Coal
פֶּחָםStrong’s H6352pecham (pe-cham)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Pecham is the Hebrew word usually translated “charcoal” and “on the coal”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“As coals are to burning coals, and wood to fire; so is a contentious man to kindle strife.”
Meaning
- Coal, charcoal, ember
How it's translated
- charcoal 2
- on the coal 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Isaiah 2
- Proverbs 1
2 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Isaiah 44:12The smith with the tongs both worketh in the coals, and fashioneth it with hammers, and worketh it with the strength of his arms: yea, he is hungry, and his strength faileth: he drinketh no water, and is faint.
- Isaiah 54:16Behold, I have created the smith that bloweth the coals in the fire, and that bringeth forth an instrument for his work; and I have created the waster to destroy.
Hebrew dictionary
פֶּחָם pecham · coal
coal, charcoal, ember
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.