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Lexicon :: Strong's H784 - 'ēš

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אֵשׁ
Transliteration
'ēš
Pronunciation
aysh
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Part of Speech
feminine noun
Root Word (Etymology)
A primitive word
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TWOT Reference: 172

Strong’s Definitions

אֵשׁ ʼêsh, aysh; a primitive word; fire (literally or figuratively):—burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 379x

The KJV translates Strong's H784 in the following manner: fire (373x), burning (1x), fiery (1x), untranslated variant (1x), fire (with H800) (1x), flaming (1x), hot (1x).

KJV Translation Count — Total: 379x
The KJV translates Strong's H784 in the following manner: fire (373x), burning (1x), fiery (1x), untranslated variant (1x), fire (with H800) (1x), flaming (1x), hot (1x).
  1. fire

    1. fire, flames

    2. supernatural fire (accompanying theophany)

    3. fire (for cooking, roasting, parching)

    4. altar-fire

    5. God's anger (fig.)

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
אֵשׁ ʼêsh, aysh; a primitive word; fire (literally or figuratively):—burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
STRONGS H784: Abbreviations
אֵשׁ 377 noun feminineExodus 9:23 (masculineJeremiah 48:45; Psalm 104:4; **masculine is dubious: Numbers 16:18 read עָלֶיהָ for 2nd עֲלֵיהֶם (Greek Version of the LXX B); Jeremiah 20:9 see Ges§ 132 d; Jeremiah 48:45 read (many MSS., Numbers 21:23) יצאה; Psalm 104:4 read perhaps (Ol Du): לֵֹֽֽֽהטָה, or וָלָֽחַט; Job 20:26 see Ges§ 145 u (or 121 b): compare AlbrZAW xvi {1896}. 63; Feminine & masculineJeremiah 20:9; Job 20:26) fire (Assyrian išatu COTGloss, Syriac aXtxwAe  , Ethiopic አላት፡ derivatives from II. אנשׁ, أَنَسَ, sociable, friendly element (MV Wetzst in DePsalmen, ed. 4, p. 888 LagBN 68 compare انيسة, مانوسة), improbable especially in view of Assyrian; daghesh probably secondary; compare also Sta§ 189 b) — א׳ absolute Exodus 9:24 +; construct Leviticus 6:2 + (seldom); suffix אִשּׁוֺ Deuteronomy 4:36; Job 18:5; אֶשְׁכֶם Isaiah 50:11; אִשָּׁם Isaiah 66:24; —
1. fire, of conflagration, e.g. in briers, endangering or destroying crops תֵּצֵא אֵשׁ וּמָֽצְאָה קֹצִים Exodus 22:5; compare Exodus 3:2 הַסְּנֶה בֹּעֵר בָּאֵשׁ (both E); more often of deliberate destruction by fire, especially שָׂרַף בָּאֵשׁ (בָּ with qam. preton.) object golden calf Exodus 32:20 (J), other idols Deuteronomy 7:5, 25, Asherim Deuteronomy 12:3, chariots Joshua 11:6, 9; 2 Kings 23:1, house Judges 12:1; Judges 14:15, tower Judges 9:52, city-gates Nehemiah 1:3; Nehemiah 2:3, 13, 17, city Joshua 6:24; Judges 18:27 compare Isaiah 1:7 +; also שִׁלַּח אֵשׁ בְּ Amos 1:4, 7, 10 +; שִׁלַּח אֶת־הָעִיר בָּאֵשׁJudges 1:8; Judges 20:48 compare 2 Kings 8:12; הִצִּית אֶת־הָעִיר בָּאֵשׁ Joshua 8:8, 19; Jeremiah 17:27 +, compare Judges 9:49; 2 Samuel 14:30, 31 (of field, compare Exodus 22:5 above)
