אֵשׁ
esh
“fire”
Definition
fire (literally or figuratively)
a primitive word;
- fire 1a) fire, flames 1b) supernatural fire (accompanying theophany) 1c) fire (for cooking, roasting, parching) 1d) altar-fire 1e) God's anger (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: esh (*אֶשָּׁא *"fire" H0785)
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logos (G3056)
word, saying, account
Grammar & Morphology
Noun (Feminine)
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Occurrences
אֵשׁ appears 316 times in the Old Testament.
Distribution by Book
Key Passages
There the Philistines abandoned their gods, and David ordered that they be burned in the fire.
The LORD spoke these commandments in a loud voice to your whole assembly out of the fire, the cloud, and the deep darkness on the mountain; He added nothing more. And He wrote them on two tablets of stone and gave them to me.
When the sun had set and darkness had fallen, behold, a smoking firepot and a flaming torch appeared and passed between the halves of the carcasses.
Then the Chaldeans will return and fight against this city. They will capture it and burn it down.
Meat that touches anything unclean must not be eaten; it is to be burned up. As for any other meat, anyone who is ceremonially clean may eat it.
Lexicon data from STEPBible.org (Tyndale House, Cambridge) under CC BY 4.0 license.