Hebrew noun (masculine) · H6352
פֶּחָם
pechampeh-khawm'
coal
3 uses in the Hebrew text, one for each word STEP Bible has tagged with this key
Concordance spelling: pechâm
Word page · Part of the concordance, one page for every word of the Hebrew and Greek text. Strong's H6352is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 2 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H6352
a coal, whether charred or live
The King James renders it: coals.
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
pecham is rendered "coal". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across two books.
- Two of the uses stand in Isaiah, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Proverbs 26:21Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
Proverbs 26:21פֶּחָ֣ם
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
- charcoal2
- on the coal1
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 3, in canonical order
Every use, in order
Every use, grouped by book, with its verse.
3 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
- בַּפֶּחָ֔ם1
- פֶּחָ֣ם1
- פֶּחָ֔ם1
The grammar of each form
- noun · masculine singular2HNcmsa
- preposition with the article + noun · masculine singular1HRd/Ncmsa
Proverbs
one use
Like charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
- פֶּחָ֣םpechamnoun · masculine singulartagged: charcoal
Isaiah
two uses
The blacksmith takes a tool and labors over the coals; he fashions an idol with hammers and forges it with his strong arms. Yet he grows hungry and loses his strength; he fails to drink water and grows faint.
- בַּפֶּחָ֔םbapechampreposition with the article + noun · masculine singulartagged: on the coal
Behold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
- פֶּחָ֔םpechamnoun · masculine singulartagged: charcoal
The letters
Gematria 128· 688 mispar gadol
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.