑שׁ prep + n c bs As coals are to hot embers, And wood to fire, So is a contentious man to kindling strife.
- Proverbs 30:16 וְ֝/אֵ֗שׁ conj + n c bs Sheol, The barren womb; The earth that is not satisfied with water; And the fire that doesn't say, 'Enough.'
Song of Solomon 1 verse
Isaiah 30 verses
- Isaiah 1:7 אֵ֑שׁ n c bs Your country is desolate. Your cities are burned with fire. Strangers devour your land in your presence, And it is desolate, As overthrown by strangers.
- Isaiah 4:5 אֵ֥שׁ n c bs Yahweh will create over the whole habitation of Mount Zion, and over her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory will be a canopy.
- Isaiah 5:24 אֵ֗שׁ n c bs Therefore as the tongue of fire devours the stubble, And as the dry grass sinks down in the flame, So their root shall be as rottenness, And their blossom shall go up as dust; Because they have rejected the law of Yahweh of Hosts, And despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- Isaiah 9:5 אֵֽשׁ n c bs For all the armor of the armed man in the tumult, and the garments rolled in blood, shall be for burning, for fuel of fire.
- Isaiah 9:18 כָ/אֵשׁ֙ prep det + n c bs For wickedness burns as the fire; it devours the briers and thorns; yes, it kindles in the thickets of the forest, and they roll upward in a column of smoke.
- Isaiah 9:19 אֵ֔שׁ n c bs Through the wrath of Yahweh of hosts is the land burnt up; and the people are as the fuel of fire: no man spares his brother.
- Isaiah 10:16 אֵֽשׁ n c bs Therefore will the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, send among his fat ones leanness; and under his glory there shall be kindled a burning like the burning of fire.
- Isaiah 10:17 לְ/אֵ֔שׁ prep + n c bs The light of Israel will be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.
- Isaiah 26:11 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs cs Yahweh, your hand is lifted up, yet they don't see: but they shall see [your] zeal for the people, and be disappointed; yes, fire shall devour your adversaries.
- Isaiah 29:6 אֵ֥שׁ n c bs She shall be visited of Yahweh of Hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with whirlwind and tempest, and the flame of a devouring fire.
- Isaiah 30:14 אֵשׁ֙ n c bs He shall break it as a potter's vessel is broken, breaking it in pieces without sparing; so that there shall not be found among the pieces of it a broken piece with which to take fire from the hearth, or to dip up water out of the cistern."
- Isaiah 30:27 כְּ/אֵ֥שׁ prep + n c bs Behold, the name of Yahweh comes from far, burning with his anger, and in thick rising smoke: his lips are full of indignation, and his tongue is as a devouring fire;
- Isaiah 30:30 אֵ֣שׁ n c bs Yahweh will cause his glorious voice to be heard, and will show the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of [his] anger, and the flame of a devouring fire, with a blast, and tempest, and hailstones.
- Isaiah 30:33 אֵ֤שׁ n c bs For a Topheth is prepared of old; yes, for the king it is made ready; he has made it deep and large; the pile of it is fire and much wood; the breath of Yahweh, like a stream of sulfur, does kindle it.
- Isaiah 33:11 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs You shall conceive chaff, you shall bring forth stubble: your breath is a fire that shall devour you.
- Isaiah 33:12 בָּ/אֵ֥שׁ prep det + n c bs The peoples shall be as the burning of lime, as thorns cut down, that are burned in the fire.
- Isaiah 33:14 אֵ֚שׁ n c bs cs The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling has seized the godless ones: Who among us can dwell with the devouring fire? who among us can dwell with everlasting burning?
- Isaiah 37:19 בָּ/אֵ֑שׁ prep det + n c bs and have cast their gods into the fire: for they were no gods, but the work of men's hands, wood and stone; therefore they have destroyed them.
- Isaiah 43:2 אֵשׁ֙ n c bs When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow you: when you walk through the fire, you shall not be burned, neither shall the flame kindle on you.
- Isaiah 44:16 אֵ֔שׁ n c bs He burns part of it in the fire; with part of it he eats flesh; he roasts roast, and is satisfied; yes, he warms himself, and says, Aha, I am warm, I have seen the fire.
- Isaiah 44:19 אֵ֗שׁ n c bs None calls to mind, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yes, also I have baked bread on the coals of it; I have roasted flesh and eaten it: and shall I make the residue of it an abomination? shall I fall down to the stock of a tree?
- Isaiah 47:14 אֵ֣שׁ n c bs Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: it shall not be a coal to warm at, nor a fire to sit before.
- Isaiah 50:11 אֵ֖שׁ אֶשְׁ/כֶ֗ם n c bs n c bs cs + sfx pers 2mp Behold, all you who kindle a fire, who gird yourselves about with firebrands; walk you in the flame of your fire, and among the brands that you have kindled. This shall you have of my hand; you shall lie down in sorrow.
- Isaiah 54:16 בְּ/אֵ֣שׁ prep + n c bs cs Behold, I have created the smith who blows the fire of coals, and brings forth a weapon for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
- Isaiah 64:2 אֵ֣שׁ אֵ֔שׁ n c bs n c bs as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
- Isaiah 64:11 אֵ֑שׁ n c bs Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised you, is burned with fire; and all our pleasant places are laid waste.
- Isaiah 65:5 אֵ֥שׁ n c bs who say, Stand by yourself, don't come near to me, for I am holier than you. These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all the day.
