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Fire

אֵשׁStrong’s H0784

esh

Appears in 348 verses of the Old Testament

In short

Esh is the Hebrew word usually translated “fire”. It appears in 348 verses of the Old Testament.

“His body also was like the beryl, and his face as the appearance of lightning, and his eyes as lamps of fire, and his arms and his feet like in colour to polished brass, and the voice of his words like the voice of a multitude.”
Daniel 10:6 KJV
Meaning
  1. Firefire, flames · supernatural fire (accompanying theophany) · fire (for cooking, roasting, parching) · altar-fire · God's anger (fig.)
How it's translated
  • fire 103
  • with fire 79
  • a fire 45
  • the fire 41
  • in the fire 26
  • and fire 16
  • by fire 8
  • in fire 7

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Ezekiel 38
  • Jeremiah 37
  • Leviticus 30
  • Isaiah 30
  • Deuteronomy 28
  • Psalms 27

33 books in all.

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Explore in Scripture
All 348 verses, by book
1 Samuel 3
30:130:330:14
1 Chronicles 2
14:1221:26
Song of Solomon 1
8:6
Lamentations 4
1:132:32:44:11
Daniel 1
10:6
Hosea 2
7:68:14
Obadiah 1
1:18
Micah 2
1:41:7
Habakkuk 1
2:13
Zephaniah 2
1:183:8
Malachi 1
3:2
Hebrew dictionary

אֵשׁ esh · fire

1) fire 1a) fire, flames 1b) supernatural fire (accompanying theophany) 1c) fire (for cooking, roasting, parching) 1d) altar-fire 1e) God's anger (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: esh (אֶשָּׁא "fire" H0785)

From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

How the English word “fire” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.

FIRE, noun

[The radical sense of fire is usually, to rush, to rage, to be violently agitated; and if this is the sense of fire in coincides with Latin furo. It may be from shining or consuming.]

  1. Heat and light emanating visibly, perceptibly and simultaneously from any body; caloric; the unknown cause of the sensation of heat and of the retrocession of the homogeneous particles of bodies from one another, producing expansion, and thus enlarging all their dimensions; one of the causes of magnetism, as evinced by Dr.
  2. The burning of fuel on a hearth, or in any other place.
  3. The burning of a house or town; a conflagration.
  4. Light; luster; splendor.
All definitions and other forms of “fire”
  1. Torture by burning.
  2. The instrument of punishment; or the punishment of the impenitent in another state.“Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire?” Isaiah 33:14
  3. That which inflames or irritates the passions.
  4. Ardor of temper; violence of passion.
  5. Liveliness of imagination; vigor of fancy; intellectual activity; animation; force of sentiment or expression.
  6. The passion of love; ardent affection.
  7. Ardor; heat; as the fire of zeal or of love.
  8. Combustion; tumult; rage; contention.
  9. Trouble; affliction.“When thou walkest through the fire thou shalt not be burnt” Isaiah 43:2

FIRE, verb transitive

  1. To set on fire; to kindle; as, to fire a house or chimney; to fire a pile.
  2. To inflame; to irritate the passions; as, to fire with anger or revenge.
  3. To animate; to give life or spirit; as, to fire the genius.
  4. To drive by fire [Little used.]
  5. To cause to explode; to discharge; as, to fire a musket or cannon.
  6. To cauterize; a term in farriery.

FIRE, verb intransitive

  1. To take fire; to be kindled.
  2. To be irritated or inflamed with passion.
  3. To discharge artillery or firearms.

Noah Webster, An American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Verse references are checked against the KJV. Read the full entry.

Verses are from the King James Version. Word meanings come from the original Hebrew, not from any one translation.