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# לֶהָבָה

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H3852

**flame** — used 19 times in the Hebrew Bible. Below: its meanings with their sources, MACULA's glosses, and 2 verses word for word and in JPS 1917.

## Meaning

### OpenScriptures lexical index

flame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3852/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

לֶהָבָה: n.f. id. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3852/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. id.;—ל׳ Nu 21:28 + 13 times, לַהֶ֫בֶת cstr. 1 S 17:7; Ez 21:3; לַבַּת Ex 3:2 (= לַהְבַּת; Sam. להבת, v. Di); pl. לֶהָבוֹת ψ 105:32; cstr. לַהֲבוֹת ψ 29:7;— flame, poet. (‖ or + אֵשׁ, except ψ 29:7 Dn 11:33); of fire consuming (לָהַט) Dathan, etc. ψ 106:18 (cf. Nu 16:35); wasting (לָהַט) mts. 83:15; consuming (אָכַל, בָּעֵר) chaff (in sim.) Is 5:24; of lightning (with hail) אשׁ ל׳ ψ 105:32 (cf. Ex 9:24), ψ 29:7 ל׳ אֵשׁ (on text of v. cf. Che); sim. of judgment, אֵשׁ ל׳ La 2:3 (vb. אָכַל) Ho 7:6 (vb. בָּעֵר) Is 47:14 (מִיַּד ל׳); cf. 10:17; Ob 18; ל׳ שַׁלְה׳ Ez 21:3; fig. of drought Jo 1:19, of locusts’ ravages 2:3 (vb. לָהַט in both); of war Nu 21:28 Je 48:45 (both vb. אָכַל); cf. Dn 11:33 (‖ חֶרֶב), of calamity Is 43:2; symb. נֹגַהּ אֵשׁ ל׳ of י׳’s presence Is 4:5 (cf. Ex 13:21); לַבַּת אֵשׁ Ex 3:2. point, head of spear 1 S 17:7.

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 19 of its verses cited, 0 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (1 candidates); OSHB: headword, part of speech agrees, 1 words shared with the BDB entry, 1 with the glosses (1 candidates)

## Glosses

MACULA's English glosses of the word in the text, with how often each is used: a flame (5); flame (5); of flame (3).

## In the verses

[Psalms 29:7](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.29.7/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.29.7/#tree)

קוֹל־יְהוָ֥ה חֹצֵ֗ב לַהֲב֥וֹת אֵֽשׁ׃

*Word for word:* the.voice of.Yahweh \[is\].striking flames of.fire

*JPS 1917:* The voice of the LORD heweth out flames of fire.

[Psalms 83:15](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.15/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/PSA.83.15/#tree)

כְּאֵ֥שׁ תִּבְעַר־יָ֑עַר וּ֝כְלֶהָבָ֗ה תְּלַהֵ֥ט הָרִֽים׃

*Word for word:* like a.fire \[which\].it.burns a.forest and like a.flame \[which\].it.sets.ablaze mountains

*JPS 1917:* As the fire that burneth the forest, and as the flame that setteth the mountains ablaze;

## On Mova

- [This word in the Tanakh dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/tanakh/w/3852.html) on Mova free.
- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1500/3852/): every English meaning parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.

Sources. The words, their counts, glosses and the word-for-word renderings: MACULA Hebrew (the Westminster Leningrad Codex; Clear Bible, CC BY 4.0). Meanings: the OpenScriptures lexical index (CC BY 4.0), Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906 and Jastrow 1903 (public domain, via Sefaria); Targum Onkelos from Sefaria (public domain). Translation: JPS 1917 (public domain, from eBible.org).