Flame
לַ֫הַבStrong’s H3851lahav (la-hav)
Appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Lahav is the Hebrew word usually translated “blade”, “flame of” and “flame”. It appears in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
“And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.”
Meaning
- Flame, bladeflame · of flashing point of spear or blade of sword
How it's translated
- the blade 2
- and a flame of 2
- the flame 1
- in flame of 1
- blade of 1
- and a flame 1
- flames 1
- with flames of 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 4
- Judges 2
- Job 2
- Joel 1
- Nahum 1
5 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Judges 13:20For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.
- Job 39:23The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.
- Job 41:21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.
- Isaiah 13:8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.
- Isaiah 29:6Thou shalt be visited of the LORD of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.
- Isaiah 30:30And the LORD shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.
Hebrew dictionary
לַ֫הַב lahav · flame
1) flame, blade 1a) flame 1b) of flashing point of spear or blade of sword
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.