אֵשׁ (esh) means “fire” in the TBESH Hebrew lexicon from STEPBible.
Pronunciation guide: aysh Strong’s Hebrew pronunciation spelling.
אֵשׁ · esh · fire
1) fire 1a) fire, flames 1b) supernatural fire (accompanying theophany) 1c) fire (for cooking, roasting, parching) 1d) altar-fire 1e) God's anger (fig.) Aramaic equivalent: esh (אֶשָּׁא "fire" H0785)
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a primitive word; fire (literally or figuratively)
KJV glosses: burning, fiery, fire, flaming, hot.
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Counts below follow each translation’s tagged words. A rendering can cover a phrase. Differences in text editions and tagging can produce different totals.
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| fire | 55 |
| the fire | 48 |
| in the fire | 24 |
| a fire | 21 |
| of fire | 21 |
| and fire | 11 |
| with fire | 11 |
| like fire | 10 |
| by fire | 9 |
| into the fire | 5 |
| on fire | 5 |
| and the fire | 4 |
| may fire | 4 |
| the burning | 4 |
| for the fire | 3 |
| vvv | 3 |
| as fire | 2 |
| by the fire | 2 |
| fiery | 2 |
| is a fire | 2 |
| must be burned up | 2 |
| on the fire | 2 |
| over the fire | 2 |
| that the fire | 2 |
| the coals | 2 |
| the fiery | 2 |
| through the fire | 2 |
| to death | 2 |
| with the fire | 2 |
| a blazing fire | 1 |
| ablaze | 1 |
| and | 1 |
| and a fire | 1 |
| and a flaming | 1 |
| and fiery | 1 |
| and lightning | 1 |
| and may fire | 1 |
| and the lightning | 1 |
| are fiery | 1 |
| by a flame | 1 |
| even by the fire | 1 |
| flame | 1 |
| flash like fire | 1 |
| for fire | 1 |
| from the fire | 1 |
| in a fiery | 1 |
| in fire | 1 |
| in my burning | 1 |
| into flame | 1 |
| it | 1 |
| lightning | 1 |
| like a fire | 1 |
| like a flaming | 1 |
| like burning | 1 |
| like flaming | 1 |
| of burning | 1 |
| of glowing | 1 |
| of his fire | 1 |
| of the fire | 1 |
| of your fire | 1 |
| reserved from the fire | 1 |
| so a fire | 1 |
| so fire | 1 |
| so i made fire | 1 |
| the fire set | 1 |
| their fire | 1 |
| then fire | 1 |
| then the fire | 1 |
| then you must burn up | 1 |
| there was a fire | 1 |
| they will use them for fuel | 1 |
| through fire | 1 |
| to fuel the flames | 1 |
| to the fire | 1 |
| was like fire | 1 |
| when the fire | 1 |
| with a fiery | 1 |
| with lightning | 1 |
| with you inside | 1 |
| yet another fire | 1 |
| you have kindled | 1 |
| you must burn up | 1 |
| Rendering | Count |
|---|---|
| with fire | 58 |
| fire | 51 |
| of fire | 34 |
| the fire | 30 |
| a fire | 29 |
| in the fire | 17 |
| of the fire | 15 |
| on fire | 10 |
| and fire | 9 |
| and the fire | 9 |
| it with fire | 9 |
| like fire | 7 |
| into the fire | 6 |
| no fire | 4 |
| through the fire | 4 |
| as the fire | 3 |
| by fire | 3 |
| by the fire | 3 |
| on the fire | 3 |
| upon the fire | 3 |
| and a fire | 2 |
| he with fire | 2 |
| in fire | 2 |
| them with fire | 2 |
| to the fire | 2 |
| with the fire | 2 |
| a fiery | 1 |
| a hot | 1 |
| against thee in the fire | 1 |
| and a burning | 1 |
| and if not let fire | 1 |
| and let fire | 1 |
| and out of the fire | 1 |
| as a fire | 1 |
| as it were fire | 1 |
| because the fire | 1 |
| behold the fire | 1 |
| but a fire | 1 |
| but if not let fire | 1 |
| for a fire | 1 |
| for by fire | 1 |
| for the fire | 1 |
| for there is a fire | 1 |
| from the fire | 1 |
| how the fire | 1 |
| if fire | 1 |
| it in the fire | 1 |
| it into the fire | 1 |
| it on fire | 1 |
| let fire | 1 |
| like the burning of a fire | 1 |
| neither shall their fire | 1 |
| not for a fire | 1 |
| not in the fire | 1 |
| not the fire | 1 |
| of burning | 1 |
| of his fire | 1 |
| of them the fire | 1 |
| of your fire | 1 |
| out of the fire | 1 |
| over him with fire | 1 |
| shall be a fire | 1 |
| shall be for a fire | 1 |
| so a fire | 1 |
| surely in the fire | 1 |
