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אֵשׁ

esh

aysh

Strong's 1890 spelling: ʼêsh

fire (literally or figuratively)

Strong's Dictionary · 1890 · public domain

fire (literally or figuratively)

Rendered in the KJV as

burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.

  • 378
    occurrencesin the Old Testament
  • 33 of 39
    Old Testament bookswhere the word stands
  • 97
    inflected formsdistinct spellings

Across 378 occurrences

The word itself

Inflected forms · 97

  • אֵ֖שׁ29
  • אֵ֣שׁ22
  • אֵשׁ֙22
  • אֵ֔שׁ18
  • בָּאֵ֔שׁ18
  • בָּאֵ֑שׁ17
  • בָּאֵֽשׁ׃17
  • בָּאֵ֖שׁ15
  • אֵֽשׁ׃12
  • הָאֵ֔שׁ10
  • אֵ֑שׁ9
  • הָאֵ֖שׁ9

and 85 more spellings in the ledger below.

How it is rendered · 41

  • fire100
  • with the fire79
  • the fire43
  • a fire40
  • in the fire32
  • and fire16
  • by the fire8
  • like the fire7
  • [the] fire of6
  • [is] a fire3
  • and the fire3
  • in [the] fire of3

The sense the word carries at each spot — how the translators read it there, not a fixed translation.

How it parses · 17

  • noun · masculine or feminine singular145
  • preposition with the article + noun · masculine or feminine singular131
  • the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular43
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular16
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)12
  • preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular10
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)8
  • conjunction (“and”) + the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular3
  • noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine singular2
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
  • conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + pronoun suffix · 3rd person masculine plural1
  • conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · masculine or feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1
Show the grammar codes as tagged
  • HNcbsa · 145
  • HRd/Ncbsa · 131
  • HTd/Ncbsa · 43
  • HC/Ncbsa · 16
  • HR/Ncbsc · 12
  • HR/Ncbsa · 10
  • HNcbsc · 8
  • HC/Td/Ncbsa · 3
  • HNcbsc/Sp3ms · 2
  • HC/Ncbsc · 1
  • HC/Ncbsc/Sp3mp · 1
  • HC/R/Ncbsc · 1

All 378, in canonical order

The ledger of occurrences

Where this word lives

Ezekiel carries the most and opens below; every other book is one click.

Genesis4 occurrences
Exodus19 occurrences
Leviticus32 occurrences
Numbers21 occurrences
Deuteronomy29 occurrences
Joshua8 occurrences
Judges15 occurrences
1 Samuel3 occurrences
2 Samuel6 occurrences
1 Kings10 occurrences
2 Kings17 occurrences
1 Chronicles2 occurrences
2 Chronicles6 occurrences
Nehemiah6 occurrences
Job8 occurrences
Psalms28 occurrences
Proverbs5 occurrences
Song of Solomon1 occurrence
Isaiah33 occurrences
Jeremiah39 occurrences
Lamentations4 occurrences
Ezekiel47 occurrences
Daniel1 occurrence
Hosea2 occurrences
Joel5 occurrences
Amos9 occurrences
Obadiah1 occurrence
Micah2 occurrences
Nahum4 occurrences
Habakkuk1 occurrence
Zephaniah2 occurrences
Zechariah7 occurrences
Malachi1 occurrence

Same headword in Strong's

Hebrew words spelled אֵשׁ

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), CC BY 4.0 — their grammar codes written out in English here, and shown as tagged under each list. Dictionary: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).