2. of supernatural fire, attending theophany Exodus 3:2; Exodus 19:18 (both J E) Deuteronomy 4:11, 12, 15, 33, 36 +; specifically עַמּוּד (הָ)אֵשׁ Exodus 13:21, 22; Exodus 14:24 (all J E) Nehemiah 9:12, 19 compare Deuteronomy 1:33 (see מַרְאֵה־אֵשׁ Numbers 9:15, 16 P); of destructive fire from י׳ Numbers 11:1, 2, 3 (J) Numbers 26:10 (P) Leviticus 10:2 (P); compare אֹכֶלָת א׳ in simile of Yahweh's glory Exodus 24:17 (E) Deuteronomy 4:24; Deuteronomy 9:3; see also 1 Kings 18:24, 38; 2 Kings 1:10 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 1:12 (twice in verse); 2 Kings 1:14; Job 1:16 (perhaps lightning intended), compare further of lightning Exodus 9:23, 24 (JE) Psalm 18:13; Psalm 18:14; Psalm 148:8 etc.
3. fire for cooking, roasting, parching, etc. צְלִי אֵשׁ roasted at a fire Exodus 12:8, 9 (P) compare Leviticus 2:14; 2 Chronicles 35:13; Isaiah 44:16, 19; of tinder for lighting fire Genesis 22:6, 7 (E); of fire for melting (gold for the idolatrous calf) Exodus 32:24; for refining Jeremiah 6:29, where read with Qr מֵאֵשׁ תַּם עֹפֶרֶת; compare Malachi 3:2 (simile of purifying work of messenger of cov't).
4. especially of altar-fire Leviticus 1:7 (twice in verse); Leviticus 6:2; Leviticus 6:3; Leviticus 6:5; Leviticus 6:6 +; in offering incense Leviticus 10:1, also אֵשׁ זָרָה strange fire, i.e. an incense not commanded, offered presumptuously Leviticus 10:1; Numbers 3:4; Numbers 26:61; fire from י׳ consuming sacrifice (compare 2) Leviticus 9:24; 2 Chronicles 7:1, 3; of fire in child-sacrifice (usually הֶעֱבִיר בֵּן בָּאֵשׁ (לְׅ)) 2 Kings 16:3; 2 Kings 21:6; compare 2 Kings 17:17; 2 Kings 23:10; 2 Chronicles 33:6; also שׂרף בָּא׳ 2 Kings 17:31, בער בָּא׳ 2 Chronicles 28:3.
5. figurative of Yahweh's anger Psalm 89:47 (simile) compare Nahum 1:6; Lamentations 2:4 אֵשׁ־עֶבְרָתִי Ezekiel 21:36; Ezekiel 22:31; Ezekiel 38:19, אֵשׁ־קִנְאָתִי Ezekiel 36:5; see also Isaiah 66:15; Psalm 79:5; Psalm 89:47 etc.; of word of י׳ Jeremiah 23:29; figurative of outbursting emotion Psalm 39:4; of flagrant wickedness Isaiah 9:17, etc:
6. in various combinations, אֵש לַפִּיד Genesis 15:17 (J) a torch of fire (compare Di); לַבַּת־אֵשׁ Exodus 3:2 flame of fire, לַהַב אֵשׁ Joel 2:5, אֵשׁ לַפִּידֵי (in simile) Daniel 10:6 compare Zechariah 12:6, לַהֲבוֺת אֵשׁ Psalm 29:7 לַהֲבֵי אֵשׁ Isaiah 66:15 compare לְהָבוֺת א׳ Psalm 105:32, לָהָבָה נֹגַהּ א׳ Isaiah 4:5 compare Hosea 7:6; שְׁבִיב אִשּׁוֺ spark of his fire Job 18:5 compare כִּידוֺדֵי אֵשׁ Job 41:11; תַּנּוּר אֵשׁ Psalm 21:10 oven of fire, כִּיּוֺר אֵשׁ Zechariah 12:6; אוֺר אֵשׁ light of fire Psalm 78:14; אֵשׁ לֹהֵט flaming fire Psalm 104:4; לְשׁוֺן אֵשׁ Isaiah 5:24 tongue of fire, גַּחֲלֵי אֵשׁ Ezekiel 1:13 coals of fire, so Ezekiel 10:2, compare רִשְׁמֵּי אֵשׁ Songs 8:6; on אַבְנֵי אֵשׁ Ezekiel 28:14, 16 see אֶבֶן; אֵשׁ דַּת [H799 Deuteronomy 33:2], literally fire of a law, or fire was a law, but דָּת law is Persian & late; read perhaps דֹת [לַפִּ] אֵשׁ compare Exodus 20:18 or דֶת [יֹקֶ] אֵשׁ compare Isaiah 65:5.

