Coal
רֶצֶףStrong’s H7529retseph (re-tseph)
Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament
In short
Retseph is the Hebrew word usually translated “hot coals”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.
“And he looked, and, behold, there was a cake baken on the coals, and a cruse of water at his head. And he did eat and drink, and laid him down again.”
Meaning
- Hot stone, glowing stone or coal, flame, firebolt, spark
How it's translated
- hot coals 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- 1 Kings 1
1 book in all.
Explore in Scripture
Hebrew dictionary
רֶצֶף retseph · coal
hot stone, glowing stone or coal, flame, firebolt, spark Another spelling of rits.pah (רִצְפָּה "glowing stone" H7531B)
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.