- Isaiah 66:15 בָּ/אֵ֣שׁ אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs n c bs For, behold, Yahweh will come with fire, and his chariots shall be like the whirlwind; to render his anger with fierceness, and his rebuke with flames of fire.
- Isaiah 66:16 בָ/אֵשׁ֙ prep det + n c bs For by fire will Yahweh execute judgment, and by his sword, on all flesh; and the slain of Yahweh shall be many.
- Isaiah 66:24 וְ/אִשָּׁ/ם֙ conj + n c bs cs + sfx pers 3mp They shall go forth, and look on the dead bodies of the men who have transgressed against me: for their worm shall not die, neither shall their fire be quenched; and they shall be an abhorring to all flesh.
Jeremiah 37 verses
- Jeremiah 4:4 כָ/אֵ֜שׁ prep det + n c bs Circumcise yourselves to Yahweh, and take away the foreskins of your heart, you men of Judah and inhabitants of Jerusalem; lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Jeremiah 5:14 לְ/אֵ֗שׁ prep + n c bs Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, Because you speak this word, behold, I will make my words in your mouth fire, and this people wood, and it shall devour them.
- Jeremiah 6:29 מֵ/אֵ֖שׁ prep + n c bs The bellows blow fiercely; the lead is consumed of the fire: in vain do they go on refining; for the wicked are not plucked away.
- Jeremiah 7:18 הָ/אֵ֔שׁ ptcl def.art + n c bs The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink-offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
- Jeremiah 7:31 בָּ/אֵ֑שׁ prep det + n c bs They have built the high places of Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, to burn their sons and their daughters in the fire; which I didn't command, neither came it into my mind.
- Jeremiah 11:16 אֵשׁ֙ n c bs Yahweh called your name, A green olive tree, beautiful with goodly fruit: with the noise of a great tumult he has kindled fire on it, and the branches of it are broken.
- Jeremiah 15:14 אֵ֛שׁ n c bs I will make [them] to pass with your enemies into a land which you don't know; for a fire is kindled in my anger, which shall burn on you.
- Jeremiah 17:4 אֵ֛שׁ n c bs You, even of yourself, shall discontinue from your heritage that I gave you; and I will cause you to serve your enemies in the land which you don't know: for you have kindled a fire in my anger which shall burn forever.
- Jeremiah 17:27 אֵ֣שׁ n c bs But if you will not listen to me to make the Sabbath day holy, and not to bear a burden and enter in at the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day; then will I kindle a fire in the gates of it, and it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, and it shall not be quenched.
- Jeremiah 19:5 בָּ/אֵ֖שׁ prep det + n c bs and have built the high places of Baal, to burn their sons in the fire for burnt offerings to Baal; which I didn't command, nor spoke it, neither came it into my mind:
- Jeremiah 20:9 כְּ/אֵ֣שׁ prep + n c bs If I say, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name, then there is in my heart as it were a burning fire shut up in my bones, and I am weary with forbearing, and I can't [contain].
- Jeremiah 21:10 בָּ/אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs For I have set my face on this city for evil, and not for good, says Yahweh: it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
- Jeremiah 21:12 כָ/אֵ֜שׁ prep det + n c bs House of David, thus says Yahweh, Execute justice in the morning, and deliver him who is robbed out of the hand of the oppressor, lest my wrath go forth like fire, and burn so that none can quench it, because of the evil of your doings.
- Jeremiah 21:14 אֵשׁ֙ n c bs I will punish you according to the fruit of your doings, says Yahweh; and I will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all that is round about her.
- Jeremiah 22:7 הָ/אֵֽשׁ ptcl def.art + n c bs I will prepare destroyers against you, everyone with his weapons; and they shall cut down your choice cedars, and cast them into the fire.
- Jeremiah 23:29 כָּ/אֵ֖שׁ prep det + n c bs Isn't my word like fire? says Yahweh; and like a hammer that breaks the rock in pieces?
- Jeremiah 29:22 בָּ/אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs and of them shall be taken up a curse by all the captives of Judah who are in Babylon, saying, Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire;
- Jeremiah 32:29 בָּ/אֵ֖שׁ prep det + n c bs and the Chaldeans, who fight against this city, shall come and set this city on fire, and burn it, with the houses, on whose roofs they have offered incense to Baal, and poured out drink-offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger.
- Jeremiah 34:2 בָּ/אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs Thus says Yahweh, the God of Israel, Go, and speak to Zedekiah king of Judah, and tell him, Thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will give this city into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire:
- Jeremiah 34:22 בָ/אֵ֑שׁ prep det + n c bs Behold, I will command, says Yahweh, and cause them to return to this city; and they shall fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire: and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.
- Jeremiah 36:23 הָ/אֵ֖שׁ הָ/אֵ֖שׁ ptcl def.art + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs It happened, when Jehudi had read three or four leaves, that [the king] cut it with the penknife, and cast it into the fire that was in the brazier, until all the scroll was consumed in the fire that was in the brazier.
- Jeremiah 36:32 בָּ/אֵ֑שׁ prep det + n c bs Then took Jeremiah another scroll, and gave it to Baruch the scribe, the son of Neriah, who wrote therein from the mouth of Jeremiah all the words of the book which Jehoiakim king of Judah had burned in the fire; and there were added besides to them many like words.
- Jeremiah 37:8 בָ/אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs The Chaldeans shall come again, and fight against this city; and they shall take it, and burn it with fire.