| that the fire | 1 |
| them as a fiery | 1 |
| them in the fire | 1 |
| them with the fire | 1 |
| then let fire | 1 |
| then the fire | 1 |
| there shall the fire | 1 |
| therefore as the fire | 1 |
| thereof shall a fire | 1 |
| thereof with fire | 1 |
| thou the fire | 1 |
| through fire | 1 |
| to fire | 1 |
| unto the fire | 1 |
| upon it in fire | 1 |
| upon thee with fire | 1 |
| upon you in the fire | 1 |
| what time the fire | 1 |
| when the fire | 1 |
| which the fire | 1 |
| with flaming | 1 |
| yea the fire | 1 |
Page 5 of 7. 348 verses in the selected STEP text, printed below in BSB where available. Read each verse in its chapter to follow the author’s thought.
A worthless man digs up evil, and his speech is like a scorching fire.
Read word by wordWithout wood, a fire goes out; without gossip, a conflict ceases.
Read word by wordLike charcoal for embers and wood for fire, so is a quarrelsome man for kindling strife.
Read word by wordSheol, the barren womb, land never satisfied with water, and fire that never says, ‘Enough!’
Read word by wordSet 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.
Read word by wordYour land is desolate; your cities are burned with fire. Foreigners devour your fields before you—a desolation demolished by strangers.
Read word by wordThen the LORD will create over all of Mount Zion and over her assemblies a cloud of smoke by day and a glowing flame of fire by night. For over all the glory there will be a canopy,
Read word by wordTherefore, as a tongue of fire consumes the straw, and as dry grass shrivels in the flame, so their roots will decay and their blossoms will blow away like dust; for they have rejected the instruction of the LORD of Hosts and despised the word of the Holy One of Israel.
Read word by wordFor every trampling boot of battle and every garment rolled in blood will be burned as fuel for the fire.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.4
For wickedness burns like a fire that consumes the thorns and briers and kindles the forest thickets, which roll upward in billows of smoke.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.17
By the wrath of the LORD of Hosts the land is scorched, and the people are fuel for the fire. No man even spares his brother.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 9.18
Therefore the Lord GOD of Hosts will send a wasting disease among Assyria’s stout warriors, and under his pomp will be kindled a fire like a burning flame.
Read word by wordAnd the Light of Israel will become a fire, and its Holy One a flame. In a single day it will burn and devour Assyria’s thorns and thistles.
Read word by wordO LORD, Your hand is upraised, but they do not see it. They will see Your zeal for Your people and be put to shame. The fire set for Your enemies will consume them!
Read word by wordyou will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.
Read word by wordIt will break in pieces like a potter’s jar, shattered so that no fragment can be found. Not a shard will be found in the dust large enough to scoop the coals from a hearth or to skim the water from a cistern.”
Read word by wordBehold, the Name of the LORD comes from afar, with burning anger and dense smoke. His lips are full of fury, and His tongue is like a consuming fire.
Read word by wordAnd the LORD will cause His majestic voice to be heard and His mighty arm to be revealed, striking in angry wrath with a flame of consuming fire, and with cloudburst, storm, and hailstones.
Read word by wordFor Topheth has long been prepared; it has been made ready for the king. Its funeral pyre is deep and wide, with plenty of fire and wood. The breath of the LORD, like a torrent of burning sulfur, sets it ablaze.
Read word by wordYou conceive chaff; you give birth to stubble. Your breath is a fire that will consume you.