See related Aramaic BDB entry H785.
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

15:17; 22:6; 22:7

Exodus

3:2; 3:2; 3:2; 9:23; 9:23; 9:24; 9:24; 12:8; 12:9; 13:21; 13:22; 14:24; 19:18; 20:18; 22:5; 22:5; 24:17; 32:20; 32:24

Leviticus

1:7; 2:14; 6:2; 6:2; 6:3; 6:5; 6:6; 9:24; 10:1; 10:1; 10:2

Numbers

3:4; 9:15; 9:16; 11:1; 11:2; 11:3; 16:18; 21:23; 26:10; 26:61

Deuteronomy

1:33; 4:11; 4:12; 4:15; 4:24; 4:33; 4:36; 4:36; 7:5; 7:25; 9:3; 12:3

Joshua

6:24; 8:8; 8:19; 11:6; 11:9

Judges

1:8; 9:49; 9:52; 12:1; 14:15; 18:27; 20:48

2 Samuel

14:30; 14:31

1 Kings

18:24; 18:38

2 Kings

1:10; 1:12; 1:14; 8:12; 16:3; 17:17; 17:31; 21:6; 23:1; 23:10

2 Chronicles

7:1; 7:3; 28:3; 33:6; 35:13

Nehemiah

1:3; 2:3; 2:13; 2:17; 9:12; 9:19

Job

1:16; 18:5; 18:5; 20:26; 20:26; 41:11

Psalms

18:13; 18:14; 21:10; 29:7; 39:4; 78:14; 79:5; 89:47; 89:47; 104:4; 104:4; 104:4; 105:32; 148:8

Song of Songs

8:6

Isaiah

1:7; 4:5; 5:24; 9:17; 44:16; 44:19; 50:11; 65:5; 66:15; 66:15; 66:24

Jeremiah

6:29; 17:27; 20:9; 20:9; 23:29; 48:45; 48:45

Lamentations

2:4

Ezekiel

1:13; 10:2; 22:31; 28:14; 28:16; 36:5; 38:19

Daniel

10:6

Hosea

7:6

Joel

2:5

Amos

1:4; 1:7; 1:10

Nahum

1:6

Zechariah

12:6; 12:6

Malachi

3:2

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H784 matches the Hebrew אֵשׁ ('ēš),
which occurs 378 times in 348 verses in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 3 / 7 (Jos 7:15–2Ki 25:9)

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:15 - ‘And it will be that the one who is taken with the things devoted to destruction shall be burned with fire H784, he and all that belongs to him, because he has trespassed against the covenant of Yahweh, and because he has committed a disgraceful thing in Israel.’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 7:25 - And Joshua said, “Why have you troubled us? Yahweh will trouble you this day.” And all Israel stoned him with stones; and they burned them with fire H784 [fn]after they had stoned them with stones.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:8 - “Then it will be that when you have seized the city, that you shall set the city on fire H784. You shall do it according to the word of Yahweh. See, I have commanded you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 8:19 - Then the men in ambush rose quickly from their place, and when he had stretched out his hand, they ran and entered the city and captured it, and they quickly set the city on fire H784.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:6 -

