רֶשֶׁף
reshef · flame, burning fever
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7565 · appears 7 times in the Bible
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reshef (רֶשֶׁף) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flame, burning fever”.
Also lightning or a live coal.
How to say it
re·shef
Approximate pronunciation. Vowels sound as in Spanish (a as in father, e as in bed, i as in machine, o as in note, u as in rule); the syllable in bold is stressed. The voice is your device's.
Its senses in the Bible
- Fire; lightning bolt; high fever.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- flames ×4
- flame ×2
- burning fever ×1
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Words that come from it
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Deuteronomy 32:24
Wasted by hunger, and devoured by burning fever and bitter plague; and the teeth of beasts I will send against them, with the venom of crawling things of the dust.
- Job 5:7
but the human being is born for suffering, and the sons of the flame fly high.
- Psalms 76:3
There he broke the flames of the bow, the shield and the sword and the war. Selah.
- Psalms 78:48
And he gave over to the hail their cattle, and their herds to the flames.
- Song of Songs 8:6
Set me as a seal on your heart, as a seal on your arm, for strong as death is love, hard as Sheol is jealousy; its flames are flames of fire, a flame of Yah.
- Habakkuk 3:5
Before him goes pestilence, and burning flame goes out behind his feet.
And 1 more times.