- Jeremiah 37:10 בָּ/אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs For though you had struck the whole army of the Chaldeans who fight against you, and there remained but wounded men among them, yes would they rise up every man in his tent, and burn this city with fire.
- Jeremiah 38:17 בָּ/אֵ֑שׁ prep det + n c bs Then said Jeremiah to Zedekiah, Thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the God of Israel: If you will go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then your soul shall live, and this city shall not be burned with fire; and you shall live, and your house.
- Jeremiah 38:18 בָּ/אֵ֑שׁ prep det + n c bs But if you will not go forth to the king of Babylon's princes, then shall this city be given into the hand of the Chaldeans, and they shall burn it with fire, and you shall not escape out of their hand.
- Jeremiah 38:23 בָּ/אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs They shall bring out all your wives and your children to the Chaldeans; and you shall not escape out of their hand, but shall be taken by the hand of the king of Babylon: and you shall cause this city to be burned with fire.
- Jeremiah 39:8 בָּ/אֵ֑שׁ prep det + n c bs The Chaldeans burned the king's house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.
- Jeremiah 43:12 אֵ֗שׁ n c bs I will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt; and he shall burn them, and carry them away captive: and he shall array himself with the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his garment; and he shall go forth from there in peace.
- Jeremiah 43:13 בָּ/אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs He shall also break the pillars of Beth-shemesh, that is in the land of Egypt; and the houses of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire.
- Jeremiah 48:45 אֵ֞שׁ n c bs Those who fled stand without strength under the shadow of Heshbon; for a fire is gone forth out of Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and has devoured the corner of Moab, and the crown of the head of the tumultuous ones.
- Jeremiah 49:2 בָּ/אֵ֣שׁ prep det + n c bs Therefore, behold, the days come, says Yahweh, that I will cause an alarm of war to be heard against Rabbah of the children of Ammon; and it shall become a desolate heap, and her daughters shall be burned with fire: then shall Israel possess those who did possess him, says Yahweh.
- Jeremiah 49:27 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs I will kindle a fire in the wall of Damascus, and it shall devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
- Jeremiah 50:32 אֵשׁ֙ n c bs The proud one shall stumble and fall, and none shall raise him up; and I will kindle a fire in his cities, and it shall devour all who are round about him.
- Jeremiah 51:32 בָ/אֵ֑שׁ prep det + n c bs and the passages are seized, and the reeds they have burned with fire, and the men of war are frightened.
- Jeremiah 51:58 בָּ/אֵ֣שׁ אֵ֖שׁ prep det + n c bs n c bs Thus says Yahweh of hosts: The broad walls of Babylon shall be utterly overthrown, and her high gates shall be burned with fire; and the peoples shall labor for vanity, and the nations for the fire; and they shall be weary.
- Jeremiah 52:13 בָּ/אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs and he burned the house of Yahweh, and the king's house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, even every great house, burned he with fire.
Lamentations 4 verses
- Lamentations 1:13 אֵ֥שׁ n c bs From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them; He has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: He has made me desolate and faint all the day.
- Lamentations 2:3 כְּ/אֵ֣שׁ prep + n c bs cs He has cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours round about.
- Lamentations 2:4 כָּ/אֵ֖שׁ prep det + n c bs He has bent his bow like an enemy, he has stood with his right hand as an adversary, Has killed all that were pleasant to the eye: In the tent of the daughter of Zion he has poured out his wrath like fire.
- Lamentations 4:11 אֵ֣שׁ n c bs Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations of it.
Ezekiel 38 verses
- Ezekiel 1:4 וְ/אֵ֣שׁ הָ/אֵֽשׁ conj + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs I looked, and, behold, a stormy wind came out of the north, a great cloud, with flashing lightning, and a brightness round about it, and out of the midst of it as it were glowing metal, out of the midst of the fire.
- Ezekiel 1:13 אֵ֗שׁ לָ/אֵ֔שׁ הָ/אֵ֖שׁ n c bs prep det + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, like the appearance of torches: [the fire] went up and down among the living creatures; and the fire was bright, and out of the fire went forth lightning.
- Ezekiel 1:27 אֵ֤שׁ אֵ֔שׁ n c bs n c bs I saw as it were glowing metal, as the appearance of fire within it round about, from the appearance of his loins and upward; and from the appearance of his loins and downward I saw as it were the appearance of fire, and there was brightness round about him.
- Ezekiel 5:4 הָ/אֵ֔שׁ בָּ/אֵ֑שׁ אֵ֖שׁ ptcl def.art + n c bs prep det + n c bs n c bs Of these again shall you take, and cast them into the midst of the fire, and burn them in the fire; from it shall a fire come forth into all the house of Israel.
- Ezekiel 8:2 אֵ֔שׁ אֵ֑שׁ n c bs n c bs Then I saw, and, behold, a likeness as the appearance of fire; from the appearance of his loins and downward, fire; and from his loins and upward, as the appearance of brightness, as it were glowing metal.
- Ezekiel 10:2 אֵשׁ֙ n c bs He spoke to the man clothed in linen, and said, Go in between the whirling [wheels], even under the cherub, and fill both your hands with coals of fire from between the cherubim, and scatter them over the city. He went in as I watched.
- Ezekiel 10:6 אֵשׁ֙ n c bs It came to pass, when he commanded the man clothed in linen, saying, Take fire from between the whirling wheels, from between the cherubim, that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.
