שַׁלְהֶבֶת
shalhevet · flame
Hebrew word · Strong’s number H7957 · appears 3 times in the Bible
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shalhevet (שַׁלְהֶבֶת) is a Hebrew word of the Bible that means “flame”.
A flame, a blaze.
How to say it
shal·he·vet
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
- A rising tongue of a blaze.
From Brown-Driver-Briggs (1906)
How it is translated
The words this translation uses for it, most frequent first.
- flame ×2
- fire ×1
Related words
Comes from
Words of the same family, by Strong’s numbering.
Where it appears
- Job 15:30
He will not depart from darkness; the flame will dry up his shoot, and he will depart by the breath of his mouth.
- 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.
- 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.