Then Yahweh said to Joshua, “Do not be afraid because of them, for tomorrow at this time I will give all of them over, slain, before Israel; you shall hamstring their horses and burn their chariots with fire H784.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:9 - And Joshua did to them as Yahweh had said to him; he hamstrung their horses and burned their chariots with fire H784.
Unchecked Copy BoxJos 11:11 - And they struck every person who was in it with the edge of the sword, [fn]devoting them to destruction; there was no one left who breathed. And he burned Hazor with fire H784.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 1:8 -

Then the sons of Judah fought against Jerusalem and captured it and struck it with the edge of the sword and set the city on fire H784.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 6:21 - Then the angel of Yahweh put out the end of the staff that was in his hand and touched the meat and the unleavened bread; and fire H784 sprang up from the rock and consumed the meat and the unleavened bread. Then the angel of Yahweh went away from before his eyes.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:15 - “And the bramble said to the trees, ‘If in [fn]truth you are anointing me as king over you, come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, may fire H784 come out from the bramble and consume the cedars of Lebanon.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:20 - “But if not, let fire H784 come out from Abimelech and consume the lords of Shechem and [fn]Beth-millo; and let fire H784 come out from the lords of Shechem and from [fn]Beth-millo and consume Abimelech.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:49 - And all the people also cut down each one his branch and followed Abimelech and put them on the inner chamber and set the inner chamber on fire H784 over those inside, so that all the men of the tower of Shechem also died, about one thousand men and women.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 9:52 - So Abimelech came to the tower and fought against it and approached the entrance of the tower to burn it with fire H784.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 12:1 -

Then the men of Ephraim were summoned, and they crossed [fn]to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, “Why did you cross over to fight against the sons of Ammon, but did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house down on you.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 14:15 -

Then it happened on the [fn]fourth day that they said to Samson’s wife, “Entice your husband, so that he will tell us the riddle, or we will burn you and your father’s house with fire H784. Have you invited us to impoverish us? Is this not so?”

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:5 - Then he set fire H784 to the torches and sent [fn]the foxes into the standing grain of the Philistines. So he caused both the shocks and the standing grain, along with the vineyards and groves, to burn.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:6 - Then the Philistines said, “Who did this?” And they said, “Samson, the son-in-law of the Timnite, because [fn]he took his wife and gave her to his companion.” So the Philistines came up and burned her and her father with fire H784.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 15:14 -

When he came to Lehi, the Philistines shouted as they met him. And the Spirit of Yahweh [fn]came upon him mightily so that the ropes that were on his arms were as flax that is burned with fire H784, and his bonds [fn]dropped from his hands.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 16:9 - Now she had men lying in wait, sitting in an inner room. And she said to him, “The Philistines are upon you, Samson!” But he snapped the cords as a string of tinder snaps when it [fn]touches fire H784. So his strength was still not known.
Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 18:27 -

Now they took what Micah had made and the priest who had belonged to him, and they came to Laish, to a people quiet and secure, and struck them with the edge of the sword; and they burned the city with fire H784.

Unchecked Copy BoxJdg 20:48 - Now the men of Israel returned to the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword, both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found; they also set on fire H784 all the cities which they found.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:1 -

Then it happened when David and his men came to Ziklag on the third day, that the Amalekites had made a raid on the [fn]Negev and on Ziklag and had struck Ziklag and burned it with fire H784;

Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:3 - Then David and his men came to the city, and behold, it was burned with fire H784, and their wives and their sons and their daughters had been taken captive.
Unchecked Copy Box1Sa 30:14 - “We made a raid on the [fn]Negev of the Cherethites and on that which belongs to Judah and on the [fn]Negev of Caleb, and we burned Ziklag with fire H784.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:30 - Therefore he said to his servants, “See, Joab’s portion of land is next to mine, and he has barley there; go and set it on fire H784.” So Absalom’s servants set the portion of land on fire H784.
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 14:31 - Then Joab arose, came to Absalom at his house and said to him, “Why have your servants set my portion of land on fire H784?”
Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:9 -

“Smoke went up [fn]out of His nostrils,

And fire H784 from His mouth devoured;

Coals were kindled by it.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 22:13 -

“From the brightness before Him

Coals of fire H784 were kindled.