- Ezekiel 10:7 הָ/אֵשׁ֙ ptcl def.art + n c bs The cherub stretched forth his hand from between the cherubim to the fire that was between the cherubim, and took [of it], and put it into the hands of him who was clothed in linen, who took it and went out.
- Ezekiel 15:4 לָ/אֵ֖שׁ הָ/אֵשׁ֙ prep det + n c bs ptcl def.art + n c bs Behold, it is cast into the fire for fuel; the fire has devoured both the ends of it, and the midst of it is burned: is it profitable for any work?
- Ezekiel 15:5 אֵ֤שׁ n c bs Behold, when it was whole, it was meet for no work: how much less, when the fire has devoured it, and it is burned, shall it yet be meet for any work!
- Ezekiel 15:6 לָ/אֵ֖שׁ prep det + n c bs Therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: As the vine tree among the trees of the forest, which I have given to the fire for fuel, so will I give the inhabitants of Jerusalem.
- Ezekiel 15:7 מֵ/הָ/אֵ֣שׁ וְ/הָ/אֵ֖שׁ prep + ptcl def.art + n c bs conj + ptcl def.art + n c bs I will set my face against them; they shall go forth from the fire, but the fire shall devour them; and you shall know that I am Yahweh, when I set my face against them.
- Ezekiel 16:41 בָּ/אֵ֔שׁ prep det + n c bs They shall burn your houses with fire, and execute judgments on you in the sight of many women; and I will cause you to cease from playing the prostitute, and you shall also give no hire any more.
- Ezekiel 19:12 אֵ֥שׁ n c bs But it was plucked up in fury, it was cast down to the ground, and the east wind dried up its fruit: its strong rods were broken off and withered; the fire consumed them.
- Ezekiel 19:14 אֵ֜שׁ n c bs Fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it has devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
- Ezekiel 20:31 בָּ/אֵ֜שׁ prep det + n c bs and when you offer your gifts, when you make your sons to pass through the fire, do you pollute yourselves with all your idols to this day? and shall I be inquired of by you, house of Israel? As I live, says the Lord Yahweh, I will not be inquired of by you;
- Ezekiel 20:47 אֵ֡שׁ n c bs and tell the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Behold, I will kindle a fire in you, and it shall devour every green tree in you, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burnt thereby.
- Ezekiel 21:31 בְּ/אֵ֥שׁ prep + n c bs cs I will pour out my indignation on you; I will blow on you with the fire of my wrath; and I will deliver you into the hand of brutish men, skillful to destroy.
- Ezekiel 21:32 לָ/אֵ֤שׁ prep det + n c bs You shall be for fuel to the fire; your blood shall be in the midst of the land; you shall be no more remembered: for I, Yahweh, have spoken it.
- Ezekiel 22:20 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs As they gather silver and brass and iron and lead and tin into the midst of the furnace, to blow the fire on it, to melt it; so will I gather you in my anger and in my wrath, and I will lay you there, and melt you.
- Ezekiel 22:21 בְּ/אֵ֣שׁ prep + n c bs cs Yes, I will gather you, and blow on you with the fire of my wrath, and you shall be melted in the midst of it.
- Ezekiel 22:31 בְּ/אֵ֥שׁ prep + n c bs cs Therefore have I poured out my indignation on them; I have consumed them with the fire of my wrath: their own way have I brought on their heads, says the Lord Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 23:25 בָּ/אֵֽשׁ prep det + n c bs I will set my jealousy against you, and they shall deal with you in fury; they shall take away your nose and your ears; and your residue shall fall by the sword: they shall take your sons and your daughters; and your residue shall be devoured by the fire.
- Ezekiel 23:47 בָּ/אֵ֥שׁ prep det + n c bs The company shall stone them with stones, and dispatch them with their swords; they shall kill their sons and their daughters, and burn up their houses with fire.
- Ezekiel 24:10 הָ/אֵ֔שׁ ptcl def.art + n c bs Heap on the wood, make the fire hot, boil well the flesh, and make thick the broth, and let the bones be burned.
- Ezekiel 24:12 בְּ/אֵ֖שׁ prep + n c bs She has wearied [herself] with toil; yet her great rust doesn't go forth out of her; her rust doesn't [go forth] by fire.
- Ezekiel 28:14 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs You were the anointed cherub who covers: and I set you, [so that] you were on the holy mountain of God; you have walked up and down in the midst of the stones of fire.
- Ezekiel 28:16 אֵֽשׁ n c bs By the abundance of your traffic they filled the midst of you with violence, and you have sinned: therefore I have cast you as profane out of the mountain of God; and I have destroyed you, covering cherub, from the midst of the stones of fire.
- Ezekiel 28:18 אֵ֤שׁ n c bs By the multitude of your iniquities, in the unrighteousness of your traffic, you have profaned your sanctuaries; therefore have I brought forth a fire from the midst of you; it has devoured you, and I have turned you to ashes on the earth in the sight of all those who see you.
- Ezekiel 30:8 אֵ֣שׁ n c bs They shall know that I am Yahweh, when I have set a fire in Egypt, and all her helpers are destroyed.
- Ezekiel 30:14 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs I will make Pathros desolate, and will set a fire in Zoan, and will execute judgments on No.
- Ezekiel 30:16 אֵשׁ֙ n c bs I will set a fire in Egypt: Sin shall be in great anguish, and No shall be broken up; and Memphis [shall have] adversaries in the day-time.
