Hebrew noun (feminine) · H7957
שַׁלְהֶבֶת
shalhebethshal-heh'-beth
flame
3 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 H7957is this word's number in James Strong's 1890 index of the King James Bible.
- 3 of 39Old Testament books
- 3spellings
The definition in full
Strong's key (1890) · H7957
a flare of fire
The King James renders it: (flaming) flame.
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
shalhebeth is rendered "flame". It stands 3 times in the Hebrew text, across three books.
- One of the uses stand in Job, more than in any other book.
- Its first use in canonical order opens the ledger below.Job 15:30He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
- The Greek text spells it three different ways.
The first use
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
Job 15:30שַׁלְהָ֑בֶת
The first use, in the order of the Old Testament's books.
Where the word stands
One of the word's three uses is in Job.
What the word means
Each meaning, and the words it is translated by
How the Greek text is glossed, word by word
- a flame1
- a flame of Lord1
- 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.
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
- שַׁלְהֶ֔בֶת1
- שַׁלְהָ֑בֶת1
- שַׁלְהֶ֥בֶתְיָֽה׃1
The grammar of each form
- noun · feminine singular2HNcfsa
- noun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + proper noun (a name)1HNcfsc/Npt
Job
one use
He will not escape from the darkness; the flame will wither his shoots, and the breath of God’s mouth will carry him away.
- שַׁלְהָ֑בֶתshalhavetnoun · feminine singulartagged: a flame
Song of Solomon
one use
Set me as a seal over your heart, as a seal upon your arm. For love is as strong as death, its jealousy as unrelenting as Sheol. Its sparks are fiery flames, the fiercest blaze of all.
- שַׁלְהֶ֥בֶתְיָֽה׃shalhevetyahnoun · feminine singular · in construct (“…of”) + proper noun (a name)tagged: a flame of Lord
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.
- שַׁלְהֶ֔בֶתshalhevetnoun · feminine singulartagged: 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 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.