Flame
שְׂבִיבStrong’s H7631seviv (se-viv)
Appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Seviv is the Aramaic word usually translated “flame the” and “flames”. It appears in 2 verses of the Old Testament.
“Therefore because the king’s commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.”
Meaning
- Flame
How it's translated
- flame the 1
- flames 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Daniel 2
1 book in all.
Aramaic dictionary
שְׂבִיב seviv · flame
flame Aramaic of sha.viv (שָׁבִיב "flame" H7632)
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 Aramaic, not from any one translation.