Hebrew noun (masculine) · H3851
לַהַב
lahablah'-hab
flame
12 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3851is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 5 of 39Old Testament books
- 11spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3851
a flash; figuratively, a sharply polished blade or point of aweapon
The King James renders it: blade, bright, flame, glittering.
James Strong, The Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890), public domain. Strong indexed the King James text, and this site quotes his entry as that index.
Summary
lahab is rendered "flame". It stands 12 times in the Hebrew text, across five books.
- Four of the uses stand in Judges, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Judges 3:22Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglon’s bowels emptied.
- The Greek text spells it eleven different ways.
The first use
Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglon’s bowels emptied.
Judges 3:22הַלַּ֗הַב
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- and a flame of2
- the blade2
- a flame of1
- and a flame1
- and blade of1
- blade of1
- flames1
- in flame of1
- the flame1
- with flames of1
The words built on the same word-part
Each word below begins with the same letters this one begins with. A shared word-part shows a family. It does not settle what any one of them means, so each word carries its own uses on its own page. Scholars call that shared part the stem.
All 12, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
11 spellings and their grammar
STEP Bible tags every word of the Hebrew and Greek text with its spelling and its grammar. Both lists below count the rows printed underneath, written out in English, with the code beside each one as it was tagged.
How it is spelled
- וְלַ֖הַב2
- בְּלַ֣הַב1
- בְּלַהֲבֵי־1
- הַלַּ֗הַב1
- הַלַּ֔הַב1
- הַלַּ֜הַב1
- וְ֝לַ֗הַב1
- וְלַ֤הַב1
- לַ֖הַב1
- לַ֣הַב1
- לְהָבִ֖ים1
The grammar of each form
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)3HC/Ncmsc
- the definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singular3HTd/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)2HNcmsc
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular1HC/Ncmsa
- noun · masculine plural1HNcmpa
- preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmpc
- preposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HR/Ncmsc
Judges
four uses
Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglon’s bowels emptied.
- הַלַּ֗הַבhalahavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the blade
- הַלַּ֔הַבhalahavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the blade
When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
- הַלַּ֜הַבhalahavthe definite article (“the”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: the flame
- בְּלַ֣הַבbelahavpreposition + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: in flame of
Job
two uses
A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance.
- לַ֖הַבlahavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: blade of
His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
- וְ֝לַ֗הַבvelahavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singulartagged: and a flame
Isaiah
four uses
Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
- לְהָבִ֖יםlehavimnoun · masculine pluraltagged: flames
you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.
- וְלַ֖הַבvelahavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a flame of
And the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
- וְלַ֖הַבvelahavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and a flame of
For behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
- בְּלַהֲבֵי־belahavei-preposition + noun · masculine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: with flames of
Joel
one use
With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
- לַ֣הַבlahavnoun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: a flame of
Nahum
one use
Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end—they stumble over their dead—
- וְלַ֤הַבvelahavconjunction (“and”) + noun · masculine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and blade of
Where it leads
How the numbers are counted
Every count on this page comes from STEP Bible's tagged Hebrew and Greek text, the same text the ledger prints. A use is counted once each time the tagging marks a word with this key.
Spellings are counted as the Greek text spells them, with the sentence's own punctuation taken off the word first, so a form that ends a clause is not counted as a second spelling.
The family is read from the lexicon by the stem the two words share, with the accents off, and a person or a place named on the stem is left out.