Hebrew noun (feminine) · H3852
לֶהָבָה
lehabahleh-aw-baw'
flame
19 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: lehâbâh
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H3852is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 11 of 39Old Testament books
- 17spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H3852
{a flash; figuratively, a sharply polished blade or point of aweapon}
The King James renders it: flame(-ming), head (of a spear).
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
lehabah is rendered "flame". It stands 19 times in the Hebrew text, across eleven books.
- Five of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Numbers 21:28For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
- The Greek text spells it seventeen different ways.
The first use
For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
Numbers 21:28לֶהָבָ֖ה
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
- flame5
- a flame4
- and a flame2
- and blade of1
- and by flame1
- and flame1
- and like a flame1
- flame of1
- flames1
- flames of1
- into a flame1
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.
The words it stands beside
All 19, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
17 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
- לֶהָבָ֖ה2
- לֶֽהָבָ֑ה2
- וּבְלֶהָבָ֛ה1
- וּ֝כְלֶהָבָ֗ה1
- וְלֶהָבָ֖ה1
- וְלֶֽהָבָה֙1
- וְלֶ֣הָבָ֔ה1
- וְלַהֶ֣בֶת1
- לֶ֝הָבָ֗ה1
- לֶֽהָבָה֙1
- לֶֽהָבָ֔ה1
- לֶהָבָ֗ה1
and 5 more spellings in the ledger below.
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular9HNcfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular3HC/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singular2HC/R/Ncfsa
- conjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HC/Ncfsc
- noun · feminine plural1HNcfpa
- noun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfpc
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)1HNcfsc
- preposition + noun · feminine singular1HR/Ncfsa
Numbers
one use
For a fire went out from Heshbon, a blaze from the city of Sihon. It consumed Ar of Moab, the rulers of Arnon’s heights.
- לֶהָבָ֖הlehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: flame
1 Samuel
one use
The shaft of his spear was like a weaver’s beam, and its iron point weighed six hundred shekels. In addition, his shield bearer went before him.
- וְלַהֶ֣בֶתvelahevetconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: and blade of
Psalms
four uses
The voice of the LORD strikes with flames of fire.
- לַהֲב֥וֹתlahavotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: flames of
As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,
- וּ֝כְלֶהָבָ֗הukhelehavahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and like a flame
He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.
- לֶהָב֣וֹתlehavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: flames
Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.
- לֶ֝הָבָ֗הlehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: flame
Isaiah
five uses
Then the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
- לֶהָבָ֖הlehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a flame
Therefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
- לֶֽהָבָה֙lehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a flame
And the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
- לְלֶהָבָ֑הlelehavahpreposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: into a flame
When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
- וְלֶהָבָ֖הvelehavahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and flame
Surely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
- לֶֽהָבָ֑הlehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: flame
Jeremiah
one use
“Those who flee will stand helpless in Heshbon’s shadow, because fire has gone forth from Heshbon and a flame from within Sihon. It devours the foreheads of Moab and the skulls of the sons of tumult.
- וְלֶֽהָבָה֙velehavahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a flame
Lamentations
one use
In fierce anger He has cut off every horn of Israel and withdrawn His right hand at the approach of the enemy. He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire that consumes everything around it.
- לֶֽהָבָ֔הlehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: flame
Ezekiel
one use
Say to the forest of the Negev: Hear the word of the LORD! This is what the Lord GOD says: I am about to ignite in you a fire, and it will devour all your trees, both green and dry. The blazing flame will not be quenched, and by it every face from south to north will be scorched.
- לַהֶ֣בֶתlahevetnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”)tagged: flame of
Daniel
one use
Those with insight will instruct many, though for a time they will fall by sword or flame, or be captured or plundered.
- וּבְלֶהָבָ֛הuvlehavaconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and by flame
Hosea
one use
For they prepare their heart like an oven while they lie in wait; all night their anger smolders; in the morning it blazes like a flaming fire.
- לֶהָבָֽה׃lehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: flame
Joel
two uses
To You, O LORD, I call, for fire has consumed the open pastures and flames have scorched all the trees of the field.
- וְלֶ֣הָבָ֔הvelehavahconjunction (“and”) + noun · feminine singulartagged: and a flame
Before them a fire devours, and behind them a flame scorches. The land before them is like the Garden of Eden, but behind them, it is like a desert wasteland—surely nothing will escape them.
- לֶֽהָבָ֑הlehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a flame
Obadiah
one use
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.
- לֶהָבָ֗הlehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a flame
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 words it stands beside are the nouns, verbs and adjectives immediately before or after it, counted in every verse where the word stands. The article, the conjunctions and the prepositions are left out, because they stand beside every word.
