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# שַׁלְהֶבֶת

Biblical Hebrew · Strong's H7957

**flame** — used 2 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/1513/7957/#m1)

### Brown–Driver–Briggs 1906

שַׁלְהֶ֫בֶת: n.f. flame [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7957/#m2)

**The whole BDB entry:** n.f. flame (Aramaic שַׁלְהוֹבִיתָא, ܫܰܠܗܶܒܺܝܬܳܐ )—in לַהֶבֶת שׁ׳ Ez 21:3, of judgment; so שַׁלְהָ֑בֶת Jb 15:30; רִשְׁפֵּי אֵשׁ שַׁלְהֶבֶתְיָה Ct 8:6 i.e. Yahweh-flame = powerful flame (\> JägerBAS i.471 JastrowJBL xiii (1894), 111 expl. ־יָה here as encl. part.)

Why these entries: BDB: headword, part of speech agrees, 2 of its verses cited, 1 words shared with the glosses, lists its Strong's number (2 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 (1); of flame (1).

## In the verses

[Job 15:30](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.30/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/ketuvim/JOB.15.30/#tree)

לֹֽא־יָס֨וּר ׀ מִנִּי־חֹ֗שֶׁךְ יֹֽ֭נַקְתּוֹ תְּיַבֵּ֣שׁ שַׁלְהָ֑בֶת וְ֝יָס֗וּר בְּר֣וּחַ פִּֽיו׃

*Word for word:* not he.will.depart from darkness shoot\[s\] his.young it.will.dry.up a.flame and he.will.depart by the.breath his.mouth his

*JPS 1917:* 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.

[Ezekiel 21:3](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.3/) · [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/neviim/EZK.21.3/#tree)

וְאָֽמַרְתָּ֙ לְיַ֣עַר הַנֶּ֔גֶב שְׁמַ֖ע דְּבַר־יְהוָ֑ה כֹּֽה־אָמַ֣ר אֲדֹנָ֣י יְהוִ֡ה הִנְנִ֣י מַֽצִּית־בְּךָ֣ ׀ אֵ֡שׁ וְאָכְלָ֣ה בְךָ֣ כָל־עֵֽץ־לַח֩ וְכָל־עֵ֨ץ יָבֵ֤שׁ לֹֽא־תִכְבֶּה֙ לַהֶ֣בֶת שַׁלְהֶ֔בֶת וְנִצְרְבוּ־בָ֥הּ כָּל־פָּנִ֖ים מִנֶּ֥גֶב צָפֽוֹנָה׃

*Word for word:* and you.will.say to the.forest of the.south hear the.word of.Yahweh thus he.says Lord \[the\] Yahweh here I \[am\].about.to.kindle in you a.fire and it.will.consume in you every tree moist and every tree dry not it.will.be.extinguished \[the\].flame of.flame and they.will.be.scorched by it all faces from.\[the\] south north to.\[the\]

*JPS 1917:* and 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, it shall not be quenched, even a flaming flame; and all faces from the south to the north shall be seared thereby.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of its meanings](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/tanakh/1513/7957/): 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).