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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 39
    Old Testament books
  • 17
    spellings

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

Five of the word's nineteen uses are in Isaiah.

The other 28 Old Testament books never use the word.

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.

    Numbers 21:28

    • 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.

    1 Samuel 17:7

    • 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.

    Psalms 29:7

    • לַהֲב֥וֹתlahavotnoun · feminine plural · in construct (“…of”)tagged: flames of
  • As fire consumes a forest, as a flame sets the mountains ablaze,

    Psalms 83:14

    • וּ֝כְלֶהָבָ֗הukhelehavahconjunction (“and”) + preposition + noun · feminine singulartagged: and like a flame
  • He gave them hail for rain, with lightning throughout their land.

    Psalms 105:32

    • לֶהָב֣וֹתlehavotnoun · feminine pluraltagged: flames
  • Then fire blazed through their company; flames consumed the wicked.

    Psalms 106:18

    • 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,

    Isaiah 4:5

    • 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.

    Isaiah 5:24

    • 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.

    Isaiah 10:17

    • 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.

    Isaiah 43:2

    • 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.

    Isaiah 47:14

    • 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.

    Jeremiah 48:45

    • 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.

    Lamentations 2:3

    • 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.

    Ezekiel 20:47

    • 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.

    Daniel 11:33

    • 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.

    Hosea 7:6

    • 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.

    Joel 1:19

    • 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.

    Joel 2:3

    • 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.

    Obadiah 1:18

    • לֶהָבָ֗הlehavahnoun · feminine singulartagged: a flame

The letters

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.

Hebrew and Greek text, word tagging and grammar: STEP Bible (www.STEPBible.org), Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0. Their grammar codes are written out in English here and shown as tagged beside each one.

Meaning and senses: STEP Bible TBESH gloss (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Dictionary key: Strong's Exhaustive Concordance of the Bible (1890, public domain). English verse text: Berean Standard Bible (public domain, 2023).

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