Lahav לַ֫הַב
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| לַ֫הַב | |
|---|---|
| Transliteration | lahav |
| Strong's number | H3851 |
| Language | Hebrew |
| Part of speech | masculine noun |
| Gloss | flame |
| Occurrences | 12 in 10 verses |
| Most frequent in | Isaiah (4) |
Lahav (Hebrew לַ֫הַב, Strong's H3851) is a Hebrew masculine noun meaning “flame”. It occurs 12 times in 10 verses of the Old Testament.
Definition
1) flame, blade
1a) flame
1b) of flashing point of spear or blade of sword
1a) flame
1b) of flashing point of spear or blade of sword
From the STEPBible Brief Lexicon of Hebrew (based on the abridged Brown-Driver-Briggs), STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
Translated as
| KJV | flame (6), blade (2), flames (2), glittering (1), bright (1) |
|---|---|
| BSB | flame (4), flames (2), blade (1), it (1), along with a flashing (1), flushed (1), flashing (1) |
Verses
Every verse with Lahav, with the English words that translate it highlighted (KJV or BSB; other translations show the KJV here).
Judges
- Judges 3:22And the haft also went in after the blade; and the fat closed upon the blade, so that he could not draw the dagger out of his belly; and the dirt came out.Even the handle sank in after the blade, and Eglon’s fat closed in over it, so that Ehud did not withdraw the sword from his belly. And Eglon’s bowels emptied.
- Judges 13:20For it came to pass, when the flame went up toward heaven from off the altar, that the angel of the Lord ascended in the flame of the altar. And Manoah and his wife looked on it, and fell on their faces to the ground.When the flame went up from the altar to the sky, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame. When Manoah and his wife saw this, they fell facedown to the ground.
Job
- Job 39:23The quiver rattleth against him, the glittering spear and the shield.A quiver rattles at his side, along with a flashing spear and lance.
- Job 41:21His breath kindleth coals, and a flame goeth out of his mouth.His breath sets coals ablaze, and flames pour from his mouth.
Isaiah
- Isaiah 13:8And they shall be afraid: pangs and sorrows shall take hold of them; they shall be in pain as a woman that travaileth: they shall be amazed one at another; their faces shall be as flames.Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.
- Isaiah 29:6Thou shalt be visited of the Lord of hosts with thunder, and with earthquake, and great noise, with storm and tempest, and the flame of devouring fire.you will be visited by the LORD of Hosts with thunder and earthquake and loud noise, with windstorm and tempest and consuming flame of fire.
- Isaiah 30:30And the Lord shall cause his glorious voice to be heard, and shall shew the lighting down of his arm, with the indignation of his anger, and with the flame of a devouring fire, with scattering, and tempest, and hailstones.And 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.
- Isaiah 66:15For, behold, the Lord will come with fire, and with his chariots like a whirlwind, to render his anger with fury, and his rebuke with flames of fire.For 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.
Joel
- Joel 2:5Like the noise of chariots on the tops of mountains shall they leap, like the noise of a flame of fire that devoureth the stubble, as a strong people set in battle array.With a sound like that of chariots they bound over the mountaintops, like the crackling of fire consuming stubble, like a mighty army deployed for battle.
Nahum
- Nahum 3:3The horseman lifteth up both the bright sword and the glittering spear: and there is a multitude of slain, and a great number of carcases; and there is none end of their corpses; they stumble upon their corpses:Charging horseman, flashing sword, shining spear; heaps of slain, mounds of corpses, dead bodies without end— they stumble over their dead—
Notes
- Definition and verse list from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament (TAHOT) and Greek New Testament (TAGNT) and Brief Lexicons, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0.
- English renderings from the public-domain KJV with Strong's numbers (eBible.org) and the Berean Standard Bible interlinear (public domain).