לֶהָבָה lehavah
Hebrew word for “flame” · Strong’s H3852 · used 19 times in 19 verses
Meaning
1) flame; 2) tip of weapon, point, head of spear
How it is translated
Glosses given for lehavah in context, with how often each is used:
- flame 14
- flames 2
- blade 1
- like a flame 1
- will be a flame 1
Where it is used
| Book | Uses | Per 1,000 words | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Isaiah | 5 | 0.3 | |
| Psalms | 4 | 0.2 | |
| Joel | 2 | 2.1 | |
| Numbers | 1 | 0.1 | |
| 1 Samuel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Jeremiah | 1 | 0.0 | |
| Lamentations | 1 | 0.6 | |
| Ezekiel | 1 | 0.1 | |
| Daniel | 1 | 0.2 | |
| Hosea | 1 | 0.4 | |
| Obadiah | 1 | 3.4 |
Chapters where it is used most
Numbers 21 (1), 1 Samuel 17 (1), Psalms 29 (1), Psalms 83 (1), Psalms 105 (1), Psalms 106 (1), Isaiah 4 (1), Isaiah 5 (1), Isaiah 10 (1), Isaiah 43 (1)
Forms
- להבה 9
- ולהבה 3
- להבות 2
- ולהבת 1
- וכלהבה 1
- ללהבה 1
- להבת 1
- ובלהבה 1
Words used with it
Words that share verses with lehavah more often than their overall frequency would suggest:
- אֵשׁ esh “fire” 17
- בָּעַר baar “to burn” 6
- אָכַל akhal “to eat” 9
- לָהַט lahat “to kindle” 4
- קַשׁ qash “stubble” 3
- עֵץ ets “tree” 3
- סִיחוֹן sichon “Sihon” 2
- חֶשְׁבּוֹן cheshbon “Heshbon” 2
- יַעַר yaar “wood” 2
- קָדוֹשׁ qadosh “holy” 2
- מוֹאָב moav “Moab” 2
- לַיְלָה laylah “night” 2
Key verses
The verses using lehavah that are most connected by cross-references (King James Version):
- Numbers 21:28 — For there is a fire gone out of Heshbon, a flame from the city of Sihon: it hath consumed Ar of Moab, and the lords of the high places of Arnon.
- Isaiah 4:5 — And the LORD will create upon every dwelling place of mount Zion, and upon her assemblies, a cloud and smoke by day, and the shining of a flaming fire by…
- Isaiah 5:24 — Therefore as the fire devoureth the stubble, and the flame consumeth the chaff, so their root shall be as rottenness, and their blossom shall go up as dust:…
- Isaiah 10:17 — And the light of Israel shall be for a fire, and his Holy One for a flame: and it shall burn and devour his thorns and his briers in one day;
- Isaiah 43:2 — When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt…
- 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…
- Lamentations 2:3 — He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming…
- Ezekiel 20:47 — And say to the forest of the south, Hear the word of the LORD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will kindle a fire in thee, and it shall devour every green…
- Daniel 11:33 — And they that understand among the people shall instruct many: yet they shall fall by the sword, and by flame, by captivity, and by spoil, many days.
- Hosea 7:6 — For they have made ready their heart like an oven, whiles they lie in wait: their baker sleepeth all the night; in the morning it burneth as a flaming fire.
- Joel 2:3 — A fire devoureth before them; and behind them a flame burneth: the land is as the garden of Eden before them, and behind them a desolate wilderness; yea, and…
- Obadiah 1:18 — And the house of Jacob shall be a fire, and the house of Joseph a flame, and the house of Esau for stubble, and they shall kindle in them, and devour them; and…
See all 19 verses in the Word Atlas
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.