גַּחֶלֶת gechel

Hebrew word for “coal” · Strong’s H1513 · used 18 times in 18 verses

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Meaning

coal, burning coal, coals of fire, hot coals

How it is translated

Glosses given for gechel in context, with how often each is used:

• coals 9
• burning coals 6
• coal 1
• will be coal 1
• like coals 1

Where it is used

Chapters where it is used most

Psalms 18 (3), 2 Samuel 22 (2), Leviticus 16 (1), 2 Samuel 14 (1), Job 41 (1), Psalms 120 (1), Psalms 140 (1), Proverbs 6 (1), Proverbs 25 (1), Proverbs 26 (1)

Forms

• גחלים 5
• גחלי 4
• וגחלי 2
• גחלתי 1
• הגחלים 1
• לגחלים 1
• גחליו 1
• גחלת 1
• כגחלי 1
• גחליה 1

Words used with it

Words that share verses with gechel more often than their overall frequency would suggest:

• אֵשׁ esh “fire” 12
• בָּעַר baar “to burn” 4
• נֹגַהּ nogah “brightness” 3
• חֹפֶן chophen “palm” 2
• חָרַר charar “to scorch” 2
• נֶגֶד neged “before” 3
• חָמַם chamam “to warm” 2
• עָשָׁן ashan “smoke” 2
• בָּרָד barad “hail” 2
• פֶּה peh “lip” 3
• שָׂרַף saraph “to burn” 2
• נֶפֶשׁ nephesh “soul” 3

Key verses

The verses using gechel that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):

• Leviticus 16:12 — And he shall take a censer full of burning coals of fire from off the altar before the LORD, and his hands full of sweet incense beaten small, and bring it…
• 2 Samuel 22:9 — There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
• Psalms 18:8 — There went up a smoke out of his nostrils, and fire out of his mouth devoured: coals were kindled by it.
• Psalms 18:12 — At the brightness that was before him his thick clouds passed, hail stones and coals of fire.
• Psalms 18:13 — The LORD also thundered in the heavens, and the Highest gave his voice; hail stones and coals of fire.
• Psalms 120:4 — Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
• Psalms 140:10 — Let burning coals fall upon them: let them be cast into the fire; into deep pits, that they rise not up again.
• Isaiah 44:19 — And none considereth in his heart, neither is there knowledge nor understanding to say, I have burned part of it in the fire; yea, also I have baked bread upon…
• Isaiah 47:14 — Behold, they shall be as stubble; the fire shall burn them; they shall not deliver themselves from the power of the flame: there shall not be a coal to warm…
• Ezekiel 1:13 — As for the likeness of the living creatures, their appearance was like burning coals of fire, and like the appearance of lamps: it went up and down among the…
• Ezekiel 10:2 — And he spake unto the man clothed with linen, and said, Go in between the wheels, even under the cherub, and fill thine hand with coals of fire from between…
• Ezekiel 24:11 — Then set it empty upon the coals thereof, that the brass of it may be hot, and may burn, and that the filthiness of it may be molten in it, that the scum of it…

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Hebrew and Greek text, tagging, glosses and lexicon definitions: STEPBible.org, Tyndale House Cambridge (TAHOT, TAGNT, TBESH, TBESG; CC BY 4.0), adapted. Counts follow King James verse numbering; a word counts each time it is written.