אֵשׁʼêsh

אֵשׁ: fire

Pronunciation: aysh · Hebrew/Aramaic (Old Testament) · H784

Meanings

1. fire (Exodus 22:5; Exodus 3:2; Exodus 32:20)

2. of supernatural fire, attending theophany (Exodus 3:2; Exodus 19:18; Deuteronomy 4:11)

3. fire for cooking, roasting, parching, etc. (Exodus 12:8; Exodus 12:9; Leviticus 2:14)

4. especially of altar-fire (Leviticus 1:7; Leviticus 6:2; Leviticus 6:3)

5. figurative of Yahweh's anger (Psalms 89:47; Nahum 1:6; Lamentations 2:4)

6. in various combinations (Genesis 15:17; Exodus 3:2; Joel 2:5)

אֵשׁ: fire (Daniel 7:11)

Same root

Where it appears

Appears 378 times in the Bible.

  • Genesis 15:17 After the sun went down and darkness fell, Abram saw a smoking firepot and a flaming torch pass between the halves of the carcasses.
  • Genesis 19:24 Then the Lord rained down fire and burning sulfur from the sky on Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • Genesis 22:6 So Abraham placed the wood for the burnt offering on Isaac’s shoulders, while he himself carried the fire and the knife. As the two of them walked on together,
  • Genesis 22:7 Isaac turned to Abraham and said, “Father?” “Yes, my son?” Abraham replied. “We have the fire and the wood,” the boy said, “but where is the sheep for the burnt offering?”
  • Exodus 3:2 There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a blazing fire from the middle of a bush. Moses stared in amazement. Though the bush was engulfed in flames, it didn’t burn up.
  • Exodus 9:23 So Moses lifted his staff toward the sky, and the Lord sent thunder and hail, and lightning flashed toward the earth. The Lord sent a tremendous hailstorm against all the land of Egypt.
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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).