Flame
שַׁלְהֶ֫בֶתStrong’s H7957shalhevet (shal-he-vet)
Appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament
In short
Shalhevet is the Hebrew word usually translated “flame” and “flame of lord”. It appears in 3 verses of the Old Testament.
“He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.”
Meaning
- Flame
How it's translated
- a flame 1
- a flame of lord 1
- flame 1
Word-by-word English from the STEPBible tagged text.
Where it's used most
- Job 1
- Song of Solomon 1
- Ezekiel 1
3 books in all.
Explore in Scripture
- Song of Solomon 8:6Set me as a seal upon thine heart, as a seal upon thine arm: for love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave: the coals thereof are coals of fire, which hath a most vehement flame.
- Ezekiel 20:47And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green tree in thee, and every dry tree: the flaming flame shall not be quenched, and all faces from the south to the north shall be burned therein.
Hebrew dictionary
שַׁלְהֶ֫בֶת shalhevet · flame
flame
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.