- Ezekiel 36:5 בְּ/אֵ֨שׁ prep + n c bs cs therefore thus says the Lord Yahweh: Surely in the fire of my jealousy have I spoken against the residue of the nations, and against all Edom, that have appointed my land to themselves for a possession with the joy of all their heart, with despite of soul, to cast it out for a prey.
- Ezekiel 38:19 בְ/אֵשׁ prep + n c bs cs For in my jealousy and in the fire of my wrath have I spoken, Surely in that day there shall be a great shaking in the land of Israel;
- Ezekiel 38:22 אֵ֣שׁ n c bs With pestilence and with blood will I enter into judgment with him; and I will rain on him, and on his hordes, and on the many peoples who are with him, an overflowing shower, and great hailstones, fire, and sulfur.
- Ezekiel 39:6 אֵ֣שׁ n c bs I will send a fire on Magog, and on those who dwell securely in the isles; and they shall know that I am Yahweh.
- Ezekiel 39:9 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs Those who dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall make fires of the weapons and burn them, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the war clubs, and the spears, and they shall make fires of them seven years;
- Ezekiel 39:10 אֵ֑שׁ n c bs so that they shall take no wood out of the field, neither cut down any out of the forests; for they shall make fires of the weapons; and they shall plunder those who plundered them, and rob those who robbed them, says the Lord Yahweh.
Daniel 1 verse
Hosea 2 verses
- Hosea 7:6 כְּ/אֵ֥שׁ prep + n c bs cs For they have made ready their heart like an oven, While they lie in wait. Their baker sleeps all the night. In the morning it burns as a flaming fire.
- Hosea 8:14 אֵ֣שׁ n c bs For Israel has forgotten his Maker and built palaces; And Judah has multiplied fortified cities; But I will send a fire on his cities, And it will devour its fortresses."
Joel 5 verses
- Joel 1:19 אֵ֗שׁ n c bs Yahweh, I cry to you, For the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, And the flame has burned all the trees of the field.
- Joel 1:20 וְ/אֵ֕שׁ conj + n c bs Yes, the animals of the field pant to you, For the water brooks have dried up, And the fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness.
- Joel 2:3 אֵ֔שׁ n c bs A fire devours before them, And behind them, a flame burns. The land is as the garden of Eden before them, And behind them, a desolate wilderness. Yes, and no one has escaped them.
- Joel 2:5 אֵ֔שׁ n c bs Like the noise of chariots on the tops of the mountains do they leap, Like the noise of a flame of fire that devours the stubble, As a strong people set in battle array.
- Joel 2:30 וָ/אֵ֔שׁ conj + n c bs I will show wonders in the heavens and in the earth: Blood, fire, and pillars of smoke.
Amos 9 verses
- Amos 1:4 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs But I will send a fire into the house of Hazael, And it will devour the palaces of Ben Hadad.
- Amos 1:7 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs But I will send a fire on the wall of Gaza, And it will devour its palaces.
- Amos 1:10 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs But I will send a fire on the wall of Tyre, And it will devour its palaces."
- Amos 1:12 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs But I will send a fire on Teman, And it will devour the palaces of Bozrah."
- Amos 1:14 אֵשׁ֙ n c bs But I will kindle a fire in the wall of Rabbah, And it will devour its palaces, With shouting in the day of battle, With a tempest in the day of the whirlwind;
- Amos 2:2 אֵ֣שׁ n c bs But I will send a fire on Moab, And it will devour the palaces of Kerioth; And Moab will die with tumult, with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet;
- Amos 2:5 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs But I will send a fire on Judah, And it will devour the palaces of Jerusalem."
- Amos 5:6 כָּ/אֵשׁ֙ prep det + n c bs Seek Yahweh, and you will live; Lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, And it devour, and there be no one to quench it in Bethel.
- Amos 7:4 בָּ/אֵ֖שׁ prep det + n c bs Thus the Lord Yahweh showed me and, behold, the Lord Yahweh called for judgment by fire; and it dried up the great deep, and would have devoured the land.
Obadiah 1 verse
Micah 2 verses
- Micah 1:4 הָ/אֵ֔שׁ ptcl def.art + n c bs The mountains melt under him, And the valleys split apart, Like wax before the fire, Like waters that are poured down a steep place.
- Micah 1:7 בָ/אֵ֔שׁ prep det + n c bs All her idols will be beaten to pieces, And all her temple gifts will be burned with fire, And all her images I will destroy; For of the hire of a prostitute has she gathered them, And to the hire of a prostitute shall they return."
Nahum 4 verses
- Nahum 1:6 כָ/אֵ֔שׁ prep det + n c bs Who can stand before his indignation? Who can endure the fierceness of his anger? His wrath is poured out like fire, and the rocks are broken apart by him.
- Nahum 2:3 בְּ/אֵשׁ prep + n c bs cs The shield of his mighty men is made red. The valiant men are in scarlet. The chariots flash with steel in the day of his preparation, and the pine spears are brandished.
- Nahum 3:13 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs Behold, your troops in your midst are women. The gates of your land are set wide open to your enemies. The fire has devoured your bars.
- Nahum 3:15 אֵ֔שׁ n c bs There the fire will devour you. The sword will cut you off. It will devour you like the grasshopper. Multiply like grasshoppers. Multiply like the locust.
