Coal
גַּחֶ֫לֶתStrong’s H1513gechel (ge-chel)
Appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Gechel is the Hebrew word usually translated “coals of”, “coals” and “burning coals”. It appears in 18 verses of the Old Testament.
“And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it within the vail:”
Meaning
- Coal, burning coal, coals of fire, hot coals
How it's translated
- coals of 3
- coals 3
- burning coals 3
- and coals of 2
- coal my 1
- burning coals of 1
- to burning coals 1
- coals its 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Psalms 5
- 2 Samuel 3
- Proverbs 3
- Ezekiel 3
- Isaiah 2
- Leviticus 1
7 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- 2 Samuel 14:7And, behold, the whole family is risen against thine handmaid, and they said, Deliver him that smote his brother, that we may kill him, for the life of his brother whom he slew; and we will destroy the heir also: and so they shall quench my coal which is left, and shall not leave to my husband neither name nor remainder upon the earth.
- 2 Samuel 22:9There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
- 2 Samuel 22:13Through the brightness before him were coals of fire kindled.
- Job 41:21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
- Psalms 18:8There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
- Psalms 18:12At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
Hebrew dictionary
גַּחֶ֫לֶת gechel · coal
coal, burning coal, coals of fire, hot coals
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “coal” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
COAL, noun
- A piece of wood, or other combustible substance, ignited, burning, or charred.
- In the language of chimists, any substance containing oil, which has been exposed to a fire in a close vessel, so that its volatile matter is expelled, and it can sustain a red heat without further decomposition.
- In mineralogy, a solid, opake, inflammable substance, found in the earth, and by way of distinction called fossil coal It is divided by recent mineralogists into three species, anthracite or glance coal black or bituminous coal and brown coal or lignite; under which are included many varieties, such as cannel coal bovey coal jet, etc.
All definitions and other forms of “coal”
COAL, verb transitive
- To burn to coal or charcoal; to char.
- To mark or delineate with charcoal.
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.