lehava · flame

What it means

lehava (לֶהָבָה) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flame”.

A tongue of fire.

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 as it burns.
2. The head of a spear.

From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)

How it is translated

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

• flame ×14
• flaming ×3
• flames ×1
• point ×1

Related words

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

Where it appears

• Numbers×1
• 1 Samuel×1
• Psalms×4
• Isaiah×5
• Jeremiah×1
• Lamentations×1
• Ezekiel×1
• Daniel×1
• Hosea×1
• Joel×2
• Obadiah×1

• Numbers 21:28

  For fire went out from Heshbon, a flame from the town of Sihon; it consumed Ar of Moab, the lords of the high places of the Arnon.

• 1 Samuel 17:7

  The shaft of his spear was like a beam of weavers, and the point of his spear weighed six hundred shekels of iron; and the one who carried the shield was going before him.

• Psalms 29:7

  The voice of YHWH hews flames of fire.

• Psalms 83:14

  Like fire that burns the forest, and like a flame that sets ablaze the mountains,

• Psalms 105:32

  He gave hail for their rain, flaming fire in their land.

• Psalms 106:18

  And a fire blazed in their company; a flame burned up the wicked.

• Isaiah 4:5

  And YHWH will create over the whole site of Mount Zion and over her convocations a cloud by day and smoke and the brightness of a flaming fire by night; for over all the glory there will be a canopy.

• Isaiah 5:24

  Therefore, as a tongue of fire devours stubble, and dry grass sinks down in the flame, their root will be like rot, and their blossom will go up like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of YHWH Tsevaot and spurned the saying of the Holy One of Israel.

• Isaiah 10:17

  And the light of Israel will become a fire, and his Holy One a flame; and it will burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day.

• Isaiah 43:2

  When you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and through the rivers, they will not sweep you away; when you walk through fire, you will not be burned, and the flame will not burn against you.

• Isaiah 47:14

  Look, they are like stubble; fire burns them; they will not deliver their soul from the hand of the flame; there is no coal for warming oneself, no fire to sit before.

• Jeremiah 48:45

  In the shadow of Heshbon the fugitives stood without strength; for fire went out from Heshbon, and a flame from the midst of Sihon, and it consumed the temple of Moab and the crown of the sons of tumult.

• Lamentations 2:3

  He has cut off in burning anger every horn of Israel; he has turned back his right hand before the enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a fire of flame that devours all around.

• Ezekiel 20:47

  And say to the forest of the Negev, ‘Hear the word of YHWH: Thus says Adonai YHWH: Look, I am kindling in you a fire, and it will consume in you every green tree and every dry tree; the flame of fire will not be quenched, and all faces will be scorched by it, from the Negev to the north.

• Daniel 11:33

  And the insightful among the people will give understanding to the many; but they will stumble by the sword and by flame, by captivity and by plunder, for some days.

• Hosea 7:6

  For they have brought near their heart like an oven in their plotting; all night their baker sleeps; in the morning it burns like a flaming fire.

• Joel 1:19

  To you, YHWH, I cry, for fire has devoured the pastures of the wilderness, and flame has scorched all the trees of the field.

• Joel 2:3

  Before it fire devours, and behind it flame blazes; like the garden of Eden is the land before it, and behind it a desolate wilderness; and nothing escapes it.

• Obadiah 1:18

  And the house of Jacob will be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau stubble; and they will burn among them and consume them, and there will not be a survivor of the house of Esau, for YHWH has spoken.