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Flame

שְׂבִיבStrong’s H7632

seviv (se-viv)

Appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament

In short

Seviv is the Hebrew word usually translated “flame of”. It appears in 1 verse of the Old Testament.

“Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.”
Job 18:5 KJV
Meaning
  1. Flame
How it's translated
  • flame of 1

Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.

Where it's used most
  • Job 1

1 book in all.

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    Hebrew 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.]

    1. 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.
    2. Fire in general.
    3. Heat of passion; tumult; combustion; blaze; violent contention.
    4. Ardor of temper or imagination; brightness of fancy; vigor of thought.
    All definitions and other forms of “flame”
    1. Ardor of inclination; warmth of affection.
    2. The passion of love; ardent love.
    3. Rage; violence; as the flames of war.

    FLAME, verb transitive

    To inflame; to excite.

      FLAME, verb intransitive

      1. To blaze; to burn in vapor, or in a current; to burn as gas emitted from bodies in combustion.
      2. To shine like burning gas.
      3. 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.