Read word by wordThe peoples will be burned to ashes, like thorns cut down and set ablaze.
Read word by wordThe sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”
Read word by wordThey have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands.
Read word by wordWhen you pass through the waters, I will be with you; and when you go through the rivers, they will not overwhelm you. When you walk through the fire, you will not be scorched; the flames will not set you ablaze.
Read word by wordHe burns half of it in the fire, and he roasts meat on that half. He eats the roast and is satisfied. Indeed, he warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.”
Read word by wordAnd no one considers in his heart, no one has the knowledge or insight to say, “I burned half of it in the fire, and I baked bread on its coals; I roasted meat and I ate. Shall I make something detestable with the rest of it? Shall I bow down to a block of wood?”
Read word by wordSurely they are like stubble; the fire will burn them up. They cannot deliver themselves from the power of the flame. There will be no coals to warm them or fire to sit beside.
Read word by wordBehold, all you who kindle a fire, who array yourselves with firebrands, walk in the light of your fire and of the firebrands you have lit! This is what you will receive from My hand: You will lie down in a place of torment.
Read word by wordBehold, I have created the craftsman who fans the coals into flame and forges a weapon fit for its task; and I have created the destroyer to wreak havoc.
Read word by wordas fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence!
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.1
Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins.
Read word by wordSource alternate reference: 64.10
They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
Read word by wordFor behold, the LORD will come with fire—His chariots are like a whirlwind—to execute His anger with fury and His rebuke with flames of fire.
Read word by wordFor by fire and by His sword, the LORD will execute judgment on all flesh, and many will be slain by the LORD.
Read word by word“As they go forth, they will see the corpses of the men who have rebelled against Me; for their worm will never die, their fire will never be quenched, and they will be a horror to all mankind.”
Read word by wordCircumcise yourselves to the LORD, and remove the foreskins of your hearts, O men of Judah and people of Jerusalem. Otherwise, My wrath will break out like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it, because of your evil deeds.”
Read word by wordTherefore this is what the LORD God of Hosts says: “Because you have spoken this word, I will make My words a fire in your mouth and this people the wood it consumes.
Read word by wordThe bellows blow fiercely, blasting away the lead with fire. The refining proceeds in vain, for the wicked are not purged.
Read word by wordThe sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
Read word by wordThey have built the high places of Topheth in the Valley of Ben-hinnom so they could burn their sons and daughters in the fire—something I never commanded, nor did it even enter My mind.
Read word by wordThe LORD once called you a flourishing olive tree, beautiful with well-formed fruit. But with a mighty roar He will set it on fire, and its branches will be consumed.
Read word by wordThen I will enslave you to your enemies in a land you do not know, for My anger will kindle a fire that will burn against you.”
Read word by wordAnd you yourself will relinquish the inheritance that I gave you. I will enslave you to your enemies in a land that you do not know, for you have kindled My anger; it will burn forever.”
Read word by wordBut if you do not listen to Me to keep the Sabbath day holy by not carrying a load while entering the gates of Jerusalem on the Sabbath day, then I will kindle an unquenchable fire in its gates to consume the citadels of Jerusalem.’”
Read word by wordThey have built high places to Baal on which to burn their children in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I never commanded or mentioned, nor did it even enter My mind.
Read word by wordIf I say, “I will not mention Him or speak any more in His name,” His message becomes a fire burning in my heart, shut up in my bones, and I become weary of holding it in, and I cannot prevail.
Read word by wordFor I have set My face against this city to bring disaster and not good, declares the LORD. It will be delivered into the hand of the king of Babylon, who will destroy it with fire.’
Read word by wordO house of David, this is what the LORD says: ‘Administer justice every morning, and rescue the victim of robbery from the hand of his oppressor, or My wrath will go forth like fire and burn with no one to extinguish it because of their evil deeds.
Read word by wordI will punish you as your deeds deserve, declares the LORD. I will kindle a fire in your forest that will consume everything around you.’”
Read word by wordI will appoint destroyers against you, each man with his weapons, and they will cut down the choicest of your cedars and throw them into the fire.
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