Habakkuk 1 verse
Zephaniah 2 verses
- Zephaniah 1:18 וּ/בְ/אֵשׁ֙ conj + prep + n c bs cs Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them in the day of Yahweh's wrath, but the whole land will be devoured by the fire of his jealousy; for he will make an end, yes, a terrible end, of all those who dwell in the land.
- Zephaniah 3:8 בְּ/אֵ֣שׁ prep + n c bs cs "Therefore wait for me," says Yahweh, "until the day that I rise up to the prey, for my determination is to gather the nations, that I may assemble the kingdoms, to pour on them my indignation, even all my fierce anger, for all the earth will be devoured with the fire of my jealousy.
Zechariah 6 verses
- Zechariah 2:5 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs For I,' says Yahweh, 'will be to her a wall of fire around it, and I will be the glory in the midst of her.
- Zechariah 3:2 מֵ/אֵֽשׁ prep + n c bs Yahweh said to Satan, "Yahweh rebuke you, Satan! Yes, Yahweh who has chosen Jerusalem rebuke you! Isn't this a burning stick plucked out of the fire?"
- Zechariah 9:4 בָּ/אֵ֥שׁ prep det + n c bs Behold, the Lord will dispossess her, And he will strike her power in the sea; And she will be devoured with fire.
- Zechariah 11:1 אֵ֖שׁ n c bs Open your doors, Lebanon, That the fire may devour your cedars.
- Zechariah 12:6 אֵ֣שׁ אֵשׁ֙ n c bs n c bs In that day I will make the chieftains of Judah like a pan of fire among wood, and like a flaming torch among sheaves; and they will devour all the surrounding peoples, on the right hand and on the left; and Jerusalem will yet again dwell in their own place, even in Jerusalem.
- Zechariah 13:9 בָּ/אֵ֔שׁ prep det + n c bs I will bring the third part into the fire, And will refine them as silver is refined, And will test them like gold is tested. They will call on my name, and I will hear them. I will say, 'It is my people;' And they will say, 'Yahweh is my God.'"
Malachi 1 verse
About this entry
At a glance — auto-summarized from this page’s data, not written by a person. Every figure links to its source below. This summary describes the numbers; it doesn’t interpret them.
The Hebrew noun אש centers on the idea of “fire.” The lexicon spreads it across several senses; see its full sense range. Spanning 348 verses in 33 books, it ranks among the common words of the Hebrew Bible. Debuting at Genesis 15:17, it then recurs through the corpus. Sharing its root, it stands alongside אש, אש and אשדת. Dig into 348-verse concordance and the renderings breakdown below.
Gloss history
Strong's 1890 vs modern scholarship
About this word
Strong's H784 catalogs a Hebrew word from the Hebrew Old Testament.
These counts are not copied from any lexicon or concordance. They are computed here, from the morphology-tagged Hebrew Old Testament. What Lemma adds →
- 348
- distinct verses
- The word appears in 348 distinct verses.
- 33 / 39
- OT books
- The word appears in 33 of 39 Old Testament books.
- #131
- by frequency
- Top 250 most frequent Hebrew words (rank 131 of 8,640 Hebrew words by occurrence).
View all 348 occurrences in the concordance →
By section of the Old Testament
By traditional corpus
Conventional, traditional groupings — biblical authorship is debated, so this is a traditional corpus grouping, not an authorship claim. Each share is this word’s portion of its verses in that division of the Hebrew canon. Each figure is a share of the word’s 348 distinct verses.
- Prophets (Nevi'im) 189 verses · 54%
- Torah (Pentateuch) 99 verses · 28%
- Writings (Ketuvim) 60 verses · 17%
How translations render this word
Counts come from each version’s own published word-to-Strong’s tagging or interlinear alignment — an approximate guide to how each version renders this word, not a word-level alignment the data otherwise carries. Because each total is that version’s own tagged count, the per-version totals vary from one another and need not match the appearance or distinct-verse counts above. These counts may also differ from a printed concordance because Lemma counts each distinctly tagged rendering and does not collapse phrase taggings into a single head-word total. This is a fixed set of word-tagged versions (KJV, ASV, BSB, ULT) and does not change with the reading translation you choose elsewhere. Each version’s license is shown beside its name below (and on Sources).
- King James Version: Fire 321×, Like fire 7×, Let fire 5×
- American Standard Version: Fire 292×, Like fire 7×, Fires 3×
- Berean Standard Bible: Fire 244×, Like fire 10×, Fiery 7×
- unfoldingWord Literal Text: Fire 307×, Fire of 8×, Like fire 6×
King James Version Public Domain
Renders H784 across 378 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 32 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 2 further occurrences.
American Standard Version Public Domain
Renders H784 across 379 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 55 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Berean Standard Bible Public Domain
Renders H784 across 313 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus other, less common renderings. Plus 20 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings. Not rendered by a distinct English word in 60 further occurrences.
unfoldingWord Literal Text CC BY-SA 4.0
Renders H784 across 368 tagged occurrences — most commonly:
Plus 27 renderings that appear only once — usually multi-word phrases or single function words the recovered tagging swept in, not distinct renderings.
Senses in the full BDB
What do BDB’s symbols mean?
