Flame
לַבָּהStrong’s H3827labbah (lab-bah)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Labbah is the Hebrew word usually translated “flame of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.”
Meaning
- Flame
- Tip of weapon, point, head of spear
How it's translated
- in a flame of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Exodus 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
לַבָּה labbah · flame
1) flame 2) tip of weapon, point, head of spear
From STEPBible’s Hebrew lexicon (based on Brown-Driver-Briggs).
Webster's 1828 Dictionary
How the English word “flame” was understood when the King James Version was still the common Bible of English readers.
FLAME, noun
[Latin flamma.]
- A blaze; burning vapor; vapor in combustion; or according to modern chimistry, hydrogen or any inflammable gas, in a state of combustion, and naturally ascending in a stream from burning bodies being specifically lighter than common air.
- Fire in general.
- Heat of passion; tumult; combustion; blaze; violent contention.
- Ardor of temper or imagination; brightness of fancy; vigor of thought.
All definitions and other forms of “flame”
- Ardor of inclination; warmth of affection.
- The passion of love; ardent love.
- Rage; violence; as the flames of war.
FLAME, verb transitive
To inflame; to excite.
FLAME, verb intransitive
- To blaze; to burn in vapor, or in a current; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion.
- To shine like burning gas.
- To break out in violence of passion.
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.