לַהַבlahab
flame, blade
Pronunciation: lah'-hab · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H3851
Meanings
1. flame (Judges 13:20; Isaiah 29:6; Isaiah 30:30)
2. flashing point, blade (Job 39:23; Nahum 3:3; Judges 3:22)
Same root
Where it appears
Appears 12 times in the Bible.
- Judges 3:22 The dagger went so deep that the handle disappeared beneath the king’s fat. So Ehud did not pull out the dagger, and the king’s bowels emptied.
- Judges 13:20 As the flames from the altar shot up toward the sky, the angel of the Lord ascended in the fire. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell with their faces to the ground.
- Job 39:23 The arrows rattle against it, and the spear and javelin flash.
- Job 41:21 Its breath would kindle coals, for flames shoot from its mouth.
- Isaiah 13:8 and people are terrified. Pangs of anguish grip them, like those of a woman in labor. They look helplessly at one another, their faces aflame with fear.
- Isaiah 29:6 I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, will act for you with thunder and earthquake and great noise, with whirlwind and storm and consuming fire.
Source: Brown, Driver and Briggs, Hebrew and English Lexicon of the Old Testament (1906), public domain; markup by unfoldingWord, CC BY (github.com/unfoldingWord/Brown-Driver-Briggs-Enhanced).