BDB uses these scholarly abbreviations:
| Symbol | Meaning |
|---|---|
| 𝔊 | the Septuagint (the ancient Greek translation, LXX) |
| 𝔙 | the Vulgate (the Latin translation) |
| 𝔖 | the Syriac version (the Peshitta) |
| 𝔗 | the Targum (the Aramaic translation) |
| ψ | the Psalms |
| √ | root (the underlying root or stem) |
| ‖ | parallel passage (a synonymous or contrasted parallel) |
| † | the dagger: every passage where the word occurs is cited |
The 6 senses and sub-senses the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon distinguishes for this word, in lexicon order (not ranked by frequency), with BDB’s own verbatim wording and sub-sense lettering. Shown in Hebrew script with BDB’s own scholarly abbreviations. The condensed entry is in the Lexicon Entry tab. See also the Forms in the corpus table below.
- 1. fire, of conflagration, e.g. in briers, endangering or destroying crops תֵּצֵא אֵשׁ וּמָֽצְאָה קֹצִים Ex 22:5 cf. 3:2 הַסְּנֶה בֹּעֵר בָּאֵשׁ (both E); more often of deliberate destruction by fire, especially שָׂרַף בָּאֵשׁ (בָּ c. qam. preton.) obj. golden calf Ex 32:20 (J), other idols Dt 7:5, 25, Asherim 12:3, chariots Jos 11:6, 9 2 K 23:11, house Ju 12:1; 14:15, tower 9:52, city-gates Ne 1:3; 2:3, 13, 17, city Jos 6:24 Ju 18:27 cf. Is 1:7 +; also שִׁלַּח אֵשׁ בְּ Am 1:4, 7, 10 +; שִׁלַּח אֶת־הָעִיר בָּאֵשׁ †Ju 1:8; 20:48 cf. 2 K 8:12; הִצִּית אֶת־הָעִיר בָּאֵשׁ Jos 8:8, 19 הצ׳ אֵשׁ ב׳ Je 17:27 +; cf. Ju 9:49 2 S 14:30, 31 (of field, cf. Ex 22:5 supr.). e.g. Exodus 22:5
- 2. of supernatural fire, attending theophany Ex 3:2; 19:18 (both JE) Dt 4:11, 12, 15, 33, 36 +; specif. עַמּוּד (הָ)אֵשׁ Ex 13:21, 22; 14:24 (all JE) Ne 9:12, 19 cf. Dt 1:33 (v. מַרְאֵה־אֵשׁ Nu 9:15, 16 P); of destructive fire from י׳ Nu 11:1, 2, 3 (J) 26:10 (P) Lv 10:2 (P); cf. א׳ אֹכֶלֶת in sim. of Yahweh’s glory Ex 24:17 (E) Dt 4:24; 9:3; v. also 1 K 18:24, 38 2 K 1:10(×2), 12(×2), 14 Jb 1:16 (perhaps lightning intended), cf. further of lightning Ex 9:23, 24 (JE) ψ 18:13, 14; 148:8 etc. e.g. Exodus 3:2
- 3. fire for cooking, roasting, parching, etc. צְלִי אֵשׁ roasted at a fire Ex 12:8, 9 (P) cf. Lv 2:14 2 Ch 35:13 Is 44:16, 19; of tinder for lighting fire Gn 22:6, 7 (E); of fire for melting (gold for the idolatrous calf) Ex 32:24; for refining Je 6:29, where read with Qr מֵאֵשׁ תַּם עֹפָֽרֶת; cf. Mal 3:2 (sim. of purifying work of messenger of cov’t). e.g. Exodus 12:8
- 4. especially of altar-fire Lv 1:7(×2); 6:2, 3, 5, 16 +; in offering incense Lv 10:1, also אֵשׁ זָרָה strange fire, i.e. an incense not commanded, offered presumptuously 10:1 Nu 3:4; 26:61; fire from י׳ consuming sacrifice (cf. 2 Lv 9:24 2 Ch 7:1, 3; of fire in child-sacrifice (usually (לְ) הֶעֱבִיר בֵּן בָּאֵשׁ) 2 K 16:3; 21:6 cf. 17:17; 23:10 2 Ch 33:6; also שׂרף בָּא׳ 2 K 17:31, בער בָּא׳ 2 Ch 28:3. e.g. Leviticus 1:7
- 5. fig. of Yahweh’s anger ψ 89:47 (sim.) cf. Na 1:6 La 2:4 אֵשׁ־עֶבְרָתִי Ez 21:36; 22:31; 38:19, אֵשׁ־קִנְאָתִי Ez 36:5; v. also Is 66:15 ψ 79:5 etc.; of word of י׳ Je 23:29; fig.of outbursting emotion ψ 39:4; of flagrant wickedness Is 9:17, etc. e.g. Psalms 89:47
- 6. in various combinations, לַפִּיד אֵשׁ Gn 15:17 (J) a torch of fire (cf. Di); לַבַּת־אֵשׁ Ex 3:2 flame of fire, לַהַב אֵשׁ Jo 2:5, לַפִּידֵי אֵשׁ (in sim.) Dn 10:6 cf. Zc 12:6, לַהֲבוֹת אֵשׁ ψ 29:7 לַהֲבֵי אֵשׁ Is 66:15 cf. א׳ לֶהָבוֹת ψ 105:32, נֹגַהּ א׳ לֶהָבָה Is 4:5 cf. Ho 7:6; שְׂבִיב אִשּׁוֹ spark of his fire Jb 18:5 cf. כִּידוֹדֵי אֵשׁ 41:11; תַּנּוּר אֵשׁ ψ 21:10 oven of fire, כִּיּוֹר אֵשׁ Zc 12:6; אוֹר אֵשׁ light of fire ψ 78:14; אֵשׁ לֹהֵט flaming fire ψ 104:4; לְשׁוֹן אֵשׁ Is 5:24 tongue of fire, גַּחֲלֵי אֵשׁ Ez 1:13 coals of fire, so 10:2, cf. רִשְׁפֵּי אֵשׁ Ct 8:6; on אַבְנֵי אֵשׁ Ez 28:14, 16 v. אֶבֶן; אֵשׁ דַּת Dt 33:2, lit. fire of a law, or fire was a law, but דָּת law is Pers. & late; read perhaps אֵשׁ [לַףִּ]דֹת cf. Ex 20:18 or אֵשׁ [יֹקֶ]דֶת cf. Is 65:5. e.g. Genesis 15:17
Senses from the full Brown-Driver-Briggs lexicon (Brown, Driver, Briggs; Oxford 1906 — public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). Full attribution on Sources.
