אֵשׁ

hebrewOld TestamentNoun · feminine376 occurrences33 books346 verses

Definition

a primitive word; fire (literally or figuratively)
Traditional renderings: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.

In the Greek Old Testament

How the ancient Greek translation of the Old Testament renders אֵשׁ:

Usage patterns

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Occurrences

376 total
  1. Amos 1:7אֵ֖שׁ · fire
    So I will send fire upon the walls of Gaza, to consume its citadels.
  2. Amos 1:10אֵ֖שׁ · fire
    So I will send fire upon the walls of Tyre to consume its citadels.”
  3. Amos 1:12אֵ֖שׁ · fire
    So I will send fire upon Teman to consume the citadels of Bozrah.”
  4. Amos 1:14אֵשׁ֙ · a fire
    So I will kindle a fire in the walls of Rabbah to consume its citadels amid war cries on the day of battle and a violent wind on the day of tempest.
  5. Amos 2:2אֵ֣שׁ · fire
    So I will send fire against Moab to consume the citadels of Kerioth. Moab will die in tumult, amid war cries and the sound of the ram’s horn.
  6. Amos 2:5אֵ֖שׁ · fire
    So I will send fire upon Judah to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.”
  7. Amos 5:6כָּאֵשׁ֙ · like fire
    Seek the LORD and live, or He will sweep like fire through the house of Joseph; it will devour everything, with no one at Bethel to extinguish it.
  8. Amos 7:4בָּאֵ֖שׁ · by fire
    This is what the Lord GOD showed me: The Lord GOD was calling for judgment by fire. It consumed the great deep and devoured the land.
  9. Obadiah 1:18אֵ֜שׁ · a blazing fire
    Then the house of Jacob will be a blazing fire, and the house of Joseph a burning flame; but the house of Esau will be stubble—Jacob will set it ablaze and consume it. Therefore no survivor will remain from the house of Esau.” For the LORD has spoken.
  10. Micah 1:4הָאֵ֔שׁ · the fire
    The mountains will melt beneath Him, and the valleys will split apart, like wax before the fire, like water rushing down a slope.
  11. Micah 1:7בָאֵ֔שׁ · in the fire
    All her carved images will be smashed to pieces; all her wages will be burned in the fire, and I will destroy all her idols. Since she collected the wages of a prostitute, they will be used again on a prostitute.
  12. Nahum 1:6כָאֵ֔שׁ · like fire
    Who can withstand His indignation? Who can endure His burning anger? His wrath is poured out like fire; even rocks are shattered before Him.
  13. Nahum 2:3בְּאֵשׁ־ · flash like fire
    The shields of his mighty men are red; the valiant warriors are dressed in scarlet. The fittings of the chariots flash like fire on the day they are prepared, and the spears of cypress have been brandished.
  14. Nahum 3:13אֵ֖שׁ · fire
    Look at your troops—they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars.
  15. Nahum 3:15אֵ֔שׁ · the fire
    There the fire will devour you; the sword will cut you down and consume you like a young locust. Make yourself many like the young locust; make yourself many like the swarming locust!
  16. Habakkuk 2:13אֵ֔שׁ · the fire
    Is it not indeed from the LORD of Hosts that the labor of the people only feeds the fire, and the nations weary themselves in vain?
  17. Zephaniah 1:18וּבְאֵשׁ֙ · by the fire
    Neither their silver nor their gold will be able to deliver them on the Day of the LORD’s wrath. The whole earth will be consumed by the fire of His jealousy.” For indeed, He will make a sudden end of all who dwell on the earth.
  18. Zephaniah 3:8בְּאֵ֣שׁ · by the fire
    Therefore wait for Me,” declares the LORD, “until the day I rise to testify. For My decision is to gather nations, to assemble kingdoms, to pour out upon them My indignation—all My burning anger. For all the earth will be consumed by the fire of My jealousy.
  19. Zechariah 2:5אֵ֖שׁ · of fire
    For I will be a wall of fire around it, declares the LORD, and I will be the glory within it.’”
  20. Zechariah 3:2מֵאֵֽשׁ׃ · from the fire
    And the LORD said to Satan: “The LORD rebukes you, Satan! Indeed, the LORD, who has chosen Jerusalem, rebukes you! Is not this man a firebrand snatched from the fire?”
  21. Zechariah 9:4בָּאֵ֥שׁ · by fire
    Behold, the Lord will impoverish her and cast her wealth into the sea, and she will be consumed by fire.
  22. Zechariah 11:1אֵ֖שׁ · that the fire
    Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!
  23. Zechariah 12:6אֵ֣שׁ; אֵשׁ֙ · like a flaming
    On that day I will make the clans of Judah like a firepot in a woodpile, like a flaming torch among the sheaves; they will consume all the peoples around them on the right and on the left, while the people of Jerusalem remain secure there.
  24. Zechariah 13:9בָּאֵ֔שׁ · through the fire
    This third I will bring through the fire; I will refine them like silver and test them like gold. They will call on My name, and I will answer them. I will say, ‘They are My people,’ and they will say, ‘The LORD is our God.’”
  25. Malachi 3:2כְּאֵ֣שׁ · fire
    But who can endure the day of His coming? And who can stand when He appears? For He will be like a refiner’s fire, like a launderer’s soap.