Unchecked Copy Box2Sa 23:7 -

But the man who touches them

Must be [fn]armed with iron and the shaft of a spear,

And they will be completely burned with fire H784 where they sit.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 9:16 - For Pharaoh king of Egypt had gone up and captured Gezer and burned it with fire H784, and killed the Canaanites who lived in the city, and had given it as a dowry to his daughter, Solomon’s wife.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 16:18 - Now it happened that when Zimri saw that the city was captured, he went into the citadel of the king’s house and burned the king’s house over him with fire H784, and died,
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:23 - “Now let them give us two oxen; and let them choose one ox for themselves and cut it up, and place it on the wood, but place no fire H784 under it; and I will prepare the other ox and put it on the wood, and I will not place fire H784 under it.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:24 - “Then you call on the name of your god, and I will call on the name of Yahweh, and the God who answers by fire H784, He is God.” And all the people answered and said, “[fn]That is a good word.”
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:25 -

So Elijah said to the prophets of Baal, “Choose one ox for yourselves and prepare it first for you are many, and call on the name of your god, but place no fire H784 under it.”

Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 18:38 - Then the fire H784 of Yahweh fell and consumed the burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust, and licked up the water that was in the trench.
Unchecked Copy Box1Ki 19:12 - Then after the earthquake a fire H784, but Yahweh was not in the fire H784; and after the fire H784 a sound of a thin [fn]gentle whisper.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:10 - And Elijah answered and spoke to the commander of fifty, “If I am a man of God, let fire H784 come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then fire H784 came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:12 - And Elijah answered and spoke to them, “If I am a man of God, let fire H784 come down from heaven and consume you and your fifty.” Then the fire H784 of God came down from heaven and consumed him and his fifty.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 1:14 - “Behold, fire H784 came down from heaven and consumed the first two commanders of fifty with their fifties; but now let my [fn]life be precious in your sight.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 2:11 - As they were going along and talking, behold, there appeared a chariot of fire H784 and horses of fire H784, and it separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a [fn]whirlwind to heaven.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 6:17 - Then Elisha prayed and said, “O Yahweh, I pray, open his eyes that he may see.” And Yahweh opened the eyes of the young man and he saw; and behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire H784 all around Elisha.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 8:12 - Then Hazael said, “Why does my lord weep?” Then he said, “Because I know the evil that you will do to the sons of Israel: their fortifications you will set on fire H784, and their young men you will kill with the sword, and their infants you will dash in pieces, and their pregnant women you will rip up.”
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 16:3 - But he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, and even made his son pass through the fire H784, according to the abominations of the nations whom Yahweh had dispossessed from before the sons of Israel.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:17 - Then they made their sons and their daughters pass through the fire H784, and practiced divination and omens, and sold themselves to do what is evil in the sight of Yahweh, provoking Him to anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 17:31 - and the Avvites made Nibhaz and Tartak; and the Sepharvites burned their children in the fire H784 to Adrammelech and Anammelech, the gods of the Sepharvaim.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 19:18 - and have put their gods into the fire H784, for they were not gods but the work of men’s hands, wood and stone. So they have destroyed them.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 21:6 - He even made his son pass through the fire H784, practiced soothsaying and interpreted omens, and dealt with mediums and spiritists. He did much that was evil in the sight of Yahweh provoking Him to anger.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:10 - He also defiled [fn]Topheth, which is in the valley of the son of Hinnom, that no man might make his son or his daughter pass through the fire H784 for Molech.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 23:11 - And he did away with the horses which the kings of Judah had given to the sun, at the entrance of the house of Yahweh, by the chamber of Nathan-melech the official, which was in the precincts; and he burned the chariots of the sun with fire H784.
Unchecked Copy Box2Ki 25:9 - And he burned the house of Yahweh, the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem; even every great house he burned with fire H784.

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