Word origin
n.f. Ex 9:23 (m. Je 48:45; ψ 104·4; f. & m. Je 20:9; Jb 20:26) אֵשׁ ‘m.’ is dub.: Nu 16:18 read עָלֶיהָ for 2nd עֲלֵיהֶם (𝔊B); Je 20:9 v. Ges§ 132 d; 48:45 read (many MSS., Nu 21:28) יצאה; ψ 104:4 read perhaps (Ol) לֹהֵֽטָה׃ or (Kenn) וָלָֽהַט׃; Jb 20:26 v. Ges§ 145 u (or 121 b): cf. AlbrZAW xvi (1896), 63. fire (Assyrian išatu COTGloss, Syriac ܐܶܫܳܬܳܐ, እሳት deriv. from ii. אנשׁ,أَنَسَ, sociable, friendly element (MV Wetzst in De Psalmen, ed. 4, p. 888 LagBN 68 cf. انيسة, مانوسة), improb. especially in view of Assyrian; daghesh prob. secondary; cf. also Sta§ 189 b)—א׳ abs. Ex 9:24 +; cstr. Lv 6:2 + (seld.); †sf. אִשּׁוֹ Dt 4:36 Jb 18:5; אֶשְׁכֶם Is 50:11; אִשָּׁם Is 66:24;—
— Brown-Driver-Briggs (Oxford 1906, public domain), digitized via Sefaria, supplemented by the OpenScriptures HebrewLexicon (CC BY 4.0). See Sources.
Origin: a primitive word
Jastrow Dictionary
A second Hebrew/Aramaic lexicon for comparison, covering Aramaic and post-biblical (Talmudic, Targumic, Midrashic) usage that the biblical-Hebrew BDB does not. Matched by lemma rather than by Strong’s number, so a lemma may carry more than one Jastrow headword (shown separately below), and the entries cover usage well beyond the Bible.
אֵשׁ
- c. (b. h.;
- 1. fire. Sabb. 11ᵃ; a. e. כא׳ לנעורת as destructive as fire to the flax. Sot. 48ᵇ כא׳ בנעורת like fire among flax, i.e. inflaming the senses. Gen. R. s. 39 מבול של א׳ (v. מַבּוּל) destruction by fire.—Num. R. s. 2 end א׳ הדיוטית fire from outside of the sanctuary; a. fr.—Pl. אִשֹּׁות. Yoma 21ᵇ; a. fr.
- 2. fever, א׳ של עצמות. Gitt. 70ᵃ
A Dictionary of the Targumim, the Talmud Babli and Yerushalmi, and the Midrashic Literature (Marcus Jastrow; London, Luzac, 1903) — Public Domain. Digitized via Sefaria. Digitized via Sefaria. Full attribution on Sources.
Forms in the corpus
The 91 distinct written forms H784 takes in the Hebrew Bible, most frequent first — each parse links to that state’s occurrences in the concordance. Hebrew forms include their vowel points and cantillation, so a single lemma takes many written forms.
The 60 most common forms are shown; 31 rarer forms follow in the full concordance.
Same root — word family
Other BDB entries built from the same root as H784, grouped by Strong’s listed origin. These share a root / origin per the lexicon — not necessarily a shared meaning. Each links to that word’s own entry.
Derived from this word
- אש ʼêsh H785 fire
- אש ʼish H786 there is
- אשדת ʼeshdâth H799 fiery law
- אשה ʼeshshâh H800 fire
- אשיש ʼâshîysh H808 foundation
- אתון ʼattûwn H861 furnace
Compare all same-root words → Showing 4 of 7 — not the complete family. They share a root, not necessarily a meaning.
Septuagint verse parallels
This word appears in 321 verses that also exist in the Greek Old Testament (Septuagint), out of the 348 Hebrew verses it occurs in. You can read those verses in Greek by switching the Old Testament edition to the Septuagint.
Read these verses in the Septuagint
- Genesis 15:17
- Exodus 3:2
- Leviticus 1:7
- Numbers 3:4
- Deuteronomy 1:33
- Joshua 6:24
- Judges 1:8
- 1 Samuel 30:1
- 2 Samuel 14:30
- 1 Kings 9:16
- 2 Kings 1:10
- 1 Chronicles 14:12
This is a verse-level parallel only — the same verses exist in both the Hebrew and Greek Old Testaments. No word-level Hebrew↔Greek correspondence is claimed: the data carries no such alignment, so no Greek word is shown as this Hebrew word’s translation. Coverage is not total — the Septuagint omits the deuterocanon and renumbers the Psalms, so some Hebrew verses have no direct Greek parallel.
