lahav · blade, flame

What it means

lahav (לַהַב) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “blade, flame”.

Blade of a weapon, the flashing point; also flame.

How to say it

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

1. Fire that rises and shines, often the fire of God's anger.
2. The gleaming edge of a weapon.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.

• flame ×8
• blade ×2
• flames ×2

Related words

Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.

Where it appears

• Judges×4
• Job×2
• Isaiah×4
• Joel×1
• Nahum×1

• Judges 3:22

  The hilt also went in after the blade, and the fat closed over the blade, for he did not pull the sword out of his belly; and the excrement came out.

• Judges 13:20

  And it happened, as the flame went up from on the altar toward the heavens, that the angel of YHWH went up in the flame of the altar, while Manoah and his wife were watching; and they fell on their faces to the ground.

• Job 39:23

  Upon him rattles the quiver, the flame of the spear and the javelin.

• Job 41:21

  Its breath kindles coals, and a flame from its mouth comes out.

• Isaiah 13:8

  And they will be terrified; pangs and pains will seize them; like a woman giving birth they will writhe; each at his neighbor will stare in amazement; faces of flames are their faces.

• Isaiah 29:6

  From YHWH Tsevaot she will be visited with thunder and with earthquake and a great noise, whirlwind and tempest and the flame of a devouring fire.

• Isaiah 30:30

  And YHWH will make heard the splendor of his voice, and the descent of his arm he will show, with raging anger and the flame of a devouring fire, cloudburst and downpour and stones of hail.

• Isaiah 66:15

  For look, YHWH will come in fire, and his chariots like the whirlwind, to pay back his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.

• Joel 2:5

  Like the sound of chariots on the tops of the mountains they leap, like the sound of a flame of fire devouring stubble, like a mighty people arrayed for battle.

• Nahum 3:3

  horseman charging, and flame of sword, and lightning of spear, and a multitude of the pierced, and a mass of corpses, and there is no end to the bodies; they stumble over their bodies,

And 2 more times.